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  1. Volunteering 2024

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    22 hours ago, stuie said:

    Wouldn’t say my job is consistently exciting - mostly office based, with team collabs and some client face to face but it requires me to be a different version of me sometimes!

    I’m lucky with Oxfam - I used to do fests with them when I was a student and since I’ve returned to them for Glasto after a long break, I’ve always been a supervisor on gate C where there isn’t a quiet or dull shift! 

    Anyone with disability issues just has to inform Oxbox or their supervisor and reasonable adjustments will be made for them - or where it’s necessary they might be given another role.

    In terms of able bodied people, most supervisors will let people sit down and take time out etc. But from the public point of view, what do you think when you see a group of stewards sitting down chatting in a group? Just treat it like you would your real life job and everyone will be happy!

    What's going on here with people with disabilities

  2. Volunteering 2024

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    42 minutes ago, Leyrulion said:

    My experience as a a gate organiser was that as you have no shift sheets you had no idea about any RAs that people might have.

    So people were having to self declare them to me at the start of a shift so they weren't standing in the sun etc, which isn't what you want and not everyone is comfortable doing that. 

    The gate supervisor, who had the list, obviously had about 60 stewards to get through to sign in and find out who had the RAs . He did in fairness get to everyone but because of a couple of incidents at the start of the shift that took about 2 hours. 

    I ended up just asking everyone individually in a quiet moment if they had any RAs they felt comfortable sharing that I should know. Which worked really effectively and I actually discovered a couple of things that weren't listed but we could accommodate for. 

    It is down to the supervisor but also Oxfam aren't always the best at every situation!

    This is all totally bizarre what you are saying

  5. Volunteering 2024

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    Just now, marathonsteve said:

    Yes even on their Oxfam Facebook page going back  into their history there are people are not happy with that. What about if you have disability issues then

    have any question this.

  6. Volunteering 2024

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    13 hours ago, Johnnyseven said:

    I'd be very surprised if you could get away with listening to podcasts or watching your phone while on an Oxfam shift, they don't even like you to sit down when working.

    Yes even on their Oxfam Facebook page going back  into their history there are people are not happy with that. What about if you have disability issues then

  9. Your Favourite On-Site Bar/Pub?

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    59 minutes ago, gerardfenton18 said:

    Probably the only place I’ve been for a week that there isn’t an Irish bar 😂 gap in the market? 👀

    just an observation 🍀

    I agree as we have just come back from holiday in Achill island and Westport where people just turn up to play 

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  20. Volunteering 2024

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    On 7/31/2023 at 12:52 PM, stuie said:

    You would have access to all of the crew bars with your Glasto accreditation and I think you can arrive early with Festaff too.  My only issue with Festaff is that it's a private company and your work hours are making the directors richer - there's no charitable element to it, which is important for me when I give my time.

    Have you actually worked for Oxfam, Shelter and War child  which are charities and seen how they have treated stewards. 

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  21. Visiting the site

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    On 7/24/2023 at 8:43 PM, Crazyfool01 said:

    The official line is no …. But people do ( and I have ) be respectful steer clear of any work going on ( site should be back as fields by then ) it should be ok . 

    A hell of a lot of us are not getting this at all. Who are you to tell people that they can gain access to all of these many many  different farms that make up Glastonbury

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  23. Visiting the site

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    On 7/26/2023 at 8:38 PM, Ommadawn said:

    I always thought the official line was to ask at the festival office beforehand. I've never known the answer to be no (out of the festival build and dismantling of course).

    What festival office. Its a working farm. its a lot of different farms. There are footpaths 

  25. Visiting the site

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    On 7/24/2023 at 8:43 PM, Crazyfool01 said:

    The official line is no …. But people do ( and I have ) be respectful steer clear of any work going on ( site should be back as fields by then ) it should be ok . 

    Its somebodies else property isn't it

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