Brum BiFest Volunteering Details

Staffing the registration desk

• What skills do you need?
• Ability to handle taking £5 and £3 entry fees and giving small amounts of change and a receipt on request or stamping attenders' hands..
• Being welcoming to people registering, giving them appropriate BiFest info booklets.
• Point people at the programme if they're unsure of what's happening when they arrive.
• Be able to call an organiser to provide assistance if anything complex comes up - contact info will be provided.
• Who do we need and when?
• Two people at a time to do slots of an hour at a time on the desk any time between 10:30 and 20:30.
• Rota will be staggered so one desk person changes every half an hour.
• If you're nervous or shy we can rota you for a quieter desk time or with a friendly experienced desk volunteer.
• We'll almost certainly have an opportunity for people to sign up for desk volunteering at BiFest itself, so it's never too late to sign up.

Set-up and decoration of the Warehouse

• Putting up A4 and A3 posters with blutac/pins onto appropriate walls and room dividers.
• Folding or cutting up various papery things (string, scissors, tape,)

Food

• We may be providing picnic food during BiFest and would like some volunteers to help set this up.
• Watching a hot water urn and getting it refilled when it becomes empty (handling hot water).
• Carrying food between ABplus's kitchen and the Warehouse area of the venue.
• Cleaning up after food has been eaten, filling and emptying a dishwasher and putting items back in cupboards.
• It is likely you will need to be physically able to do this.

Take-down and clearup of the Warehouse

• Moving furniture and chairs back to original places
• Removing all our posters etc as neatly as possible.
• Tidying up food remains, possibly vacuuming or sweeping venue space

Moving furniture (tables, chairs and room dividers)

• What skills do you need?
• You will need to be able to lift tables with another volunteer or chairs by yourself without causing yourself pain or damage.
• We won't ask you to lift excessive amounts, mostly shared moving of room dividers, tables and chairs.
• When will we need furniture moved?
• If you are available on Fri 20th Nov in the evening your help may be very helpful.
• Throughout the day at BiFest we may need things moving and will shout out for volunteers.
• After 19:30 as BiFest closes up and ends we will need help clearing The Warehouse back to the state we found it.

First Aider

• If anyone has a current first aid qualification, we would be keen to hear from you if you could act as a volunteer first aider to BiFest attenders - please get in touch on info@brum.bifest.org

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