Be a volunteer
CLICK HERE for specific Volunteer Roles needed.
Our Festival Volunteers work primarily providing excellent customer service throughout the site. Over the festival weekend, we need volunteers for 3 major areas:
- Saturday 12h00-15h00 : set-up of major festival and race areas – dragonboats, tents, tables, benches, signs
- Sunday 16h00-18h30: clear-up of festival and race areas – removal of dragonboats, tents, tables, benches, signs
- Sunday 09h00-17h00: help with the working of various festival and race areas
Festival Volunteer duties include:
- greeting race participants and festival attendees as they arrive and directing where necessary
- selling merchandise
- boat marshalling i.e. aiding loading and unloading of dragonboats
- participant registration
- volunteer registration
- assisting with the children’s dragonboat races
- preparing and serving volunteer food
- coordinate rubbish and recycling
- helping to set up and run various activities, such as children’s crafts and face painting
A smaller number help us before the festival with leadership activities such as organisation, administrative, coordination, and social media.
- leadership roles organising the festival
- coordinating teams of participants from their enrolment through to race day
- organising teams of volunteers
- organising programs such as those for children or adult paddlers
- working with our Sponsors
- maintaining accounts
If you are interesting in becoming a volunteer, please fill out the details below: