GMHA : Green Mountain Horse Association

Volunteer Opportunities at GMHA

Support your sport

Volunteers are critical to the success of the Green Mountain Horse Association. In 2007, dedicated volunteers donated over 3,500 hours of their time to help out at GMHA.

Volunteers help make GMHA what it is!

Working events, painting fences, stuffing mailings, and helping with office work - our members, competitors, and friends commit their valuable free time to helping us out. Volunteering is a great way to meet new people, watch some lovely rides, learn from judges, and just enjoy a fun day around horses.

Experienced volunteers as well as those brand-new to horses are welcome. There are appropriate jobs for all ages and abilities.

What’s the best job for me at a GMHA event?

• Timer: Want a close-up view of the action and comfortable with a stopwatch? Be a timer for jumping, driving, or trail events!
• Hospitality: A great way to meet people and explore the grounds while providing refreshments to volunteers and officials. Must have a valid driver’s license.
• Scribe: A fantastic learning opportunity! Must be able to write legibly and quickly to record judge’s comments.
• Pulse & Respirations (Competitive Trail & Driving only): Want to be up close and personal with the competing horses? Take and record results of pulse and respirations to help ensure the safety of all.
• Scoring: Good with numbers? Record and calculate scores and results.
• Hazards Judges (Combined Driving Event only): Records faults/ time for each competitor at a hazard. Uses a radio to communicate with show officials. A front row seat for the most exciting marathon phase. Like fence judging for the driving enthusiast.
• Gate Stewards: Are you people person? Here’s a way to interact with competitors and keep the show running on time.
• Cones Crew: Tailor the cones course to each individual carriage. Fun and easy exercise.
• Runners: Bring your bike or take a hike! A good way to see all aspects of the event as you bring in score sheets.
• Fence Judges (Eventing only): One of our most popular positions! Record jump penalties and communicate by radio with show officials.
• Jump Crew: Pick up rails and make minor course adjustments while watching the action!
• Awards: Coordinate trophies and ribbons and congratulate competitors.

Busy competing? How about these mid-week GMHA jobs?

Not available on weekends but want to get involved? Besides volunteering at our events, there are many tasks we could use your help with around GMHA. Consider these options!

• Gardening: Green thumbs wanted! GMHA maintains its decorative flowers and shrubs all show season~ and we could use your help!
• Painting: Help keep our cross-country and stadium jumps looking fresh and new!
• GMHA Magazine: Authors wanted! We need contributors for our quarterly magazine. Any and all article or column ideas are welcome.
• Office: The GMHA office gets particularly busy right before our big events, but there are projects (especially for the computer literate) throughout the season.
• Other special skills you think might help us out? Let us know!

Download Volunteer Form, or email GMHA. Please tell us when you are available and anything else we should know when assigning tasks.

Thanks for your help!

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