Summer’s Coming!!
It’s the festival season again! Well, it’s the season to start thinking about going to some.
Oxfam have a wonderful system where you volunteer at one or more festivals (3 8 hour shifts during the festival, but you get to arrive a day early and leave a day late if you want to) and in exchange you get in free. Trust me, having to steward doesn’t detract from the experience- it doesn’t really feel like work at all, you’re out there in the middle of all that madness and you’re wearing an orange jacket! You feel like the fucking MAN. Plus you get to boss people about, people get out of your way and at the end of the eight hours you can go and drink beer and watch Rage Against the Machine.
Only cons are deposit is £175. But you get it all back after your festival!
Spaces are going fast- I think they will be gone in the next few days for Glastonbury so do get your socks on. The application link is http://www.oxfam.org.uk/get_involved/stewarding/index.html .
Oxfam are doing:
Festival Onsite dates Places
(the numbers of places are out of date, CHECK THE SITE FOR THE CURRENT ONES!)
Rockness 11 Jun to 15 Jun 277 places
Glastonbury 23 Jun to 29 Jun 898 places
Glade 15 Jul to 20 Jul 470 places
Latitude 15 Jul to 20 Jul 90 places
Womad 22 Jul to 27 Jul 449 places
Camp Bestival 22 Jul to 27 Jul 144 places
Summer Sundae 12 Aug to 17 Aug 97 places
Beautiful Days 20 Aug to 24 Aug 28 places
Shambala 26 Aug to 31 Aug 53 places
Leeds 26 Aug to 31 Aug 340 places
Reading 26 Aug to 31 Aug 444 places
Cream Fields 28 Aug to 31 Aug 182 places
Bestival 09 Sep to 14 Sep 399 places
I’m doing Glastonbury and Leeds and possibly some others, do tell if you sign up for anything :)
