Jobs at UK Festivals

Getting a job at a festival in catering or a bar job, as security or safety staff, or as a festival steward can be agood way to get in free. The jobs are usually voluntary but if they are you will almost always get a free ticket and time to enjoy the event.

Glastonbury is probably the most famous festival, here’s what they have to say:

”The Festival is regularly approached about the availability of different types of jobs. In fact the numbers employed directly by the Festival are relatively small. If you want to work in event management, stage management, rigging and staging, sound, lighting, electrics, plumbing, event security, tent contractors and so on, the Festival can not really help you. Many, if not all, of these specialists are employed by different event management companies that have established, experienced crew who return year on year – as do most of the organisers running performance fields.”

So as you can see, to get a paid job at a festival you need to find out who has the contract for te area in which you want to work. At present in this case www.cashandtrafficmanagement.com supply car parking and admission staff which is a good one if you want to earn some one-off money. (They also do the Reading festival).