Volunteer
Big Bear Events cannot happen without the help of a dedicated bunch of awesome volunteers. Big Bear Events is really just me - Paul! I organise everything and do all the work before race day but there is no way events like ours can happen without a small dedicated team of top notch volunteers on race day. If you’ve been to our events before you may notice many familiar faces - Ann and Dave have volunteered at every event (thanks mum and dad!) and a handful of others have volunteered multiple times.
As much as we need top notch brilliant volunteers the job isn’t difficult either! If you can smile and be helpful your 95% of the the way there! I wont ask you to stand on an outpost for 6 hours in the rain, that’s a promise! Our runners are appreciative rather than demanding and even the serious ones focussed on every second are incredibly grateful. They might just wait until after to say thank you!
So if you are looking for a nice day out in a beautiful setting while filling your running karma bucket to the brim read on. I’ve put a “typical day” piece together here. I put requests for help out in our volunteer Facebook group normally. Joining is no obligation to volunteer though - I appreciate midweek events can be tricky to run at, let alone volunteer! If you aren’t on Facebook just send me an email. I’ve tried to add as much information as possible but if you have any more queries send me an email I’m happy to answer anything not in the Volunteer FAQ’s.
Thanks,
Paul
6 Hour and 10K events
Volunteers who help us all day at our 6hr and 10K events get...
Credit on your account equivalent of the race entry (to be used at any future event)
£20 voucher off trainers at Coventry Runner
Tasty Big Bear drink and flapjack at the end
Lunch (not just the aid station food but you’re free to have some of that too of course!)
Treated like heroes all day from all the runners (and us!)
Running karma and a little glow on the inside!
Parking fees paid for the day
If you want to run on the day you could even volunteer for set-up/pack down and run the other half of the day? If your other half/ parent etc. is going to support why not make them help and get you a free spot (they could sneak you an extra Jaffa Cake on each lap!).
If you’re able to help for part of the day then we’ll happily say thank you with free parking, a drink and flapjack - just let us know!
For our evening 10k evening events we're looking for specific tail runners too - run the distance and get a free entry!
Please check the dates and locations on the event page and let us know when you could help here
TrailFest
We massively appreciate all help be it for 5 minutes or the whole day. Without your kindness, time and altruism events like this just could not happen. Please understand we are all incredibly thankful! For these event we require a lot more volunteers per runner than at our other events, some for relatively short periods of time. There are some volunteer blocks that are important but only last an hour but there are others that are just as important and last 8 hours, it seems fair the reward is slightly different. So…
Everyone who volunteers with us will get
A huge thank you, love and appreciation from us and all of the runners (this is guaranteed!)
Running karma from the running gods (money can’t buy this!)
A slice of Rugby Real Bread flapjack
Your choice of Big Bear drink
£20 Coventry Runner voucher off your next trainers
In addition…
We’ll give you credit equivalent to the time you’ve helped, help for 25% of the day, we’ll add 25% of the ticket value, help for most of the day we’ll give you 100% of the ticket value.
To be clear - it’s not meant to be a cost saving exercise but just a way to acknowledge those who give us more time. We aren’t going to be standing their with stopwatches!!
We can’t emphasise enough how thankful and important your help is. If you are able to help please get in contact here.
