Volunteering for Birch Bay is a great way to get involved in the community!
Volunteering for your local community is always rewarding but Birch Bay really is a special place to donate your time. Not only do you get to work with all the wonderful people who come to our events, you are helping to shape the future of a growing community and tourism destination. We honestly couldn’t make most of our events happen without our wonderful volunteers. Please consider working with us to make Birch Bay the best beach community in the NW!
2026 POlar Bear Plunge Volunteers Needed
EVENT STEWARDS
A steward is a person who must observe an allocated grouping of participants, noting for disqualification any who leave the attempt area or do not perform the record action as required by the guidelines. Stewards DO NOT participate in the record activity nor help/assist participants to fulfill it.
A steward is basically an “event referee” and will receive instruction from the official Guinness Book of World Records representative that will be on-site.
Estimated time commitment: 📆 Thursday, January 1st from 10AM-1PM (3 hours).
A steward needs to be independent of the event organizer, which in this case is the Birch Bay Chamber of Commerce. BBCC employees, board of directors, members, and their immediate households and financial sponsors cannot participate as stewards.
Event Plunge Stewards Click here to registerEvent Set-up & Tear-down
Duties include assisting in the set up & tear down of temporary infrastructure for registration locations and the plunge site along the Birch Bay shoreline. Hanging and removing signage, setting up and taking down tents and canopies, barriers along the shoreline, etc.
Setup: 📆 Wednesday, December 31st from Noon-5PM  📆 Thursday, January 1st 6AM-10AM
Teardown: 📆 Thursday, January 1st following the end of the event – around 2:00 PM
Registration, Merch Sales & Miscellaneous Help
Registering event participants and selling event merchandise.
📆 Thursday, 8AM-1PM
Registration & Merch Sales Volunteers Click here to registerOther Volunteer Opportunities
EVENTS
We run numerous events in Birch Bay each year, from the Polar Bear Plunge to the Ring of Fire & Hope. Volunteers help with registration, answering questions, directing traffic, and more!
BEACH CLEAN-UP DAYS
Our beaches our fantastic but we find that sometimes our visitors sometimes leave things behind. Volunteers put together beach clean-up crews to help keep Birch Bay looking beautiful!
VISITOR CENTER
During busy times we often need volunteers to help provide information to visitors and give our regular staff some breaks at the visitor center. This is a great place to meet new faces!
We are using singup.com to manage our volunteer registration for 2024 – if you have any difficulty, or are unable to use this system for any reason, don’t hesitate to reach out to us in-office to sign you up for event volunteering.