Training for the "Au Coeur de la Mode" Fashion Event - November 4th 2009

Last wednesday night, I had a one-hour training session scheduled for the upcoming fashion charity event "Au Coeur de la Mode". This training was mandatory for all volunteers who registered to be sales persons on the actual day of the event, November 15th 2009.

The training was basically an informative lecture on the event itself, how to prepare bills for the items being sold and how to package the items. It may sound dumb but they have a very specific method that needs to be respected in order to avoid theft of items or any kind of misappropriation of funds belonging to the Farha Foundation.

They also went through the basic timeline for the day of the event, next sunday :

8am : Arrival and Registration of volunteers

8am to 8:20am : Coffee and Coat check
(Free coffee, juice, cookies. yay!)

8:20am : Meeting with the supervisors
(They will assign me to a boutique / kiosk for the day)

8:40am to 9am : Meeting with the boutique / kiosk people
(i.e. the people I will work directly with all day)

9am to 10am : Pre-sale for VIPS and volunteers
(Woah. That's the life!)

10am : Sale opens to the public

11:30am : Lunch rotations begin
(Free food. yay!)

5:00pm : Closing time
(and then the dismantling begins.)

I will also be volunteering all day saturday, November 14th 2009, to help prepare everything (tables, chairs, clothing display, etc.) for 8am until .. somewhere in the afternoon (no later than 6pm). I decided to expand my hours on saturday to make up for the hours I didn't do on October 31st for the Publicity blitz.

That's it for now, just a little over an hour to add to the logbook :o)
I'll give you a full report after the event, as usual !

Later,
Fannie xox

The Volunteer Logbook :

Wednesday, November 4th 2009: 7:00pm to 8:15pm (1,25 hours)

Total hours in this article : 1,25 hours

Current iVolunteer Project : 16,25 hours

Remaining iVolunteer Project : 183,75 hours and 314 days to go

Upcoming events for October / November 2009

The main event for the next month will be the "Au Coeur de la Mode" fashion charity event happening on November 15th 2009. This event is basically a giant local and international designer fashion outlet sale with all garments at 50% and more !!!

"The proceeds of this event assists the Farha Foundation to continue to help the more than 20,000 men, women and children living with HIV and AIDS in Quebec."

There are many opportunities to do volunteer work in preparation for and on the actual day of this event, for example, I've chosen to be a sales person.

I've registered to take part in the following activities :

October 31st : Publicity Blitz (3 hours)

November 3rd : Training for sales person (1 hour)

November 14th : Putting up the tables and displaying the clothes (5 hours)

November 15th : Fashion event - sales person (10,5 hours)

This event should allow me to accomplish 19,5 hours .. maybe more .. so I'm really happy about that ! I've been told this is a really fun event and I'm looking forward to it.

The head of volunteers sent me an e-mail yesterday saying that they're still looking for more volunteers so if you're from around Montréal and want to help : CLICK HERE to volunteer !

Later,
Fannie xox