Love Kuching Project is a community cat rescue group that focuses on loving the cats in our lives and neighbourhoods.
By joining Love Kuching Project, you’ll be part of a volunteer community that we feel really connected to – a warm and welcoming space, where we empower the people around us to be the best that they can be.
We are run by volunteers with portfolios, who assist with team-specific roles in one or more of eight teams:
- Foster Care
- Rescue
- Outreach
- FLOAT (Facilities Management, Legal, Operations, Accounts, Tech)
- Events
- Fundraising
- Marketing
- Human Resources
Not all our positions are open – some may be closed, so if you’re interested to join a particular team, you can check back with us once in a while to see if suitable positions are open for you!
Find out more about our portfolios – and how to join us – below!
“I needed something to call my own — I was dedicating too much time to just professional practice and school and needed something more personal to feel more fulfilled.”
– Jialin, HR volunteer
“I joined Love Kuching because I was struggling a little with life… Cleaning out litterboxes became a super consistent and important ritual for me to do, and I’d feel in control again while juggling six dirty litterboxes, a shower hose and lots of fresh pine litter.”
– Deborah, volunteer with Fundraising and Foster Care
“The vibe is different here… people are engaged, involved — open, relatable, fun and not intimidating.”
– Joh Ju, Events Manager
“I joined Love Kuching because I was struggling a little with life… Cleaning out litterboxes became a super consistent and important ritual for me to do, and I’d feel in control again while juggling six dirty litterboxes, a shower hose and lots of fresh pine litter.”
– Deborah, volunteer with Fundraising and Foster Care
Volunteers less than 18 years old who wish to join us in a team-specific role for more than three months will have to submit a parent consent form, which can be downloaded here.
Click here to find out more about age limits for each particular team and why we have set them.
Our Foster Care team is the bread and butter of Love Kuching Project! They form the biggest group of volunteers in LKP and they look after our sick or injured cats and kittens in the cattery by administering clinical treatments and medications, preparing food and supplements, and maintaining cleanliness of the cat suites and litter boxes. These skills will require initial training sessions, and continual learning and development.
Apart from looking after sick and injured cats, we also need assistants that can help us keep track of our shelter paperwork (like patient one-sheets) as well as compile and craft slides for our training curriculum, sharing sessions and Masterclasses.
You will need to be older than 16 to join the Foster Care team as a volunteer with portfolio.
If you’re younger than 16, you can join us as ad-hoc service learning or Play/Clean volunteers. Volunteers younger than 12 will have to be accompanied with a parent.
Sorry, but there are no positions available in this team at the moment.
Please try another volunteer team above!
As Love Kuching Project is a very small shelter, foster caregivers are important in helping us in our mission to care for sick and injured community cats and kittens. On average, Love Kuching Project can only take in one to two injured or sick cats per month, and without foster caregivers like you, we would have to reject these cases.
Volunteer foster caregivers will be asked to help board a cat (or a litter of kittens) until Love Kuching has space for them in our cattery.
You need to be older than 21 to become a fosterer under our Foster Network.
Outreach volunteers handle our feline-assisted activity programmes with volunteer welfare organisations, where we bring the love of cats to humans that need it.
Volunteers with Outreach help facilitate activity like grooming, playing, and dialogue, which provide relaxation, physical comfort and assist in physical healing for people who need it most.
You will need to be older than 17 to join the Outreach team as a volunteer with portfolio. Volunteers who are younger than 18 will also need to submit a parent consent form. Find out more here.
Sorry, but there are no positions available in this team at the moment.
Please try another volunteer team above!
The FLOAT team is a wide-ranging crew in charge of miscellaneous support roles for Love Kuching Project. It consists of five different portfolios:
- Facilities management volunteers in charge of the maintenance, upgrade and improvement of our cattery’s general facilities – the air quality management system like the air purifier and aircon, plumbing and fridge, shelves, storage and furniture.
- Legal volunteers in charge of researching statues and drafting simple agreements. You’ll be working with management and leadership as well as our accounting and admin volunteers in ramping up our corporate governance and transparency.
- Accounting and admin volunteers with the basic knowledge of financial statements are in charge with filing and basic paperwork.
- Technology volunteers are in charge of helping us bring the cattery forward towards digitised systems, enhancing security so we are compliant with laws like the PDPA.
You will need to be older than 16 to join the FLOAT team as a volunteer with portfolio. Volunteers who are younger than 18 will also need to submit a parent consent form.
Depending on the role you will take, volunteers in the FLOAT team will have to fulfil certain requirements. Find out more here.
Sorry, but there are no positions available in this team at the moment.
Please try another volunteer team above!
As a Marketing team volunteer, you’ll work to support other teams in Love Kuching Project by creating content that would help with goals like adoption, fundraising and recruitment.
You’ll also help manage Love Kuching Project’s social media accounts, be it creating social media content (writing tweets or filming Instagram stories), writing social media posts, responding to social media queries (on Facebook and Instagram) and growing our online audience. In addition, you’ll help manage our website, updating dynamic sections like our Adopt-A-Cage page and Pawsome Bulletin Board!
You’ll usually be able to work remotely, but will also be asked to be available to attend monthly meetings. You’ll also need to help attend events for Instagram and Facebook live broadcasts.
You will need to be older than 16 to join the Marketing team as a volunteer with portfolio. Volunteers who are younger than 18 will also need to submit a parent consent form. Find out more here.
Sorry, but there are no positions available in this team at the moment.
Please try another volunteer team above!
Our Events Team are volunteers who are involved in every aspect of event management – from planning to execution of all events involving Love Kuching Project. These events include our own pop-up events, events conducted in partnership with other organisations, pet events or adoption drives in malls or housing estates.
