Last remaining 2010 spaces – apply now!

In 2010, Oxfam is attending over 15 of the UK’s biggest and best festivals.

Join the 5,000-strong team of Oxfam stewards, campaigners and shop volunteers at the UK’s best music festivals. You’ll see live music from the inside, helping make it all happen. In return you’ll get hot food, warm showers and exclusive staff camping. Better still, you’ll be raising money to fight poverty while you’re at it.

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Support Oxfam as a festival volunteer

Remaining steward places are limited! Apply now to secure your place.

Stewards:
The eyes and ears of the festival. Stewards roles differ at each festival – you could be checking peoples’ tickets, watching for fires, showing people where to camp and various other duties.

Campaigning at festivals for Oxfam

Campaigning at festivals involves helping co-ordinate and promote a variety of fun, interactive Oxfam initiatives, aimed at encouraging festivalgoers to get involved with our campaigning work.

As a campaigner, you may be asked to inform festivalgoers about Oxfam's campaigning work and encourage them to sign petitions, upload photos to our festival gallery or simply visit our festival marquee and get involved with Oxfam.

Find out more about campaigning for Oxfam at festivals

Stewarding at festivals for Oxfam

In brief, a steward acts as the eyes and ears of the festival. As a steward, you must be aware of what is happening around the festival site. People will approach stewards for guidence and information about the festival, so your primary role is to keep people safe and informed.

General stewarding roles may include staffing gates, checking tickets and passes, patroling campsites and keeping an eye out for overcrowding and safety in the arena.

Stewarding at festivals does not involve cleaning loos, security work i.e crowd control, expulsions etc, and you will not be talking to the public about Oxfam’s campaigning work.

Find out more about stewarding for Oxfam at festivals

Oxfam festival shop

The festival shop raises lots of money for Oxfam’s projects by selling a wide range of festival fashion and essentials, from wellies to wedding dresses.

We need experienced volunteers to help us run the shop. This will involve handling cash, providing good customer service, and keeping the shop tidy and full of stock, as well as setting up the shop at the start of the festival and packing it up at the end.

There’s always a great atmosphere in the shop – you’ll get the chance to help festival-goers pick out some funky outfits, and maybe dress up yourself too!

Find out more about helping to run the shop at festivals