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  • Home
  • Opening Hours
  • Bar & Restaurant
    • Lunch Menu
    • Evening Menu
    • Event & Themed Menus
    • Book a Table
    • Venue Hire
  • Join the RFYC
    • A History of the RFYC
    • How to Join
    • Past Admirals and Commodores
    • Reciprocal Clubs
  • Club Calendar
  • Visiting Our Club
    • Ashore >
      • Club Officers
      • Sub Committee
      • Save the Date
    • Afloat >
      • Cruisers >
        • Cruising
        • Small Boats Section >
          • SBS Practice Rules
      • BOATS FOR SALE
      • Sailing Events
      • Regatta
      • Club Racing >
        • Dinghies
        • Troys
        • T12
        • Fowey Rivers
        • Virtual Regatta
        • Dragonflite
      • Sailing Facilities >
        • Life Rings
        • Frape
    • Latest News
  • Contact Us
    • Recruitment
    • Useful lInks
    • Have your Say
  • Members Area
    • Merchandise
    • Photo Galleries >
      • Members Travels
      • Tour of RFYC Facilities
      • Fowey River Championships
      • Art Exhibition >
        • Merchandise Size Chart
      • Helen Mary R.
      • Social Gallery
      • Summer Party 2024
      • Bar and Restaurant Gallery
      • Racing Gallery
      • Cruising Gallery
      • Cruise in Company Gallery
      • Troy Fleet Gallery
      • RWYC Triangle Race
      • Ballad Gallery
      • Sail Past
      • POW 2022 Gallery
      • Pontoon
      • Coronation Buffet
      • Regatta Gallery
    • Water Matters Memb >
      • Boats and Owners
    • Volunteering
  • WebCams
  • Try a Troy Day 2025

 Volunteering Opportunities >

Set out below is a list, that whilst not exhaustive, covers many of the jobs carried out by volunteers and illustrates the diversity and importance of volunteering at the club.

Ashore

General Club Activity Support & Maintenance
  • Awning - erecting/removing/maintaining
  • Club flowerpots - planting, maintaining, clearing
  • Restaurant flowers (team)
  • Small maintenance jobs e.g. terrace tables 
  • Offering storage for some items
  • Dump runs
  • Managing club prizes and trophies
  • The website – update and manage
  • Social media – promote the club
  • AV equipment – know how if works and run as necessary e.g. for sports, films etc
  • Help behind the bar e.g. during welcome hour
  • Help with restaurant service
  • Ordering and selling club merchandise
  • Photographs and calendar 
Professional Support/Advice
  • Interior design
  • Legal expertise
  • HR expertise
  • Accounting
  • Strategic planning
  • Catering and hospitality expertise

On the Water

Regatta Tasks
  • Organising regatta helpers
  • Entrant administration 
  • Race recording
  • Results 
  • Coordinate prizes and trophies
  • Tally Boat
  • Loan of Committee Boat
  • Committee Boat helpers
  • Safety Boat crews
  • Loan of rib
  • Ferryboat person/boat and crew
  • Three shifts of volunteers in the Clubhouse to help with service/tidying
  • Serve on Protest Committee
  • Laying and retrieving marks and tackles
Water & Boats (managed by the Sailing Committee)
  • Pontoon - putting out and removing 
  • Laying up club boats
  • Fitting out Club boats and race equipment 
  • Looking after Club dinghy and Frape
  • Boat Store, dinghy racks and engine store - administering waiting lists and billing
POFROC TASKS
  • Race officer
  • Race recorder
  • Cox and crew of Club Tender
  • Results 
​Please complete the form below if you are interested in finding out more.  Jeff Pitt, our Volunteer Coordinator, will contact you in the first instance to chat about your interests, thereafter passing on your details as appropriate, (notably to Rear Commodore – Sailing for all water-based activities, where there might be training/certification requirements).

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