Need to get into Glastonbury without spending a dime? Oxfam are on the lookout for volunteers

Oxfam is providing folks the possibility to get into Glastonbury Competition without spending a dime by its volunteering scheme.

The charity, which is an official accomplice of the Worthy Farm occasion, is on the lookout for 8,500 volunteers for its greatest summer time of festivals but in 2024.

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Along with Glastonbury, volunteers are wanted for numerous different main UK festivals equivalent to Studying & Leeds, Latitude, Isle Of Wight and Boardmasters.

Members will likely be given free entry to the positioning in alternate for stewarding shifts amongst different roles, together with checking tickets and wristbands on the gates, and supporting accessible viewing platforms by the phases.

Oxfam volunteers are required to finish three eight-hour shifts through the pageant interval, which can give them time to benefit from the dwell performances and take within the environment when not working.

They’ll even have entry to a safe tenting space within the Oxfam campsite and be given a free meal voucher per shift, free telephone charging, and free tea and low.

Functions open this Thursday (February 1), with locations allotted on a first-come, first-served foundation. You’ll be able to sign up here.

Final 12 months, the collaborating volunteers gave over 206,000 hours of their time over the summer time and helped increase £1.5million to help Oxfam’s poverty-fighting work.

Michael Lever, Head Of Festivals And Occasions, mentioned: “We’re so excited to welcome extra volunteers than ever this 12 months to hitch Oxfam at a number of the UK’s finest festivals throughout the summer time.

“We have now been offering volunteer stewards on the UK’s greatest and finest festivals for over 30 years now, after first taking our volunteers to Glastonbury in 1993. We’ve come a good distance since then and folks can now be a part of us at 15 festivals throughout the UK and by doing so increase cash for Oxfam.”

Lever continued: “We’ve constructed a pleasant and passionate neighborhood of volunteers and lots of of them have been coming again 12 months after 12 months with some attending over 100 festivals with Oxfam.

“We’ll additionally proceed to have volunteers to help our campaigning and final 12 months we supplied a possibility for tens of 1000’s of individuals to signal our Local weather Justice marketing campaign and take part Oxfam’s collective activism.”

Desmond Fitzgerald, who has volunteered for 19 years at 104 festivals, added: “When you do it a few times, you actually recognize all the advantages and the enjoyable which you can have.

“After the pageant after I return into my very own neighborhood, it makes me really feel extra empowered to have the ability to assist folks. We name ourselves the Oxfamily – everyone’s welcome, everyone’s included.”

By volunteering at two or extra festivals in a single season, volunteers are awarded precedence standing for the next 12 months and might enroll earlier than purposes open to most of the people.

This offers candidates a greater likelihood at securing a job at their occasion of alternative or extra fashionable festivals equivalent to Glastonbury. All volunteers obtain coaching and develop expertise equivalent to communication and organisation.

The total checklist of festivals for 2024 additionally consists of Bearded Principle, Obtain, 2000Trees, WOMAD, Wilderness, Boomtown Honest, ArcTanGent, Stunning Days and Shambala.

In the meantime, Glastonbury not too long ago shared particulars of this 12 months’s Rising Expertise Competitors – which supplies new and unsigned artists the possibility to carry out on one in every of its principal phases.

Glastonbury 2024 is about to happen between June 26-30. The primary two batches of tickets went on sale in November, however have now bought out. A resale is anticipated to be held within the spring.

No acts have been introduced as of but. In late 2023, it was reported that Madonna, Dua Lipa and Coldplay could be topping the invoice subsequent summer time. Emily Eavis, nonetheless, subsequently mentioned the rumours concerning the confirmed headliners had been “unfaithful”.

In October, Eavis revealed that the Legends Slot on Sunday afternoon could be occupied by a feminine artist in 2024. She additionally hinted as soon as once more that there could possibly be two feminine headliners.