Festival volunteering
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Roles
We deliver a range of essential services, including keeping festivalgoers hydrated, providing our very own Good Loos, and helping to keep the festival clean for everyone – all whilst spreading the word about the life-changing power of clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene.
Our water crews play a vital role in making sure festivalgoers have access to water and stay hydrated at festivals. Roles can include handing out water, selling water bottles, maintaining and cleaning water refill points, and talking to the public about our work.
Our sanitation crews include our Good Loos team, Loo Crew, female urinal team, and litter pickers. Volunteers are likely to be keeping toilets and the festival site clean and tidy, taking donations, and engaging festivalgoers with the importance of sanitation.
Hygiene has been shown to be more important than ever over the past year, so we’ll be ramping up our hygiene services in 2021. We’ll be looking for volunteers to help run and maintain our new Handwashing Hubs, as well as recruiting for our wonderful teams of shower stewards and cleaners.
Festival volunteering and COVID-19
We know that festival volunteering may look slightly different this summer, but we’re working hard to ensure that the experience is still just as special as in previous years – and, importantly, that it’s as safe as possible for everyone.
We’re following government guidelines closely and making sure we consider the impact of COVID-19 at every stage of our planning process. If you volunteer with us this year, we'll provide you with extra training to help you stay safe, as well as enhanced support and welfare measures on-site.
What our volunteers say
"Volunteering with WaterAid is absolutely amazing and so much fun! There are so many fabulous opportunities to talk and engage festival goers on how amazing and vital WaterAid’s work is" – Rushy
WaterAid/ Ben Roberts
"I absolutely loved working at Glastonbury and Boomtown – you felt part of the whole festival and it was great speak to many different people about WaterAid!" – Anthony
WaterAid/Billy Barraclough
"The camaraderie of your fellow volunteers and the reception from the public is great. I’ve made some exceptional friendships with other volunteers – there are so many awesome folk!" – Charlie
"The real magic comes as you engage with hundreds of like-minded people about the unique work which WaterAid does supporting some of the poorest communities on our planet in getting clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene" – Paul
WaterAid
“It’s the best thing we’ve done in recent years - an amazing way to experience a festival while spreading WaterAid’s message. There's a fantastic atmosphere amongst volunteers.” - Brian and Caroline
WaterAid/Emily Graham
‘’The atmosphere is great - everyone is passionate about the same cause and it's the perfect place to promote WaterAid's work, as suddenly a clean loo and getting water is front of mind!" - Jessica
Contact us
If you have any questions about festival volunteering check out our FAQs page, or contact us by emailing [email protected] or calling our Supporter Care team on 020 7793 4594 – we’ll be happy to help!
You can also join the WaterAid Festival Volunteering Facebook group for all the latest updates on future volunteering opportunities with us.