Thanksgiving Back - Volunteer Sign Up

Complete a volunteer shift with one of our registered projects and we'll cover your accommodation!

Discover a more meaningful way to travel and connect with the Revelstoke community by playing a hands-on role in helping our local non-profits maintain our amazing destination. As a thank you for your help, we'll reimburse up to $400 of your accommodation expenses.

Come for the mountains, stay for the mission. Help us sustain this stoke!

*Please note, each volunteer must complete this form separately. Information shared in this form will be shared with the non-profit you select to volunteer with.
Terms & Conditions:
- Accommodation reservations must take place on the same dates as the project you are registered for, and for a minimum of two nights (but can extend longer).
- Longer reservations will still only be eligible up to a maximum of $400 CAD.
- Accommodations should be booked directly with accommodators and not through a third party platform such as expedia or booking.com.
- Double occupancy reservations are only eligible for one reimbursement.
- Because this is an incentive to encourage travel to Revelstoke, the reimbursement is not available to people with a Revelstoke permanent address.
- Participants must attend their full volunteer shifts and complete the post-visit survey to be eligible for reimbursement (this will require you to submit a receipt from your hotel stay).
- Reimbursements may take up to 4 weeks after the event to process.
- Must be eligible to legally work in Canada and have a Canadian bank account.
- A researcher from the University of Utah may be onsite during your project to conduct volunteer interviews. Interview participation is entirely optional; however all feedback shared in the mandatory post survey will be aggregated and shared with the study (names and contact details will not be included).
- By attending, you grant permission for photos or video taken during the event to be used for future marketing and promotional purposes by event organizers.

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2025 Projects*
Feed the People

Nonprofit: Community Connections (Neighbourhood Kitchen)

Meals for Food Bank Clients. Join the Neighbourhood Kitchen and their Red Seal chef to use food recovery items, diverting them from the compost to create healthy meals to be given out in the Food Bank to the communities most vulnerable.

📅 Date: Friday, September 19
🕗 Time: 10:00am – 4:00pm
⚙️ Labor Intensity: Low - Medium
🏞️ Setting: Indoors
🎂 Minimum Age: All ages welcome
🎁 Bonus: Lunch provided

Volunteer Role:

We will be making multiple things during the day and working in teams to be most productive. Everything will be made and packaged for the food bank then clean up the kitchen.
- Baking
- Soup Making
- Vegetable Preparation
- Portioning & Clean up
Perfect for: Volunteers who love working in the kitchen!
LUNA Fest

Nonprofit: Arts Revelstoke

An unforgettable experience of art and community, LUNA Fest is a three-day festival presenting a lineup of musical talent, mesmerizing installation art, interactive performances, and family-friendly fun. LUNA Arts is a celebration that transforms the downtown Revelstoke core. The entire town comes out to play as the sun goes down.

📅 Date: Saturday, September 20
🕗 Time: Shift 2 (7:00pm -1:00am)
⚙️ Labor Intensity: Low - High
🏞️ Setting: Outdoors
🎂 Minimum Age: All ages welcome

Volunteer Role:

Shift 2 (7:00pm - 1:00am)
- Directing & crowd support
- LUNA Tear Down (higher labor intensity)
Perfect for: Volunteers who love the arts, interacting with people and are capable of lifting/moving heavier items.
Frisby Firewood Party

Nonprofit: Revelstoke Snowmobile Club

Join us for our annual firewood party up on Frisby and help us buck up wood and stash logs in the cabin! You'll be treated to stunning views of Revelstoke and the surrounding area, all while contributing to a great cause. It's a fantastic opportunity to enjoy the outdoors, get some exercise, and make a real difference. Come for the work, stay for the views, and leave with a sense of accomplishment!