You’ll be working closely with other Love Kuching Project volunteers in Marketing and Fundraising to conceptualise, plan and manage all events; you’ll also be a liaison with vendors and corporate sponsors (if any), and be in charge of transport and logistics with vendors, organisers and other partners, as well as LKP volunteers who may be helping out.
You will need to be older than 14 to join the Events team as a volunteer with portfolio. Volunteers who are younger than 18 will also need to submit a parent consent form. Find out more here.
Sorry, but there are no positions available in this team at the moment.
Please try another volunteer team above!
The fundraising team is a group of young, cheerful and forward-looking individuals who want to improve the lives of the injured or chronically ill community cats under Love Kuching Project’s care.
We help to raise funds so that Love Kuching Project can continue to pay the rent, vet bills, food and supplements, litter and various supplies.
If you love working with people who want to do their part to bring warm and love to injured and chronically ill cats in our community, join us! Our work is mostly remote – you don’t have to pop into our cattery if you’re unable to, but we may hold meetings from time to time that you will have to attend.
Read on to find out how you can help as a Fundraising volunteer:
You will need to be older than 14 to join the Fundraising team as a volunteer with portfolio. Volunteers who are younger than 18 will also need to submit a parent consent form. Find out more here.
Sorry, but there are no positions available in this team at the moment.
Please try another volunteer team above!
Fundraising appeals
You’ll get to work on campaigns and programmes for various needs ranging from the usual appeal for food and litter supplies to specific emergency cases. This will include setting up the mechanics of fundraising campaigns, creating blog and social media posts, and responding to requests for acknowledgements of cat angels’ gifts of love to us.
Sponsor-A-Cage program
This is a program for cat angels who make monthly donations to support a cat at the cattery! You will liaise with these cat angels and keep updated on the cats of their choice every month.
Merchandise partners
You’ll be the first point of liaison with businesses who are happy to support Love Kuching Project and to contribute to our cause.
We chat with them about their work, discuss ideas for fundraising and put the plans into place. We’ve been really blessed to meet with the wonderful people behind some of Singapore’s best small businesses like Goood Pet Collars, Polypet, White Feather Handmade Jewellery and Yarn Over Flowers.
We’d love to connect with more merch partners, but will need your help to do so!
Fundraising events
A few times a year, Love Kuching Project gets invited to community events at housing estates or malls. Our vollies take turns to be at the booth to meet with visitors.
At least once a year, Love Kuching Project organises our own pop-up events involving our merch partners and our therapy cats to meet with cat angels who have been supportive of our cause or just to bring awareness to more people about what we do.
You’ll help with organising these events, to coordinate with our merchandise partners, and bring our cats to these events so people get to see what we do.
Rescue volunteers follow up with the rescue requests that the public has submitted to us via our website, which will feed to our team Slack channels and private Trello board.
Volunteers will need to do liaison and work assisting rescuers remotely in their free time. However, they will also need to meet rescuers at the vet to administer the Rescue Assistance Programme, for rescuers who cannot afford to pay for the vet fees, but are able to foster a sick or injured community cat in their own home. Our vets have two branches – both in the east and west of Singapore, so visits can be done to the rescuer or volunteer’s convenience!
You need to be older than 18 to join the Rescue team as a volunteer with portfolio.
Sorry, but there are no positions available in this team at the moment.
Please try another volunteer team above!
The Human Resources team was named so as we value the people at Love Kuching as much as the cats that we serve. We see volunteers as more than just volunteers – they are part of our community, and part of our family.
As a Human Resources volunteer, your purpose is to build and protect Love Kuching Project’s community values and culture, because it is unique and special to us. HR volunteers are in charge or recruitment of new volunteers, integration of new volunteers and administrative support for other teams at LKP.
HR team members also care for the humans at Love Kuching Project through organising events for the volunteers, giving volunteers appreciation gifts, encouraging self-care and care for one another through our #volliecare Slack channel.
Sorry, but there are no positions available in this team at the moment.
Please try another volunteer team above!
You will need to be older than 16 to join the Human Resources team as a volunteer with portfolio. Volunteers who are younger than 18 will also need to submit a parent consent form. Find out more here.
Frequently asked questions
What does Love Kuching Project look for in a volunteer?
We are interested in people who are:
- Open to learning new things
- Seeking personal growth and meaning through volunteering
- Works well in teams
- Cares about humans, too – not just cats
- Able to commit to task and job requirements (per the job role you are applying for)
That’s about it! Apart from technical and professional skills, what we really care about in volunteers can be really distilled to attitude and availability. We can teach you everything that we know.
What kind of training or qualifications do I need to volunteer?
Not much! While skill sets will be helpful for volunteers with portfolio who fill team-specific roles (like videographers in Marketing, accountants and administrative assistants in FLOAT and vet nurses in Foster Care), we offer basic training, resources and guides to people who do not have relevant qualifications.
Your skills and occupation does not necessarily determine what you can do for us, too – we have journalists who help out as Rescue coordinators, and engineers and illustrators who work as Foster Care volunteers.
Do note that some teams like Foster Care and Rescue will require you to attend on-the-job training sessions (regardless of existing skill sets), and you will need to be available for them.
I can't volunteer on a long-term basis. How else can I help?
There are other opportunities for volunteers to join us on a short-term basis, to see what volunteering for Love Kuching Project would be like!
You can join Play/Clean sessions by visiting our Play/Clean page and filling up the Play/Clean form to get an available ad-hoc volunteering slot.
If you are a student and wish to join us as part of a self-initiated Values-in-Action programme or Community Involvement Programme, visit our CIP page here.
Still feel like you might be unable to help? Consider making a donation here!