Students from Wyke College volunteered to help out at the Freedom Festival and Clipper events that took place in Hull over the summer.

The weekend was a massive success for the city of Hull and the volunteers played a key role in directing visitors around the city, helping out the stewards (during a very busy point when people were cramming in to Queens Gardens to see JLS!), looking after stiltwalkers (during a very windy period on the marina in the run up to the Clipper race!) and all kinds of other things. Prior to the event, the students attended a training day at the Guildhall which included information about the Council's Events Team, VHEY (Visit Hull and East Yorkshire), a site visit of the event area and Counter Terrorism training by Humberside Police.

Sarah Harrison, part of the VHEY/Hull City Council Events Team said ‘Your volunteers were all of an excellent standard; they worked with huge amounts of enthusiasm and were more than willing to help out with any task thrown their way.’