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Volunteers are key to making community events run smoothly and provide a warm local welcome for many people coming along from outside of our region.
If you're interested in volunteering, please send fill out our online "Volunteer Local" form. If you are having difficulty with the form please email Volunteer@wheelsatwanaka.co.nz
You don’t need to be into cars, truck or machines to get involved - we also need the assistance of awesome, helpful, energetic and friendly people over the two event days, as well set up and pack down. Simply fill out our online form.
Each volunteer will receive a Wheels at Wanaka T-Shirt or cap and a 3-day pass to the show. We’ll also provide you with shelter, food and drink whilst you’re onsite. You'll get safety and how-to briefings and training where your role requires. Plus a Thank you Pizza evening on Sunday in the Tractor Shed.
We do ask our volunteers to be available for a minimum of 4 hours per day that they're available to volunteer. Ideally 2 to 3 days minimum.
To register an interest, let us know your skills, and how you can help - click on the link above to register as a Volunteer. We will then allocate you to a role and shifts for you to consider and approve or discuss further.
PLEASE NOTE: Qualified Machine Operators will be selected by the Earthmoving Committee, based on previous years involvement with Wheels at Wanaka in the same role (and/or you are a registered owner-operator with your own machine in the pit)
if you'd like to be a general volunteer and help with setting up, administration, gate management, driving our courtesy busses, stage hands and/or packing down the show, then click the button below:
If you're keen to volunteer please fill our our Volunteer Local online form. Let us know what you'd like to help with or what your skills are best utilised towards and we will come back to you with a confirmation followed by a role that you could consider.
In the mean time, if you've any queries regarding our volunteer roles please send an email to Volunteer@wheelsatwanaka.co.nz
Tractor Drivers available for more than 2 days can apply to be volunteer drivers here.
if you'd like to be a general volunteer and help with setting up, administration, gate management, driving our courtesy busses, stage hands and/or packing down the show, then click the button below:
If you're a qualified and experienced Earthmoving Machine Operators and would like to participate in the Terra Cat Earthmoving Pit, you will need to answer the questions within the Volunteer form regarding your experience driving machines.
Please note previous volunteer operators from 2023 will be selected first and then new operators considered by the Earthmoving Committee (due to Health & Safety plus the age of the vintage machines - committee have a strict selection criteria).
NOT A MACHINE OPERATOR, but still want to be involved with the BIG Machines? Just select Earthmoving Zone as a preference as we need gate keepers, crowd control and trade strand facilitators for this area.
Are you an experienced earthmoving machine operator? Are you licensed with plenty of experience, then you're welcome to register as a graders, bulldozer, moto-scrapers or dump truck driver. If you'd like to be part of Wheels and you've got the skills, click the button below:
If you are a volunteer and you'd like to camp on site with your self-contained camper or caravan for the duration of Wheels, we have arranged a free camping option. Please include your need for a site on the online volunteer local form.
Learn more about camping at Wheels at Wanaka.
Any queries about volunteers, their duties, timings and conditions, please contact us at the email below:
The Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 can be found here: https://www.worksafe.govt.nz/laws-and-regulations/acts/hswa/
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