Plantastic Events | Podcast

Let’s talk about festival volunteers. In this episode, you’ll get a chance to meet Uta Colwell from the National Banana Pudding Festival. She’ll talk about how she manages over 150 volunteers for the festival and how you can do the same. Uta is the volunteer manager at the National Banana Pudding Festival. Not only is she a volunteer for the festival but she manages and coordinates volunteers for the festival. She has worked with National Pudding Festival since 2010! The National Banana Pudding Festival has won the SFEA Best Festival Award and has been named a Southeast Tourism Society Top 20 Event. Hot topics for episode 31: How to manage and coordinate volunteers during, before and after your festival What are some the essential roles to set up for volunteers How to partner with local organizations to recruit volunteers How to set up shift slots for volunteers based on the different roles Produced by Stoogeapp.com. Topics include: festivals, bananas, cook-offs, volunteers, events, foodies, training, non-p