📅 Date: Saturday, September 20
🕗 Time: 8:30am – 4:30pm
⚙️ Labor Intensity: High
🏞️ Setting: Outdoors
🎂 Minimum Age: All ages welcome
🎁 Bonus: ATV adventure to lodge included & lunch provided

Volunteer Role:

This volunteer role includes the opportunity to experience a guided ATV adventure to reach your volunteer destination, where you will stay for the majority of the day to buck and stack wood for the coming winter. It's a day out in a remote backcountry cabin, so come prepared for a mix of weather and physical activity.
- Bucking wood (for people comfortable using an axe or chainsaw)
- Stacking wood (moving up & down stairs into cabin)
Perfect for: Volunteers who love the backcountry and don't mind physical labor!
Lawn & Order: Senior Support Division

Nonprofit: Community Connections (Better at Home Program)

Enjoy being outside? Spending time in the garden? The smell of fresh-cut grass? In this role, you could have it all! This role is all about helping local Revelstoke seniors catch up on some yardwork, harvest from the garden, prepare their outdoor spaces for winter, or with minor outdoor maintenance.

📅 Date: Sunday, September 21
🕗 Time: 10:00am – 3:00pm
⚙️ Labor Intensity: Low - Medium
🏞️ Setting: Outdoors
🎂 Minimum Age: All ages welcome (pet friendly 🐶)

Volunteer Role:

Intensity of labor will be dependent on the needs addressed by seniors seeking assistance. No heavy-duty tasks- just minor maintenance, lawncare, and repairs. A van will be available to take volutneers to and from the volunteer sites, however you're also welcome to drive yourself if you prefer

Perfect for: Volunteers who love working working outside and helping seniors!
Railway Day

Nonprofit: Revelstoke Railway Museum

Join us for a a family-friendly public gathering designed to bring our community together in celebration, connection, and collaboration. It will feature a variety of activities for all ages, including games, crafts, and music.

📅 Date: Sunday, September 21
🕗 Time: 9:30am – 4:30pm
⚙️ Labor Intensity: Low & High
🏞️ Setting: Indoors & Outdoors
🎂 Minimum Age: All ages welcome
🎁 Bonus: Lunch provided

Volunteer Role:

Volunteers will help set up, supervise booths, and assist with the tear down.

Perfect for: Outgoing volunteers who enjoy interacting with kids.
Food Commons Seasonal Shutdown

Nonprofit: Revelstoke Local Food Initiative

We're looking for volunteers to join us at the Food Commons for a hands-on day of care and connection. Together, we’ll take on seasonal maintenance tasks like pulling weeds, prepping growing spaces, and helping ready the site for winter and spring planning.

Your time and energy make a difference to support community food systems. Come meet good people and care for a space rooted in learning, sharing, and nourishment.

📅 Date: Sunday, September 21
🕗 Time: 9:00am – 3:00pm
⚙️ Labor Intensity: Low
🏞️ Setting: Outdoors
🎂 Minimum Age: All ages welcome (pet friendly 🐶)

Volunteer Role:

Volunteers will help with clearing weeds, closing garden beds, and preparing the land for 2026.

Perfect for: Volunteers who enjoy gardening and are passionate about fostering local food systems.
Trail Maintenance Dig Day

Nonprofit: Revelstoke Cycling Association

Join our Dig Day and spend time working on a section of trail, then go for a ride afterwards and enjoy the fruits of your labour. Volunteers will work with an experienced trail builder on a small maintenance project to either repair or reroute a section of trail. They will learn how to maintain trails and what goes into creating a sustainable trail network.

📅 Date: Saturday, September 27
🕗 Time: 9:00am – 2:00pm
⚙️ Labor Intensity: High
🏞️ Setting: Outdoors
🎂 Minimum Age: 13+
🎁 Bonus: Lunch provided

Volunteer Role:

Volunteers will help move dirt and rocks using trail maintenance tools provided.

Perfect for: trail users, mountain bikers, and outdoor enthusiasts who want to give back to the trails they love while learning hands-on skills in sustainable trail maintenance.
Weedpull, Bioblitz & Measure

Nonprofit: Columbia Shuswap Invasive Species Society and Wildsight Revelstoke.

Join CSISS & Wildsight Revelstoke for a day of hands-on stewardship! Start at Kovach Park to remove invasive plants, then head to Mt. Macpherson Nordic Lodge for a guided Bioblitz and tree measuring session in the Inland Temperate Rainforest. Tools and training provided.

*Please Note* - This activity is an environmental education and stewardship event where two organizations are partnering up- Columbia Shuswap Invasive Species Society and Wildsight Revelstoke and activities will be held in two different locations. Volunteers will need to arrange their own transport between locations.

