Mrs Rigby started volunteering in the kiosk in 1987, when her sons first began playing mini-league for the club.

Most Saturdays, when Evandale hosts its home games, Mrs Rigby starts her day at 5am.

She says she has got the preparation work down to a fine art.

“We have to go and pick up the bread and the rolls first,” she said.

The bread is always fresh and the sandwiches and rolls are made each day.

“It has to be fresh bread,” she laughed.

She arrives at the football club at 7.30am and makes sandwiches from about four loaves of bread and two or three dozen bread rolls.

While Mrs Rigby is a constant fixture at the football club, she divides her time between other volunteering pursuits.

She is also president of the Launceston General Hospital auxiliary, volunteers at the LGH kiosk and is a support volunteer for palliative care patients.

For her efforts, Mrs Rigby was recognised for Launceston’s 2018 volunteer awards, held during Volunteer Week.

She was presented her award by Launceston Mayor Albert van Zetten.

“I was pretty surprised I had been nominated actually,” she said.

Mrs Rigby said she enjoyed volunteering because she enjoyed meeting new people and she had met a few colourful characters.

“I just love being around people,” she said.

Evandale Football Club is experiencing low volunteer numbers, like a lot of sporting clubs and not-for-profit organisations.

There are about six dedicated people who volunteer at the kiosk.

Evandale Football Club operations manager Michael Rigby, said despite the low numbers, the kiosk was the second-biggest revenue raiser.

“Behind the bar, it is the biggest revenue raiser for us,” he said.

Mr Rigby said without his mother’s support, the kiosk would not function as effectively.

“We absolutely rely on her.”

For home games, Evandale’s kiosk would see on average about 400 people line up for their chips and gravy, sausage rolls, sandwiches, rolls or coffee.

“We like to have the coffee running early, while we don’t have a cappuccino maker we can do flat whites and that seems to be popular,” Mrs Rigby said.

Mrs Rigby started volunteering at the LGH when she was in her 20s.

“I did 28 years [at the LGH], but then I had a break, but if you counted it all up together I would have been their 50 years,” she said.

The Launceston General Hospital kiosk has a standing roster of about 90 volunteers.