Volunteer Roles

General team members will help out with everything the festival needs to run! Reporting to the Lead Volunteer, they will be responsible for all general tasks, including helping to set up and pack away events, check tickets, and assist customers, authors, speakers and venue staff with requests. 

Some of our events use projectors and speakers. Tech support volunteers will assist with ensuring that all of the technology needed during events is set up correctly and assist with any issues which come up during the events. 

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We have 20 authors, illustrators, workshop providers and storytellers coming to Canterbury over the festival weekend. Speaker support volunteers will assist with picking up speakers from the train station, and getting them to where they need to be during the festival weekend. 

If you’d like to volunteer but you don’t necessarily want to be customer facing, our backstage volunteers will assist with set up and clearing away of events, and support the team and speakers by making sure water, tea and coffee are available and resources for events are available.