Your role is to greet the swimmers with a big smile and make sure they have everything they need to swim.

You'll be one of the first people the swimmers meet, so a warm and enthusiastic welcome will make all the difference.

Your role is to prepare hot chocolate (or alternatives) in the large insulated flasks. You'll hand out full cups of hot drinks to swimmers as soon as they arrive back in the village after the swim.

Part of this role may involve looking after the rewarming area near the hot drinks. Check on any cold swimmers and ask if they would like a hot drink brought in.

This is a key role helping to keep the traffic flowing in and around the event. Once allocated a post you'll be welcoming everyone with smiles, congratulating them on their arrival and offering guidance on travel and parking.

Volunteering in these roles is a support role to our official Traffic Management organisation.

Your role will be helping swimmers out of the water and collecting their wristbands/timing chips. There are land-based, and shallow water-based positions in this role.

If you are happy to be partially in the water, we would suggest wearing a wetsuit, or clothes and footwear that you don’t mind getting wet. Many of the swimmers will be tired and a little unsteady on their feet, so you’ll be there to lean on and walk out of the water with. Expect to receive lots of damp hugs too!

Swimmers can drop their small bags at the start of the swim. This means they can keep their belongings up until a few minutes before getting in the water. Their bags will then be driven to the finish for them to collect after their swim.

This role is split into two positions.

1. You'll be helping at the start of the swim collecting bags, checking the swimmers tag has been attached, and loading these into the bag drop van.You'll be helping at the end of the swim, unloading the bags from the van and sorting into number order to make it easy and quick for the swimmer to collect their bag after they have finished.