MJOC Volunteer Projects

Our club has been involved ion many volunteer activities since the very early years of the club. We have been involved in bushfire relief with Blaze Aid and many track clearing and bush clean ups activities supporting Four Wheel Drive Victoria and Government Land managers such as Parks Victoria and DELWP.

Activities have included -

Emergency relief for farmers delivering water and supplies

Fence rebuilding with Blaze Aid

Community assistance at Narbieview Wildlife Shelter
High Country Huts Maintenance

Track Clearing

Bush Clean Ups

Fire damage rubbish cleanup and community work

Many other bushfire relief activities.

We continue to do volunteer work in rural communities. Please contact us if you are aware of any activities we could be involved with.

Member Stewardship

Our Volunteer Projects team is lead by Rob Sharp who coordinates our volunteer or stewardship activities.

Our stewardship is important for showing that we care about local regional communities and our volunteer work is giving back to the local people that live and work in the regions we travel.

Our volunteer hours are recorded and become part of the massive volunteer work that many other four wheel drive clubs are involved with through Four Wheel Drive Victoria.

Our volunteer hours contributed to aver 16,000 volunteer hours that FWDV clubs completed in the last 2 years.

Narbeview Wildlife Shelter

The Narbieview Wildlife Shelter at Buxton is a not for profit self funded wildlife shelter on the Maroondah Hwy at Buxton in Victoria and the Melbourne jeep Owners Club are proud to be involved in supporting the shelter with working bees and fundraising.

The club regularly has volunteer members visiting the shelter to help with cleaning, feeding and maintenance. Visit the Narbieview Wildlife Shelter website for more details, help is welcome at any time.

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MJOC Hut Maintenace 15 Mile Hut History

Since 2016 – in conjunction with the Victorian High Country Huts Association and DELWP, MJOC has been maintaining Keppel’s Hut near Marysville – we have been doing 6 to 12 month visits to, cut grass, fill the wood bin, lime the toilet and clean and stock the hut itself. So now we manage Keppel’s hut, 15 Mile Hut and Ryan’s Spur Hut. These are all in the Marysville hut zone and the only ones left due to others being destroyed by vandals or fire.

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FWDV Volunteer Hours Collection

Four Wheel Drive Victoria continues to develop strong relationships with the government and its land managers and has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the state government, Parks Victoria and the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) to ensure effective consultation and involvement in track access and maintenance issues. This has created a much stronger working relationship with land managers and rangers.

To further support this the affiliated clubs provide thousands of hours of volunteer work from track clearing, bush clean ups, camp hosts and many other activities. The hours worked are collated and go towards the annual tally of hours that go to build strong relationships and support from the Government bodies.

Other volunteer activities can include High Country Huts maintenance and emergency relief support with Blaze Aid.

As a club our hours are collected and sent to Four Wheel Drib=v Victoria to be included in the statewide tally.

Any time that members spend on any of these activities are importantly entered into the Data Collection Form below and emailed through to FWDV..

Even activities that are done on club trips such as clearing tress from tracks or spending time cleaning up a campsite etc should be added to this collection.

Trip Leaders are encouraged to participate in this by completion of the Data Collection form and sending it to FWDV.