Utah Heritage Foundation will hold its annual Historic Homes Tour on May 1, 2010, from 10 AM to 5 PM.  The location of this year's tour and other details will be posted here as they are confirmed.   However, volunteers are needed now to get started; click below for more information on volunteer opportunities.

• Volunteer Chair:
  Homes Tour chairs organize the volunteer efforts at each home on the tour.  These men and women work with the homeowner to ensure that the home is respectable for the tour and respected by the tourists.  They assist in researching the home's history and help prepare the script for the docents to use during the tour.  They recruit and organize shifts for the volunteer docents at each home.  Chairs are typically required to devote 20 hours to preparing for the tour, and are expected to stay at the home before, during, and after the tour.   While typically one individual chairs the efforts at one home, two people have and can co-chair a home.
  
• Volunteer Docent:
  Homes Tour docents work a roughly two hour shift in one area of the home designated by the chair.  The exact length of the shift depends on the number of docents working in a home.  Docents will receive a script, which they are expected to memorize and bring to the tour.  Docents also ensure that the property is respected and returned to the owner in the condition it was entrusted to us.

Other volunteer opportunities include:

• Preparing tour booklets for sale;
• Setting up signage and the tour headquarters in the morning;
• Selling tickets at tour headquarters through the day;
• Closing homes, cleaning up signage and the tour headquarters at the end of the day;
• Various other activities as weather, traffic and other needs arise.