Volunteer

Marlene Barry — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 05:18:59 +0000

Sooke Region Museum

Duration:

Long-term, Ongoing (6+ months)

Dates:

Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Suitability:

All

Position Title:

Event Assistance & Planning

Area of Interest:

Museums & Heritage

Sooke Region Museum!

The museum is still looking for volunteers during Covid . There are many opportunties to help out.

No way would the Sooke Region Museum be able to accomplish so much without the hundreds of volunteers who continue to lend a hand in such a variety of ways.

Whether it’s helping to staff the museum’s Gift Shop, the school program, helping organize special events, Open House, Snowman Building contests, serving at salmon barbecues, contributing musical performances, building exhibits, working at special fund-raising events, research projects, weeding the gardens, selling raffle tickets, cleaning the lens, proofreading, stuffing envelopes, and much more, volunteers have a great time working together. Typically, Volunteers, Staff and Board members all get together to celebrate a sense of accomplishment and camaraderie with a potluck party in late August.

The volunteer work of today follows on the heels of the incredible dedication of the Sooke Lions Club and the Sooke Community Association in getting the museum established in the first place. Back in the mid-1970s it was the wonderful spirit and hard work of the Sooke Lions that initated the project, and it was the generosity and community spirit of the volunteers of Sooke Community Association that provided the property where it could be built. It is because of these groups and many others that have joined in to support the Sooke Region Historical Society, that the museum has become a cornerstone of community life.

If you’ve got a bit of spare time and energy that you might like to offer, please give us a call at (250) 642-6351, or drop by to chat with us.

Volunteer Application Form

http://www.sookeregionmuseum.ca/wp-content/uploads/Volunteer_Application...

Contact person:

Sooke Region Museum

Phone:

250–642-6351

Email:

[email protected]">[email protected]

Required Skills:

please contact them directly

Applicable interests:

please contact them directly

Location:

2070 Phillips Rd

Sooke, BC V9Z 0Y3

Canada

Varied Positions Available

Marlene Barry — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 23:12:29 +0000

Sooke Fall Fair

Duration:

Long-term, Ongoing (6+ months)

Dates:

Thursday, February 13, 2020

Suitability:

All

Position Title:

All

Area of Interest:

Animal Services & Welfare

Arts & Culture

Children & Youth

Community & Multicultural

Education & Literacy

Emergency Services

Environment & Conservation

Health & Wellness

Museums & Heritage

New Citizens & Immigrants

Seniors & Elders

Special Events & Festivals

Sports & Recreation

Sooke Fall Fair has volunteers who assist with a variety of programs. They serve breakfast and lunch at Seedy Saturday in February, July's car show, a market the last Saturday in August and September, and their main event the Sooke Fall Fair the first Saturday after Labor day, as well as the Christmas craft fair in November.

This year's theme at the Sooke Fall Fair 2019 is "Rooted in Tradition". This will bring many opportunities to folks to engage at the Fair. Traditionally we have sewed, knitted, felted our own clothing, preserved our foods for the winters, created amazing art through dark winters and lazy summer days. We grew flowers as well as vegetables and our families would brag about who's was bigger and better and farmers vied for the best bull or cow to earn their bragging rights. The Fairs became the place for us all to bring our bragging rights and a healthy competition ensured. Fairs go back hundreds of years and serve as our roots and encourage us to grow, bake, sew, or raise the best bird and thus provide us with better food, clothes, art, animals and more. Writing has always been and is still so appreciated and it just may have started with a short story or a poem, submitted to a fair and grew to the wonderful books we read today to impact knowledge and entertainment.

Perhaps this will encourage you to become a part of our fair to continue on a wonderful tradition. We are in need of a section head for our animal section. We meet once a month to share ideas and to work together to fundraise to keep our fair finances in a health state. If you can give some time to a worthy cause as the Sooke Fall Fair, now celebrating it's 106 year in Sooke, we welcome you. Please call 250-812-2830 and ask for Ellen. All help is appreciated. We value our volunteers!

Contact person:

Ellen Lewers

Phone:

250-812-2830

Email:

[email protected]">[email protected]

Required Skills:

Some skills needed for some positions. Plenty of opportunities for varied to no skills.

Applicable interests:

All

Location:

2037 Shields Rd

Sooke, BC V9Z 0S9

Canada

Sooke Region Resources - Museums & Heritage

Volunteer

Varied Positions Available