Call for volunteers

22 Jun

Hello Save the Preston Market supporters!

Curious about volunteering and working with us? We are a team of volunteers protecting our great community asset and the unique culture of our area. We all know that the Preston Market is more than a market. It is a community centre, a space of shared history, heritage, inclusion and the nucleus of our community.

We have a number of volunteer roles on with differing levels of time commitment so take a look below at the 7 ways you can get involved. If one or more of these roles suit you, please reach out to the contact details given.

Role 1: Contacting community organisations for support i.e sports clubs, multicultural groups, community organisations, schools, faith groups.

Do you have connections to local community organisations/groups/clubs? Maybe your kids are involved in sport or guides? Or your family is connected to a faith group? We’d love your support to reach out to various groups and organisations in Darebin and beyond! The aim is to ask for their support as a demonstration of their commitment to saving our market.

This would involve committing to a category of community orgs and supporting our team to research/call/email them and requesting to various levels of commitment such as displaying their name on our website, asking if we can contribute to newsletters, speaking at meetings or joining us at community events.

We’ll support you with detailed instructions and templates etc

Kathy 0457 794 845 or email STPMVolunteers@gmail.com

Role 2: Support Hands Around Our Market Day.

Still a work in progress but we are planning a day to collectively show some love for our market and literally wrap ourselves around her on August 12! We’re looking for musicians, street performers and marshals. Know anyone?

Call Kathy 0457 794 845 or email STPMVolunteers@gmail.com

Keen to letterbox drop our flyers (from July) around our neighbourhoods to tell the whole community to join us for Hands Around Our Market??

Please call Jenny on 0413 859 049 or jsmh261@gmail.com

Role 3: Support our information stall at the market.

We are always on the hunt for supporters to join us at our stall on the Murray Road side of Centrelink.

We are looking for volunteers to chat with shoppers, hand out information (such as myths and facts flyer) and answer questions. There’s always a STPM team member on site.

Do you speak a community language? We’d love to hear from you!!

Please call Jenny on 0413 859 049 or jsmh261@gmail.com

Role 4: Media support!

Our team member Quinn is seeking support to create a media list and engage with all types of media.

Do you have connections with the media or have time to help research??

Please contact Quinn via email dearquinn@protonmail.com

Role 5: Seeking a STPM champion/ambassador.

Do you have connections to the entertainment industry? Could you spare some time to try to contact any cooks, chefs, media personalities, health, arts, music personalities. We need a public figure to help raise awareness.

Kathy 0457 794 845 or email STPMVolunteers@gmail.com

Role 6: Film Clips (family friendly)

Fancy yourself a video clip maker? Love your Tik Tok??

Then grab your phone and tell us why the market is important to you. Get your kids, grandchildren, parents, school, club, street or even pets involved and send us your clip and we can pop it on our socials!

Who knows….you could become a local celebrity!

Kathy 0457 794 845 or email STPMVolunteers@gmail.com

Role 7: Sign Writers (family friendly)

Write your favourite catch phrase on some cardboard and walk around the market while you shop to raise awareness of the threat to our market. Stick the sign in your street facing window or bring it along to our next community day.

Get your kids to help!

Catch phrases for signs: