Volunteers fulfill a wide range of services and responsibilities at all levels of any sport organization. These individuals, working in the trenches of sport, come into contact with and collectively have a profound effect on the experience of thousands of young athletes and their parents. It is their efforts that influence the decisions to begin and maintain involvement in sport. While team officials, coaches, assistant coaches and managers make an immeasurable contribution to the success of the club (and team), there are many other volunteers who contribute to each successful season.

Volunteers are the nuts and bolts needed to operate our Club and continue offering a superior quality program at reasonable fees. Approximately 850 volunteers a year are required to run our club. We encourage members to step forward and help in one of the many different volunteer opportunities offered.

Each family interested in volunteering, will need to fill in a Volunteer Application. This can either be done when they register their YOUTH child for summer soccer (by ticking “yes” to the volunteering question) OR by going to the Volunteer Now! section of their PowerUp account.

The volunteer application form has a list of volunteer activities that are eligible for a reimbursement of the $55 non-volunteer fee. Since this is a FAMILY fee, as long as the volunteer is a responsible person 14 years of age or older, the family can decide among themselves who will complete the volunteer activity.

Go to the Eligible Volunteer Activities Chart to view a description of the eligible activities and completion timelines.

Our volunteer tracking system will allow us to track all volunteer involvement on a family basis. While we will make every effort to assign volunteers to their priority choice, we cannot, however, guarantee the availability of the chosen volunteer role. Since some activities only need a few volunteers, the more activities that you select in your application the greater your chance is of being contacted by the Volunteer Coordinator when eligible activities become available.

A general email with a sign up for will go out to all members who have filled in the Volunteer Application in PowerUp - first come, first served basis. The form will request the member to fill in their information and choose which task they would like to volunteer for depending on the event.

Members should make sure the email preferences in their PowerUp account is set to accept emails from volunteers@ottawatfc.com or register@ottawatfc.com.

Families who volunteer and complete their "eligible volunteer activity" will have their non-volunteer fee of $55 credited to their account at the end of the season.

Families who are not able to volunteer or choose not to volunteer will still pay the mandatory $55 non-volunteer fee. In these situations, the Ottawa TFC will keep the $55 per family non-volunteer fee in lieu of the member participating in some capacity as a Club volunteer. The non-volunteer fees collected will be allocated according to the list shown in the next section.

The Ottawa TFC would prefer not to increase its net operational income from this fee. However, because many families choose not to volunteer and there are fewer opportunities to volunteer than families registered in the club, an increase in net operational income is anticipated.

Should this happen, we are committed to allocating these funds in a manner that will benefit the community or the entire membership in the following priority:

1. Supplying financial aid for soccer registration fees and uniform expenses to those Orleans families in need, and that might otherwise be unable to play soccer.

2. Funding coaching and players clinics.

3. Hiring additional resource support staff to assist in areas where there are not enough volunteers.

4. Any further excess net operational revenue arising from the volunteer fee will be allocated to a Board-approved fund for future development of Ottawa TFC.