Volunteering: Both Christmas concerts

There are various roles we're hoping people will volunteer to help out with. Details of each are below. In order to keep things as simple as possible, we'd like anyone volunteering to do the same role in both concerts, so please only volunteer if you're taking part in both the Friday and Saturday events. Please also sign up to sing in the concerts first - signing up to volunteer DOESN'T add you to the list for singing, so you need to do each one as a separate booking.

Introducing songs

You'll write an introduction to one of the available songs, send it to us on admin@newhorizonchoir.co.uk, then read it to the audience in both concerts. See our Forum post for more information about the kind of thing you could include in your introduction. When booking your volunteering spot, please select "Introducing: {Song name}" from the list of options. Bear in mind that not all songs are available to be introduced by a singer - a few will be introduced by Tim, as part of his job as host for the concert.

Seat labelling

It's not a glamourous job, but a necessary one! As we'll be selling allocated seats for the concerts, every chair will need a seat number sticking to it, and every row will need a row label at each end. If you volunteer to help us with this, you'll be attaching these labels before the audience arrive on the Friday, and removing them after the audience leave on the Saturday. You'll need to arrive fairly early on the Friday, and be prepared to leave a little later on the Saturday.

Ticket checking

Using a specific app on your mobile phone, you'll scan audience members' tickets when they arrive, and direct them towards the auditorium. You'll need to be welcoming, helpful, and reasonably confident with technology - plus willing to use your phone to do the scanning. Tim or Toni will be on hand most of the time, so if issues arise that you can't quickly resolve, you'll be able to hand over to us. You'll need to arrive a little earlier than the rest of the choir, so you're all set up before we open the doors to the audience.

Stewards

As audience members arrive in the auditorium, you'll help them find their allocated seat, let them know where the toilets are, etc. You'll need to arrive a little earlier than the rest of the choir, so you're all set up before we open the doors to the audience.

Refreshments

We'll be serving tea, coffee, squash and biscuits in the restaurant during the interval of both concerts. You'll be responsible for making the refreshments and serving them, under Toni's guidance. You'll need to arrive fairly early to get everything set up, and ideally be prepared to stay a little later after both concerts to get things cleared up too.