Happy National Volunteer Week

Thank you for your support of our Volunteer Friends of Uplands Park Society.

We greatly appreciate the many ways that our members volunteer:   helping to restore Uplands Park and other natural areas in Oak Bay, stopping by to appreciate those that are able to do this, helping with our educational and celebration events, becoming educated and teaching others about these natural areas, being inspired and creating art, music and written works that will inspire others, and encouraging others in many ways to become stewards of our Greater Victoria Naturehood.

Please let others know that they can become a member of FRIENDS OF UPLANDS PARK for FREE.

Putting up posters this week

Soliciting local business asap for donations of food, drinks or prizes…letters are already written

Picking up donations before the event and also the morning of the event and delivering them

Picking up 3 tents at Thrifty’s Hillside by 9 am April 28, delivering them to our area, and then returning them about 4pm.

Putting out signs around the area from Cattle Pt to Willows Beach

Setting up the event starting at 10 am April 28 – tents, tables, chairs, displays, signs

Helping the 12 organizations set up their displays from 10 am

Supervising and setting up the main Information Table and displays from 10 to 3 pm or part of that time

Supervising the Food and Drinks, and Recycling from 10 to 3pm or part of that time

Organizing and preparing the food – cutting vegetables, fruits, cheese etc

Supervising a children’s area

Welcoming people, letting them know about the Wildflower walks and where the artists are painting and encouraging people to become FOUP members, to donate to FOUP and to enter for prizes.