Volunteer

Join the Open Streets Hamilton team!  

Click here to submit your volunteer application form for our June 2013 event!

Join us as a volunteer at Open Streets Hamilton!

Open Streets Hamilton is a community-based partnership dedicated to promoting active, healthy, and inclusive lifestyles by temporarily transforming streets into a shared space for everyone to experience.

Open Streets Hamilton events include up to 2 kilometers of car-free roads for pedestrians, cyclists, scooters, skateboards, wheelchairs, and more! Open Streets Hamilton and its sponsors are engaging even more of Hamilton each year through free, family-friendly activity!

Open Streets Hamilton is now in the midst of planning its fourth consecutive year as a series of events promoting active transportation, healthy living, and bringing Hamilton’s communities together.

The Open Streets Hamilton Event Planning Committee is now seeking help in the following areas:

Looking for help with:

Programming & Activities – contacting groups who can bring programming to the street

    • send initial email – follow up by phone
    • get application completed
    • get additional information once committee has approved their programming
    • work with Volunteers & Fundraising team to ensure enough support for programming providers

Street Logistics – street layout/design

  • come up with design for the street/programming
  • work with Programming & Activities team to pick good spots
  • ensure all amenities/services are booked and well placed
    • water
    • EMS/First Aid
    • Toilets (must be accessible)
    • Waste

Volunteers & Fundraising – coordinating volunteers and fundraising efforts

  • work with Communications & Outreach team to ensure enough support for upcoming promotional events
  • coordinate fundraising efforts (t-shirt sales, coffee sales, button sales, other fundraising ideas)
  • review volunteer training (add sections if needed) – Volunteer Training Session May 30th
  • schedule and manage volunteers on event day

Communications & Outreach

  • create outreach materials needed (print, online, signage, etc.) for all groups
  • book tables/promotional opportunities at events/locations across the city (and outside Hamilton)
  • write and/or review external communications for all teams
  • manage outreach along event route and at promotional events

  • Media & Sponsorship

    • manage social media, website updates, develop marketing plan
    • write and/or review press releases, send out to media list
    • work with Communications & Outreach team to ensure sponsorship logos are included where appropriate on all materials
    • ensure all aspects of sponsorship package are delivered
    • schedule and manage media on event day

  • Reporting & Evaluation

    • develop list of metrics to use as evaluation for event (attendance, number of programming providers, etc)
    • work with Media & Sponsorship team to ensure post-event sponsor reports are produced
    • conduct evaluation at event

  • Administration & Finances

    • develop and update databases (contacts, confirmed programming, confirmed volunteers, etc.)
    • write and circulate meeting minutes
    • keep updated records of fundraising results (donations/sponsorships received, pending, product remaining etc.)
    • track expenses (paid, pending, balance available/owing)
    • work with Street & Logistics team to ensure all necessary permits are filed on time

For more information, please visit our website at www.openstreetshamilton.ca or call 905-481-0809 to leave a message for one of our volunteers!

Open Streets Hamilton: Make the Streets your Playground.