We’re always on the look-out for new volunteers. People with specific skills and general volunteers who can turn their hand to most things. We understand you may be cautious about making a commitment. You might be concerned about how much time you’ve got to give and taking too much on. Even so, if the idea of volunteering with us appeals to you, don’t worry. There are plenty of discrete tasks without a massive time commitment where your input, experience and expertise could be massively helpful.
Join our small team. Here are some of the roles we’d love to fill – lead coordinator for individual programme activities, volunteer coordinator, link person for each venue (St Peter and St Paul Church, Baptist Chapel, St Paul’s School and 501 Gin Bar which will become Shepton Snowdrops Festival HQ ). There are more!
We’re also looking for people to help plant snowdrop bulbs each autumn, and help out at the Festival itself. Please register with us if you would like to be involved. We would love to hear from you.
Here are a few comments made by current volunteers:
“I was delighted by the swathes of snowdrops visiting Shepton before we moved here so it was great this year to be involved in making it happen – planting bulbs by the roadside and in planters for the town and stewarding at the festival.” – Jane
“I have loved snowdrops since I was a child, when my mother would send moss-lined tins of snowdrops to the London Grannies for their birthdays in February. I was pleased when I was invited to volunteer to help with the Snowdrop Festival, through contacts in the Horticultural Society. Whilst it involves some physical work, it’s been a joy: planting snowdrops in the rain, looking after stands at sales, guiding people towards the sometimes unlikely places where snowdrops can now be found around the town. Being able to enjoy the longer-term rewards of returning to perhaps a churchyard or factory site, where we planted bulbs several years ago and can now see the snowdrops becoming established in more natural clumps, makes it all worthwhile. I have enjoyed working with a wide variety of volunteers, young and old, all with the common aim of making our town more beautiful and remembering the man who started it all.” – Rosanne