Volunteer

  • The Festival relies heavily upon the involvement and support of the local community and businesses. Volunteers carry out the mammoth task of organising such an event. This task becomes more challenging each year as the event grows in size and popularity.
  • Now in its nineteenth year, the Festival is a regular feature on the Tuggeranong social calendar. It is an occasion that involves approximately thirty plus events and includes some fifty organizations.

The Tuggeranong Festival has a direct involvement in organising the following events and activities:

The Brindabella Ball

  • Saturday Arvo “Youth Fest”
  • The children’s and main concerts
  • Sunday in the Park family fun day
  • The Great Carp Catch fishing competition; and
  • The fireworks spectacular

Indirectly

  • Lake Tuggeranong Sailing Regatta
  • Photographic competition
  • Aquathon
  • Kids Corner
  • Yacht Races

Volunteer Management

Volunteer policy

  • TuggFest values highly the knowledge and skills that volunteers bring to our organisation. We encourage the participation of all individuals and community groups to pass on their skills, knowledge and experience for the betterment for the entire community.
  • In return, TuggFest provides opportunities for volunteers to acquire new skills, particularly in relation to the planning, co-ordination and implementing the Festival program.

Volunteer recruitment

  • TuggFest holds quarterly ‘volunteer drives’ at suburban shopping centers to promote the spirit of Bringing the Community Together, disseminate literature about the festival and its sponsors, and generally raise community awareness.
  • Our vision is also communicated via our extensive media network that includes the print and radios that to a lesser degree local television. These mediums publicise details of public meetings, forthcoming events and activities, and invite individuals and groups to contact us.
  • Throughout the year, TuggFest mails directly to sporting groups, schools, ethnic and community groups, special interest groups and churches encouraging their involvement in developing the program content.

Volunteer education and training, and supervision

  • TuggFest is conscious of the wealth of experience volunteers bring to our organisation, and as such, we are keen to recricipate. New volunteers a paired to a ‘mentor’ who has a number of years experience and knowledge of the Festival activities – organising events (including planning, community and media liaison), raising sponsorship, attending to the organisation’s financial and administrative functions, program development, public speaking and letter writing.
  • Volunteers are encouraged to acquire new skills and confidence in managing the many Festival activities at there own pace.

Volunteer recognition

TuggFest’s volunteers are recognised:

  • each year in the President’s Annual Report tabled at the Annual General Meeting. The report is also sent to all sponsors and distributed to community groups for their information;
  • in the past, a volunteer received one of the Community Awards sponsored by Rotary Club of Tuggeranong for community service and more recently, a long standing volunteer received an Order of Australia (OAM) in this year’s Queen Birthday Honours List.
Sponsors for 2009