Applications to become a Pride-maker are now open!
Join us for an unforgettable day. You’ll meet brilliant people, celebrate our community, and help make Norwich shine with colour and joy.
Click the pride flag below to sign up and be part of something amazing.
Why volunteer?
It takes around 150 Pride Makers to bring Norwich Pride to life each year. Whether you can give a full day or just a couple of hours, your support helps create a safe, welcoming, inclusive celebration for thousands of people.
Volunteering is:
- A brilliant day out
- A chance to make a real difference to the LGBTQIA+ community
- A way to meet new people and be part of something joyful
- Open to everyone — all skills, all abilities, all backgrounds
There’s a role for absolutely everyone. Are you ready to help us turn Norwich into a rainbow?
Here are some of the roles you can apply for are –
Stewards
- Directing people within venues and around the city
- Directing the Pride March and ensuring both marchers and public are safe
- Being the friendly face and eyes and ears of Pride
- Reporting any problems or hazards to the operations team
- Answering questions about Pride and the day
Shop assistants
- Setting up and staffing the two Pride shops
- Moving stock between locations
- Handle cash and use the card machines
- Answering questions about the meaning of all the flags and badges we stock
Entertainments Team (stagehands/ushers)
- Ensure performers are in the right place at the right team
- Look after performer wellbeing and backstage areas
- Ensure audiences enter and leave venues safely
- Keep accessible areas open for those that need them
- Ensure the events run on time
Photographers
- Capture a record of Pride day events and the March
- Create high quality images that can be used across the internet, social platforms and publications
Social media team
- Capture the day for those that can’t make it to Pride
- Take quick snapshots and short interviews to be shared immediately on socials
- Create content to reflect every aspect of the day
- Help direct visitors around Pride and answer questions
Wellbeing and access team
- Ensure the health, safety and wellbeing of visitors with accessibility needs
- Ensure the wellbeing of other Pride volunteers
- Report any problems to the operations team
- Direct people to wellbeing facilities and accessible areas
- Help direct visitors around Pride and answer questions
Team Leaders
- Supervise small teams of volunteers
- Ensure volunteers are stationed appropriately around the site
- Answering questions from other volunteers
- Escalate issues to the operations team
- Ensure the wellbeing of volunteers by checking in with team members and encouraging breaks
Every year we have a training day before Pride, and a thank you party afterwards.
INCLUSION: We’re passionate about creating an inclusive team that promotes and values diversity, which can help empower under-represented voices. This passion runs through all of our work with equality of opportunity regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. (Equality Act 2010).
If you have any questions, you can reach our Volunteer Co‑ordinator at volunteer@norwichpride.org.uk.
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