Olives to Oil Volunteering

Olives to Oil Festival Event Volunteers

Background:

CERES Olives to Oil is an annual community festival bringing people together to celebrate the importance of local food in our communities as well as recognising the wonderful heritage of diverse food cultures we enjoy. We also encourage people to harvest unused olives from backyard or neighbourhood trees and bring them to us as part of the community olive oil pressing. Once pressed into oil, this is given back to those who contributed.

Volunteering Objectives: To support the Festival team with distributing olive oil to participants.

Location: 
CERES Fair Food Warehouse, Preston

Specific Tasks and Duties:
Welcoming people and directing them 
Bottling olive oil and giving it to people who register to collect it
Helping to pack down the event at the end

Benefits:
Receive a bottle of delicious olive oil
Be part of local food-systems work in action
Be part of a vibrant, local food-focussed community event
Help turn otherwise-wasted olives into delicious local olive oil
Meet like-minded individuals

Training: Induction will be provided on the day you volunteer