📅 Date: Saturday, September 27
🕗 Time: 9:00am – 4:00pm
⚙️ Labor Intensity: Low - Medium
🏞️ Setting: Outdoors
🎂 Minimum Age: All ages welcome (pet friendly 🐶)

Volunteer Role:

Stop 1- Uproot the Problem – Community Weedpull @ Revelstoke Greenbelt

We’ll kick things off at Kovach Park, where we’ll work together to remove invasive plants like burdock, blueweed, and Himalayan balsam along the Greenbelt trail. No experience needed—just bring your enthusiasm! We’ll provide gloves, tools, and ID tips to help you take meaningful action for local ecosystems.

Stop 2: Rainforest Bioblitz & Tree Measuring @ Mt. Macpherson Nordic Lodge

Next, we’ll shift into citizen science mode with a guided walk through the lush inland rainforest. Volunteers will take photos of plants and wildlife for iNaturalist, and help record tree diameter measurements as we explore off-trail forest sections. Don’t worry—we’ll teach you how to use the app and tools!

Perfect for: nature lovers, citizen scientists, and anyone passionate about protecting local ecosystems.
Dig in for the Arts

Nonprofit: Revelstoke Visual Arts Centre

Calling all garden lovers and creative souls! Help us breathe new life into the public garden space outside Revelstoke’s only non-profit art gallery. We’ll be pulling weeds, planting seedlings, and making the space extra welcoming. Whether you're a green thumb or just want to give back to the arts, we need YOU to help make this spot bloom! Dig in, learn about Revelstoke’s art scene, and help make this community hub even more vibrant!

📅 Date: Saturday, September 27
🕗 Time: 9:00am – 4:00pm
⚙️ Labor Intensity: Low - Medium
🏞️ Setting: Outdoors
🎂 Minimum Age: All ages welcome (pet friendly 🐶)

Volunteer Role:
- Weeding (this can be done sitting down and in the shade)
- Planting & composting (this requires some more movement)
This program is run by a lovely retired volunteer! We're happy to adjust the jobs to your physical ability and energy levels. There will be frequent breaks, shaded tables for lunch, and a pop up gazebo if the whether is a little too intense. Stroll through the gallery for an airconditioned break!

Perfect for: gardeners, art lovers, and community-minded folks who want to get their hands dirty while supporting local culture and making public spaces more beautiful and inviting.
Inventory, Clean, Sort n' Huck

Nonprofit: Revelstoke Seniors Centre

Join us for a hands-on volunteer day helping the Revelstoke Seniors Association inventory, sort, clean, and clear out the kitchen, pantry, games, and other equipment. It’s a great chance to help out a cornerstone community organization, work as a team, and bring a little sparkle back to the space. Who knew sorting could be this satisfying?

📅 Date: Sunay, September 28
🕗 Time: 9:00am – 2:00pm
⚙️ Labor Intensity: Low
🏞️ Setting: Intdoors
🎂 Minimum Age: 19+
🎁 Bonus: Lunch provided

Volunteer Role:

Helping to clean the kitchen, inventory items, organize games, move/dispose of old equipment.

Perfect for: Organizers, declutter enthusiasts, and anyone who loves a good before-and-after transformation.
The Great Garden Wrap-Up

Nonprofit: Revelstoke Local Food Initiative

As the growing season winds down, we're inviting volunteers to join us in preparing the community garden spaces for the winter. Connect with the land, meet others, and support a shared space that feeds and nourishes our community. All are welcome—no experience necessary!

📅 Date: Sunday, September 28
🕗 Time: 9:00am – 3:00pm
⚙️ Labor Intensity: Medium
🏞️ Setting: Outdoors
🎂 Minimum Age: All ages welcome
🎁 Bonus: Lunch provided

Volunteer Role:

Tasks may include clearing plant material, tidying plots, storing tools, removing irrigation, and helping with light repairs or organization. We may also prepare the land for a greenhouse for 2026.

Perfect for: This event is perfect for anyone who enjoys working outdoors, connecting with community, supporting local food and is passionate about shared green spaces.
Tackle School Hunger

Nonprofit: Community Connections (Neighbourhood Kitchen)

The Neighbourhood Kitchen delivers free lunches to every elementary school in Revelstoke. Help us prep and freeze items to be used for these lunches.

