Do you want to help us make this year’s Sweet Days, Hot Nights Festival bigger and better than ever before? Then we need you for our 2019 volunteer event crew!

Community volunteers are the friendly faces of the three-day event, helping to create the festival atmosphere and are essential to its success.

The commitment doesn’t need to be huge- even one hour would help organisers enormously.

Burdekin Shire Council Mayor Lyn McLaughlin said a range of tasks were available to suit different skills and personalities.

“Volunteers can help with everything from marshalling, to event programme distribution, to data collection and even race timekeeping,” she said.

“There’s a role to suit everyone, with each and every volunteer crucial to making the 2019 Sweet Days, Hot Nights Festival an incredible experience for tourists and locals alike.”

Volunteers can choose one or more of the following events:

First Fire – Thursday 30 MayBurdekin Cultural Fair – Friday 31 MayAustralian Hand Cane Cutting Championships – Saturday 1 June

Applications for volunteer event crew close on Friday 17 May at 5:00pm.

A mandatory induction and information session for all volunteers will be held from 5:00pm to 6:00pm on Wednesday 29 May.

For more information and to apply, phone Council’s Tourism Section on (07) 4783 9800 or email .