Seven jobs that need doing
Not "get involved". Actual jobs, with hours, so you can tell in ten seconds whether one of them is you.
The jobs
Pick one
On-ice volunteer
Camp days, 8:00 to 3:00
Skate with a group under the coaching staff. You need to be able to skate. You do not need to have played, and you do not need to know any drills.
Put me down for thisGear fitting volunteer
One morning, 7:30 to 11:00
Measure children and fit equipment. This is the single most useful three hours anybody gives us and it needs no hockey knowledge at all.
Put me down for thisRegistration desk
One hour a day, 7:45 to 8:45
Tick names off, check families in, hand out name tags, point families at the stands. Good if you are calm with people.
Put me down for thisLunch and logistics
Two hours over lunch
Set up, hand out, clear away. Unglamorous, essential, and the part campers remember as the loud bit.
Put me down for thisPhotographer
As long as you like
We publish real photographs and we credit every one. If you shoot, we want you. Consent rules apply and we will brief you on them.
Put me down for thisTranslator
An hour, from home
Help us write to a family in their own language. Any language spoken in Toronto is useful and this can be done entirely by email.
Put me down for thisHeadquarters Team
A few hours a week in term
Join the twenty member Headquarters Team. With the founder and an adult administration team, and overseen by the board, it makes sure every Open Ice chapter across Ontario runs to the Open Ice standard and runs the flagship camps in Toronto. You learn budgeting, logistics, partnerships and leadership by doing them. Roles open ahead of each cycle and volunteering at a camp is the usual route in.
Put me down for thisThe wall
Everyone who has given their time to Open Ice.
If your name should be here and is not, tell us and we will fix it in a day.
Not sure
Come and watch one
You are welcome to come to a camp, stand at the boards for an hour and see what it is. Nobody will make you commit to anything.