reply, please let me know the days that you are looking to assist and your time period that you can assist for on the days you nominate. Don't forget to include your T shirt sizes please, as we will have packs prepared for you all ready to go on your check in. Look forward to hearing from you all and if you have any queries please let me know. you used to be really appreciated as a volunteer. then they outsourced the organising of the volunteers (talking M3DE here) and let us just say they have lost years of knowledge and talent in the process. in short they pissed off the old guard and now they are playing catch up! EV have much much more work to do in this regard... I'm sure you're right thejoth, I honestly don't have any knowledge of the inner or recent workings of the EV and these particular events but I have run horse shows in the past and many other public events and therefore know a little about the importance of volunteers (plus, I am one). In any event, there are skilled positions and there are non-skilled positions. Old guard or new, you don't need much talent to direct car park traffic or check entry tickets. You need willing volunteers - which by definition are not paid for their time. By offering such a valuable incentive to ALL full day volunteers sets a value against the individuals time in volunteering and sets a