Volunteer Opportunities
Perform in Perth requires a steward for their festival in March 2026.
This vital festival role encompasses several tasks.
- Welcoming and registering participants
- Selling admission tickets and a variety of merchandise.
- Usher: ensuring that audience members don't enter during a performance and helping them to find a seat.
- Clerking for an adjudicator.
- Organising participants, so that they are ready to perform in the correct order.
If interested, please get in touch with Eileen Waterston at perthcompfest@hotmail.com or 07849745000 before 15th February 2026.
Website
http://perthshire-music-festival.org.uk
Facebook
https://facebook.com/performinperth
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/performperth/
We are looking for an organised and detail-oriented individual to support the administration of applications for our annual festival.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collate all online applications and transfer data into a spreadsheet
- Summarise expected payments, reconcile against Treasurer’s records, and confirm all entries are fully paid
- Check for and resolve duplicate applications
- Ensure all required PDF copies of music are submitted; track and follow up on missing files
- Prepare and manipulate spreadsheet data into the correct format for programme planning
- Collate, check, and rename PDF music files for distribution to accompanists.
Requirements:
- Strong skills in Excel skills, knowledge of Google Forms and WordPress forms
- High attention to detail and accuracy
- Good organisational and communication skills
- Ability to work quickly and meet agreed deadlines.
About the Festival:
- A small, friendly, annual festival featuring Vocal, Piano & Guitar classes
- Held once per year, typically with around 100 applications and 150 entries.
For more information or to register interest please contact burtonvocalfestival@gmail.com or call 07881 821367.
Dates needed: From 1st November 2025
We are looking for someone to take over the role of Public Secretary. The key responsibilities are:
- Maintenance and updates to the website and posts to social media
- Assist with sourcing potential sponsorship
- Assist with leaflet creation via CANVA
We are a relatively small festival, running one day per year for Vocal, Piano & Guitar classes.
We hold our meetings via Zoom and the successful candidate would not necessarily be required to live local to the Festival.
For further information or to register interest please contact burtonvocalfestival@gmail.com or call 07881 821367.
Dates needed: Immediately
The Harrogate Competitive Festival for Music, Speech & Drama urgently needs someone to take over as Secretary, following the retirement through illness of Linda Wilson. This is a voluntary position but expenses can be reimbursed.
The main responsibilities currently include:
- liaison with the Federation and attendance at regional and national meetings;
- arranging Committee meetings & preparing the minutes of those; -
- arranging the AGM and preparing the minutes of that;
- booking adjudicators (issuing letters of engagement and contracts etc keeping three years in advance);
- the ongoing management of the adjudicator panels (keeping them up to date about the Syllabus Programme etc);
- the preparation of the outer pages of both the Syllabus and the Programme (everything except for the sections containing the actual classes);
- attendance at all the festival sessions in March & being the first point of contact for people with queries.
Please contact Alan Connell at treasurer@hcfmsd.co.uk