Volunteering & Hosting

A festival like Leapin’ Lindy is very much dependent on the community and it cannot take place without a small army of helpers. 

If you sign up to be a volunteer or host, you will receive a small thank you in the form of a coupon for a free beverage at the parties and a pair of Leapin’ Lindy socks.

Volunteering

You can help us by signing up to be a volunteer. We will get in touch with you about a month before the festival and ask you to work for a slot of 1-2 hours. When assigning jobs to our volunteers, we always make sure that they do not have to work during the classes they have signed up. However, you may get asked to work during a party.

Typical jobs are

  • handing out envelopes at the registration desk
  • setting up locations and venues
  • cleaning up locations and venues

 

If you have a prefered job that you like to do (or something you absolutely don’t want to do), please let us know in the comments during registration.

Hosting

If you live in or around Bern, you can help us out by providing private accommodation for external dancers who would like to get hosted.
 
We are counting on your generosity and cannot reimburse the costs you may have while making your guests welcome. But in our experience, this is the best way to make new dancing friends and it totally pays to host dancers!
 
In order to provide as many spots for private accommodation as possible,  we ask you to provide all free spots you have to offer, even if it is a couch in your living room or a simple mattress on the floor. The visitors can bring their sleeping-bags!
 
We will get in touch with people asking for or providing private accommodation shortly before the festival to match them up. We need to get in most of the registrations before we start matching people, so please be patient.