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Annual Citrus Sale

The Annual Citrus Sale is one of the symphony's larger annual fundraising projects. The committee begins the initial planning in December and the sale takes place the two weeks leading into the February concert. This year there are four sales locations -- the main depot, the Confederation Court Mall, the Charlottetown Mall, and the Farmers' Market. Customers can choose bags, half boxes and full boxes of apples, oranges or grapefruits.

Chair - Each year the chair leads the committee through the sale from the beginning planning stages through to the return of any unsold fruit. The chair is responsible for the logistics of the sale, including marketing, ordering fruit, and volunteer coordination, with the help of the committee.
Time Commitment: 2-3 hours in December; much more in January and February.

Citrus Sale Committee - Members of the committee meet 4 or 5 times (meetings last about 30 minutes) to work out the logistics of the sale. Since the committee members are responsible for seeing that the details of the sale are taken care of, a number of duties are assigned to each member and members can expect to be moderately to heavily involved during the main part of the sale.
Time Commitment: 5-10 hours

Selling Fruit

Depot - Volunteers are needed to man the depot typically Thursday through Saturday, each of the two weeks. Each shift, two volunteers sort and bag fruit and deal with customers.
Time commitment: 3 hour shifts.

Confederation Court and Charlottetown Malls - For two weeks, on Thursday and Friday, 2 volunteers are needed for each shift. Fruit is sold from the community cart by the TD Bank.
Time commitment: 2.5-3 hour shifts

Farmers' Market - Each Saturday, two volunteers will be needed to deal with customers, and bag fruit.
Time commitment: 3 hours

Moving Fruit

Throughout the fruit sale we need people with good strong backs and vehicles to help move fruit from the depot to the Confederation Court Mall, the Farmers' Market, and the Symphony concert. We will also need people to help move any unsold fruit back to the depot.
Time Commitment: 30-60 minutes