📅 Date: Sunday, September 28
🕗 Time: 10:00am – 3:00pm
⚙️ Labor Intensity: Low - Medium
🏞️ Setting: Intdoors
🎂 Minimum Age: All ages welcome
🎁 Bonus: Lunch provided

Volunteer Role:

Volunteers will help out the kitchen with food preparation (cleaning, dicing, freezing). Afterwards volunteers will assist in washing dishes and general kitchen clean up.

Perfect for: Food lovers, home cooks, and anyone who wants to support kids and food security in a meaningful way!
Forestry Museum Grounds Tidy

Nonprofit: BC Interior Forestry Museum & Forest Discovery Centre

Tackle the Leaves. Tidy the Trees. Prep the Property. Join us for a hands-on volunteer day as we prepare the Forestry Museum grounds and The Riverside Forest Walk for winter!

📅 Date: Sunday, September 28
🕗 Time: 9:00am – 3:00pm
⚙️ Labor Intensity: Medium - High
🏞️ Setting: Outdoors
🎂 Minimum Age: 6+ (pet friendly 🐶)
🎁 Bonus: Lunch & refreshments provided

Volunteer Role:

We'll be raking, pruning, clearing trails, and sprucing up the site before the snow flies.

The day is moderately to physically labor intensive overall, but we are able to delegate tasks based on volunteer comfort and ability. Activities range from light gardening to more demanding brush clearing and moving equipment.

Perfect for: outdoor enthusiasts, history buffs, and anyone who enjoys physical activity.
To register for "Feed the People", select '1' from dropdown below. You can only register one person per form entry. *
To register for "LUNA Fest", select '1' from dropdown below. You can only register one person per form entry. *
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To register for "Frisby Firewood Party", select '1' from dropdown below. You can only register one person per form entry. *
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To register for "Lawn and Order: Senior Support Division", select '1' from dropdown below. You can only register one person per form entry. *
To register for "Railway Day", select '1' from dropdown below. You can only register one person per form entry. *
To register for "Food Commons Seasonal Shutdown", select '1' from dropdown below. You can only register one person per form entry. *
To register for "Trail Maintenance Dig Day", select '1' from dropdown below. You can only register one person per form entry. *
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To register for "Weedpull, Bioblitz and Measure", select '1' from dropdown below. You can only register one person per form entry. *
To register for "Dig in for the Arts", select '1' from dropdown below. You can only register one person per form entry. *
To register for "Inventory, Clean, Sort n' Huck", select '1' from dropdown below. You can only register one person per form entry. *
To register for "The Great Garden Wrap-Up", select '1' from dropdown below. You can only register one person per form entry. *
To register for "Tackle School Hunger", select '1' from dropdown below. You can only register one person per form entry. *
To register for "Forestry Museum Grounds Tidy", select '1' from dropdown below. You can only register one person per form entry. *

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For double occupancy accommodations, only one volunteer will be reimbursed. To get your reimbursement, you will need to complete our post volunteer survey. What email should we send this to?*

To help everything run smoothly, we’re asking all volunteers to confirm their commitment by uploading a screenshot of their hotel reservation or confirmation. In the past, we've had a few challenges with last-minute no-shows, and this small step helps ensure that all our community projects can go ahead as planned.
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If you need more time to finalize your travel plans, that’s okay! Submit this form now, and once you have your hotel confirmation, use the ‘Edit Submission’ link in your confirmation email to upload it.

We’ll hold your volunteer spot for 72 hours. If we don’t receive your hotel confirmation within that time, we’ll assume you’re no longer able to attend and will offer your spot to someone else.

A few things to keep in mind:
- Please book your accommodation directly with your accommodator and avoid using sites such as expedia or booking.com. Booking directly helps support local businesses by eliminating large fees associated with online booking platforms which can sometimes be up to 30%.
- Hotel dates must be for the same duration as your volunteer event and a minimum of 2 nights.
- If you are traveling with another volunteer and planning to share a room, only one reimbursement will be provided.
Thanks again—we can’t wait to welcome you to Revelstoke!
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