It's about Volunteers!

The Festival is organized by dedicated community volunteers and representatives from dozens of organizations in London and Middlesex County.

The Festival needs approximately 125 volunteers every day during the event for tasks such as:

• Festival set up or take down
• Interpreting activity stations*
• Volunteer registration
• Parking vehicles and buses
• Greeting students and teachers upon arrival
• Managing the lunch hour for our volunteers
• Grounds and facilities maintenance
• Supervising bus departure

*Please note that a minimum of one day’s commitment (8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.) is required for all activity station volunteers.

If you volunteer during the Festival, you will receive:

• Free lunch the day(s) you are volunteering
• Free t-shirt to wear at the Festival, so you can be identified as a volunteer

The Festival is outdoors, rain or shine. Most volunteers will be on their feet, so be prepared with comfortable footwear and appropriate clothing that you don’t mind getting dirty or wet. Volunteers should be16 years of age or older.

To volunteer, please complete the Volunteer Application/Informed Consent Agreement and mail, email or fax it to the Water Festival Coordinator.

The Water Festival Organizing Committee will contact you prior to the Festival to confirm dates, time and tasks, and will provide an information manual.

If you would like more information, the Organizing Committee would be pleased to provide a presentation for your group.

For more information, to request a presentation, or to volunteer please contact the Festival Coordinator.

It's a Community Effort!

The London-Middlesex Children's Water Festival is organized by a dedicated group of individuals and organizations from London and Middlesex County.  The following organizations are helping plan this year’s Festival:

• CAW Local 1520
• Catholic Central High School
• City of London
• Dillon Consulting
• Fanshawe Pioneer Village
• Friends of Pittock
• Friends of the Coves Subwatershed Inc.
• Kettle Creek Conservation Authority
• Lake Huron and Elgin Area Water Supply System
• London and District Labour Council
• London Regional Children’s Museum
• London YMCA
• Middlesex Cattlemen
• Middlesex London Health Unit
• Ontario Federation of Agriculture
• Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
• Ontario Ministry of the Environment
• Ontario Pork Producers
• Thames Valley District School Board
• Upper Thames River Conservation Authority
• Waste Free World