Raise money for your organization or group: 

Looking for a fun and easy fundraiser? Volunteer at our Smithfield VA Events festivals!

Your organization provides volunteers. We take care of planning and running the festival. After the event, we total the hours your members volunteered and make a donation back to your organization based on those hours.

Organizations of all sizes are welcome! Whether your group has 4 volunteers or 40, we’d love to work with you!

We do give priority to organizations that benefit the Smithfield and Isle of Wight communities, but to fill all of the jobs, we also partner with many charitable and service organizations throughout the region.

Who Can Participate?
  • Charitable and non-profit organizations
  • Civic and service organizations
  • Youth groups
  • School organizations
  • Churches
  • Businesses with charitable foundations or community initiatives
How does it work?  
Get started by sending our Volunteer Coordinator an email at [email protected]
Charitable, Non-profit or Service Organizations or Businesses with a charitable foundation or initiative that want to raise money for their cause need to  pre-register with us and provide us a Group Leader. Your Group Leader works with our Volunteer Coordinator well in advance of a festival to coordinate your groups spots.  It takes over 350 volunteers to put on one of our festivals, so whether you have a large or small organization, we can help you raise some money! 

Group leaders are responsible for passing along info & getting their members signed up by the deadline. They need to have general knowledge of what the jobs are for your group's assigned spots and ensuring that the folks signing up are able to perform the jobs they sign up for. We will train & work with new Group Leaders to ensure you understand how it all works and the jobs that are assigned to your group. 

When is it time for a festival, your organization is assigned jobs or "spots" to fill.  We use a on-line program that your members will click on, type in your org's code and then they can see the spots assigned to your group and sign up for a specific job. 

​There is a deadline to sign up and if you don't fill all your spots, they are given to other groups. Once you know sign-ups are "live" you can go sign up anytime. 

Then show up for your shift, sign in/out on your org's sign-in sheet.  

After an event is over, the hours worked by your group are totaled and we make a donation to your organization, usually about $10-$12 per hour depending on the financial success of the festival.

​Most jobs are during a festival but there are some that happen pre & post festival and then early in the morning on fest day, (LIKE COOKING BACON, or putting out Tableclothes...) Some organizations work a specific task, like the gate, while others have a variety of jobs that might be beer pouring, logistics, checkpoints, bacon cooking, bourbon pouring, wine tent, t-shirt sales, trash, volunteer check in, food serving, cooking oysters, or taking care of our sponsors.