Festaff applications

[Funkyfairy!]

Sounds like the 'Kayne factor' is not affecting the number of people wanting to attend (not necessarily pay) to go to Glastonbury

I think applications for wristbanding (maybe stewarding) staff went live today for new applicants and has closed already

Festaff facebook page

Huge thanks to everyone who has applied for Glastonbury 2015. We've had unprecedented demand for our positins and have now closed applications. If there are any further posts in the future we will annouce them through social media. thanks to one and all !!!

Reading back the posters seem to suggest that applications have remained open for a number of days/weeks in previous years

[Cieran]

I think I had applied at about 12:05, would have been 12:00 on the dot but I was having issues logging into my paypal account, really really badly hope I have got this

[adzman64]

It closed after an hour's worth of applications.

Last year it took a week before they closed it.

They have had a crazy amount of applications, great company to work for though.

[karl_uk]

I've applied for this after missing out in the ticket sale.

What are the chances of actually being accepted? Presuming I should hedge my bets and try in the resale anyway?

[Cieran]

I've applied for this after missing out in the ticket sale.

What are the chances of actually being accepted? Presuming I should hedge my bets and try in the resale anyway?

I'm going to try the same also, would be nice to get a response back before the resales start.

[Cieran]

Anyone know where the festaff campsite it usually located?

[incident]

Toms Field

[VisionOfLove]

with these voluntary tickets what's to stop an individual signing up to volunteer and then just not working any shifts once they are inside the festival. i understand you pay a deposit which the price of a ticket?, so i'm sure many people wouldn't mind losing this deposit money if they had been unsuccessful in the general sale, as a means of getting inside the festival? always wondered this!

[taff 5]

They do have ways to prevent this and make life very difficult for you, but what an incredibly selfish thing to even suggest. If every one of the volunteers had that attitude the festival would literally collapse overnight and have to be shut down.

[VisionOfLove]

They do have ways to prevent this and make life very difficult for you, but what an incredibly selfish thing to even suggest. If every one of the volunteers had that attitude the festival would literally collapse overnight and have to be shut down.

It was a completely "out of curiosity" question, as I am sure other people have thought about and have asked in the past. Luckily I have my ticket and would never dream of doing the aforementioned, but it's something I have often wondered. There must be a fair number of people who volunteer and get a little too tuned in and miss their shifts as well surely?

[the wonderwhy]

Nothing, you just get blacklisted in the future.

[LondonTom]

with these voluntary tickets what's to stop an individual signing up to volunteer and then just not working any shifts once they are inside the festival. i understand you pay a deposit which the price of a ticket?, so i'm sure many people wouldn't mind losing this deposit money if they had been unsuccessful in the general sale, as a means of getting inside the festival? always wondered this!

You go on a blacklist after the fest and for this reason alot of the deposits are higher than the ticket price now.

[payneruk]

And a lot of (or all of) the volunteers wages are paid to charities instead of the workers. So it's like stealing £200+ from a charity box = bad karma

[Cieran]

Toms Field

Where is that? I couldn't see it on the map from last year

[the wonderwhy]

Where is that? I couldn't see it on the map from last year

I think it's the crew/performer camping bit up above Big Ground near the recycling centre.

[Pinhead]

Its above Big Ground and Worthy Farm.

[mafu87]

You have to hand over your passport/ID too. So it's not just the deposit you will be loosing.

Edited April 10, 2015 by mafu87

[Pink_Tequila]

You have to hand over your passport/ID too. So it's not just the deposit you will be loosing.

Wouldn't hand my passport over to anyone, very surprised at this as I am not sure they are allowed to do that. I do know that catching volunteer runaways is a good game for security and the record is three minutes, photos are circulated around and they like catching people!

[Cieran]

I've just been accepted by Festaff!

[Cieran]

Anyone that has volunteered before, are there any food stands open on the Monday and Tuesday before the festival starts?

[MrZigster]

Wouldn't hand my passport over to anyone, very surprised at this as I am not sure they are allowed to do that...

Quite!

NEVER DO THIS!

It's how people get tricked into modern day slavery. See UAE/Qatar builders.

[MrZigster]

I've worked for Shelter twice and they were happy with a photocopy of my passport main page (although I am pretty sure it is easy to fake a photocopied passport main page. Go figure?)

[karl_uk]

I've just been accepted by Festaff!

Me too

[Festivalyeah]

Anyone who has worked at Glastonbury with festaff know what the shift times are like? it says you can choose a shift out of groups A,B, or C?

[sparkythetortoise]

Anyone that has volunteered before, are there any food stands open on the Monday and Tuesday before the festival starts?

There are a limited number, but enough for you to find something. There's also a vegi cafe within Tom's field, which primarily dishes out the coupon food for the recyclers. You can buy the food, though I think the cash value they put on the meals is high compared to the better commercial staffs out in the festival. I do eat there (but only because the food is effectively free for me) but it means you can get something to eat on your tent's doorstep if, as stated above, you are camping in Tom's Field.