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Oxfam Festival Volunteering

If you are interested in stewarding for Oxfam in 2008, there are still places available! Find out where below.

Stewarding festivals

	Dates required	Cancellation deadline	We are:
Cornbury	3-6 Jul	12 Jun	SEE BELOW
Latitude	16-20 Jul	26 Jun	RECRUITING
Glade	16-20 Jul	26 Jun	RECRUITING
Womad	23-27 Jul	3 Jul	RECRUITING
Summer Sundae	6-10 Aug	17 Jul	RECRUITING
Bloom Festival	6-10 Aug	17 Jul	RECRUITING
Beautiful Days	14-17 Aug	24 Jul	Add your name to the waiting list
Leeds	20-24 Aug	31 Jul	Add your name to the waiting list
Reading	20-24 Aug	31 Jul	Add your name to the waiting list
Bestival	3-7 Sep	14 Aug	Add your name to the waiting list

We still need stewards for this weekend. If you are free to steward at Cornbury please call 0117 916 6483 / 0117 916 6481 during office hours on Thursday, or 07920295153 on Friday. We look forward to hearing from you!

Even though some festivals are full, please add your name to the waiting list as places may become available.

Oxfam will not be stewarding at Wychwood, Green Man, End of the Road. They are all going to be recruiting stewards themselves. You can apply for a place on their festival websites.

Campaigning festivals

Sorry, there are no more vacancies for festival campaigners.

See our frequently asked questions for more information on stewarding at festivals with Oxfam.

Become an Oxfam steward or campaigner

To be an Oxfam steward or campaigner, we need you to pay a £165 refundable deposit and to work 3 shifts during each festival. You must be 18 or over and able to provide a reliable reference. You will be camping in a separate area with showers and toilets, and you will receive a free meal ticket for each shift you work. You will need to bring your OWN TENT!

To find out more, check out the frequently asked questions (FAQs), on the website, and the stewarding forum.

To complete this application form to volunteer at a festival in 2008 you will need the following.

A valid debit or credit card
This is to pay for your deposit, which this year is £165. Unfortunately we are unable to accept payment by cheque or American Express. Your deposit can only be refunded onto the same credit/debit card as you used to pay the deposit. So ensure that the account you use will still be active at the end of your last festival. Contact stewards@oxfam.org.uk for stewards enquiries or festivalcampaigners@oxfam.org.uk for campaigners enquires, if the account is closed for any reason.
Your diary
a) Training: To decide which Health and Safety Training course to book on to. (You will need to complete this if you have not been trained by us in the last four years.)
b) Festivals: To ensure you are available for the whole time we are at each festival. For example, to steward at Glastonbury you must arrive on Tuesday 24th June and be on site until late on Sunday 29th June.
Details of your transport to the festival
We need to know how you are coming to the festival, so we know how many car passes to order from the festival and how many buses to provide, (for some festivals only).
A photo
You’ll need to upload an up-to-date photo of yourself for your application. The photo should be a JPEG (.jpg) file type, less than 50kb in file size and no larger than 3.5 x 4.5 cm.
Shift partners' details
We try our hardest to ensure that you have the same shift times as your friends. But we need to know who they are – please provide details of their full name and date of birth so we can match your shifts.
Referee’s details
If you have worked at less than 2 festivals as an Oxfam steward or campaigner, you will be asked to provide contact details of a referee, including their telephone number and email address.
Emergency contact & Doctor’s details
In the unlikely event that you have a medical emergency we may be asked to provide your doctor’s name and contact details. These will only ever be passed on to medical personnel.
For priority applications only:
Steward ID or Campaigner ID:
The ID number that you received in your priority application email or letter.

Directions to Glastonbury Oxfield

Directions to Oxfield (Oxfam camping and parking) by car

Follow the signs for the blue route on the A37 south. Turn right after the petrol station, sign posted Pylle Church. Follow this road to the T junction, then turn right. Follow this road for about a mile, and our field will be on your left on a bend. Look out for the big Oxfam banner on the entrance to the field.

This is a new field, car parking may be tight, please park sensibly.

Children's tickets for Glastonbury

The following is the workers children's policy for Glastonbury festival:

Children aged 12 and under on June 25 2008 when they arrive at the Festival, and when accompanied by a working adult, are admitted free and do not need a ticket nor do they need to register with the Festival.

Workers' children aged 13, 14 and 15 will have to register with the festival this year.

Child tickets will be the same price as adult tickets.
Child tickets can be bought by the responsible adult accompanying the child; who may have a different surname from that adult. So, for example, a parent can buy child tickets for one of their offspring and a friend.
Child tickets will carry the photograph of the registered child and will be overprinted with the word "child".

Festival volunteer training dates

All training session are now full, but don't worry, this will not affect your stewarding application. You will be fully briefed on site. Please also refer to the following presentations:

Stewards training - Overview presentation (5MB ppt)

These are training sessions for Glastonbury's own campsite and fire stewards presented by Alan Daly, these are not relevant for people stewarding for Oxfam.