The Gumeracha Medieval Fair is organised and managed by a committee of local Torrens Valley people; they volunteer many hours towards this great Fair.
Interested in Volunteering? Please fill out and return our
2012 expression of interest pdf form  (98kb)
Over a period of 4 days, we have a team of over 100 enthusiastic volunteers from local and surrounding areas that assist with staging this fantastic weekend event.
During the weekend of the Medieval Fair our volunteers work in the following areas:
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Ticket Booths: selling tickets
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Manning Entry Gates: checking tickets of patrons entering the Fair, giving pass out stamps and checking wrist bands.
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Surveys: asking patrons to fill in surveys and then collecting them.
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Information Tent: includes answering questions and retail sales etc.
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Traffic Management: checking passes, traffic marshals, directing car parking.
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Runners: delivering messages, helping to troubleshoot any problems that may arise.
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Medieval Feast: set-up the hall, clean-up/washing-up duties on the night of the feast.
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Musicians Assistant: help musicians/entertainment, moving equipment.
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Costume Competition: help organise and run the Medieval Fair Costume Competition.
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Set-up/Pack-up: We particularly value and need volunteers who can help set-up for the Fair on the Friday beforehand, and/or help dismantle the event on Sunday after 4pm and help clean-up the park on the Monday following the Fair.
Volunteers are provided with lunch, snacks, tea, coffee and water on the days which they volunteer.
Net Profit from the Fair is divided by the total volunteer hours worked, allowing you to choose which not-for-profit organisation your volunteers hours go towards, or alternatively allocate them back to the Medieval Fair to help improve the Fair even more next year.
Volunteers are given a Certificate of Appreciation at a special thankyou afternoon tea held on Monday 11th June 2012 at 1.30pm for a 2pm start.
In June at the Volunteer’s Thank You Luncheon we were able to disperse $10,000 back into the community to the following Community Groups:
GROUP |
MEMBERS |
AMOUNT |
Birdwood High School |
1 |
$ 43.80 |
Cancer Care |
1 |
128.65 |
Connecting Spirits (Birdwood High) |
1 |
87.60 |
Deaf Can Do |
1 |
87.60 |
Gumeracha & District History Centre |
1 |
298.80 |
Gumeracha CFS Brigade |
13 |
859.57 |
Gumeracha District Memorial Hospital |
3 |
324.85 |
Gumeracha Medieval Fair Inc. |
16 |
2,420.96 |
Hahndorf Interim Animal Shelter Inc. |
3 |
244.55 |
Heart Kids |
17 |
821.25 |
Heart Foundation |
1 |
40.15 |
Hills Volunteering |
1 |
29.20 |
Holden Hills Police Cadets |
15 |
980.00 |
Lenswood Oval Committee |
1 |
128.65 |
Mt. Torrens C.F.S. |
17 |
381.80 |
Paracombe C.F.S. |
1 |
76.65 |
Scout Shouts Theatre Group |
8 |
317.55 |
Society for Creative Anachronism |
5 |
182.50 |
Silver Blades |
1 |
89.42 |
Southern Barossa Child Care |
2 |
94.90 |
Torrens Valley Lions Club |
12 |
1,671.70 |
Tungkillo Progress Association |
1 |
124.10 |
Williamstown C.F.S. |
3 |
536.55 |
X-box in the Hills (XitH) |
1 |
29.20 |
TOTALS |
136 |
$ 10,000.00 |
I would like to sincerely thank all of the volunteers who came and gave of their time and energy to help their Groups and the Gumeracha community. Rosanne Novia-Walsh was our Volunteer Co-ordinator and she and our Treasurer Angela Earl and Julie Nemet managed the volunteers. Thanks to them for all the extra hours of work they did. Thank you also to Angela, Jill and Vicki and the Event Management Students from the Mt. Barker TAFE College and to Carol and Keith Valentine for sourcing the prizes for the Medieval Costume Competition.
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