Volunteering 2025

[efcfanwirral]

50 minutes ago, sedra said:

Oxfam deadline for cancellations was yesterday so any returns are likely to be released soon so make sure he has an account set up and check out oxfam festivals social media pages and the festivals account pages daily as they might announce it this week. Last year they were released in a 2nd batch in first week in May with a few odd ones later. https://festivals.oxfam.org.uk

 

Yep and we'll all be putting stuff in this thread when we see it 

[RichardWaller]

Probably a daft question, but when I log in all the sold out ones are greyed out, Glastonbury is greyed out and says signed up next to it. Will it stay greyed out if other slots do come available cos I'm signed up? Been nagging my sister to give it a go.. May just be a case of refreshing this thread every five minutes for the next 6 weeks.

[stuie]

6 minutes ago, RichardWaller said:

Probably a daft question, but when I log in all the sold out ones are greyed out, Glastonbury is greyed out and says signed up next to it. Will it stay greyed out if other slots do come available cos I'm signed up? Been nagging my sister to give it a go.. May just be a case of refreshing this thread every five minutes for the next 6 weeks.

 

I think it'll stay greyed out, the same as if you have a date clash with a pre booked event. 

[TheBoz]

1 hour ago, RichardWaller said:

Probably a daft question, but when I log in all the sold out ones are greyed out, Glastonbury is greyed out and says signed up next to it. Will it stay greyed out if other slots do come available cos I'm signed up? Been nagging my sister to give it a go.. May just be a case of refreshing this thread every five minutes for the next 6 weeks.

Your sister will need to create an account and it will currently say sold out. If/when places because available she's be able to sign up then

[Chris_R]

5 hours ago, Leyrulion said:

Our of curiosity is that something you'll be able to do easily from waiting lists your org/charity has?

 

We managed a few of those requested from our waiting list yes - the problem is we started as a new team last year, and a few just dropped out after doing it saying it's not for them. So we still had to get others onboard.
It's similar to how our team started last year, was all very last minute post ticket resale day - have to get a bunch of courses and training done as well as all the shift rotas (and the inevitable swaps).

It also means those new starters didn't get a look in at things like the camper/caravan slots as they will have all been snapped up by now.

[Leyrulion]

1 hour ago, Chris_R said:

 

We managed a few of those requested from our waiting list yes - the problem is we started as a new team last year, and a few just dropped out after doing it saying it's not for them. So we still had to get others onboard.
It's similar to how our team started last year, was all very last minute post ticket resale day - have to get a bunch of courses and training done as well as all the shift rotas (and the inevitable swaps).

It also means those new starters didn't get a look in at things like the camper/caravan slots as they will have all been snapped up by now.

Thanks! I think volunteer opportunities like yours are probably the best way to get in volunteering right now. It's just finding they connection to start with that's hard as it's all word of mouth. 

[Skip997]

My Cause have cancelled a number of volunteer positions at Glastonbury. Don’t know why 

[broken monkey]

Yep, just had that lovely email come through after recently getting a spot with them. Devastated! 

[stuie]

1 minute ago, broken monkey said:

Yep, just had that lovely email come through after recently getting a spot with them. Devastated! 

 

So they confirmed you had a place and then emailed you to say you didn't?

That's a pretty poor show.  I'm sorry that's happened to you 😞 

[Someoni]

[broken monkey]

15 minutes ago, stuie said:

 

So they confirmed you had a place and then emailed you to say you didn't?

That's a pretty poor show.  I'm sorry that's happened to you 😞 

 

Yep. Only joined the WhatsApp group this morning and now about half of the people on there have had their spots cancelled. 

 

One person had an Oxfam place too which they only just cancelled yesterday. How gutting must it be to suddenly go from having 2 spots to suddenly having nothing.

 

Not a great first Glastonbury impression for MyCauseUK.

[Skip997]

1 minute ago, broken monkey said:

 

Not a great first Glastonbury impression for MyCauseUK.

I suspect this is a festival decision and beyond My Cause 

[dondo]

26 minutes ago, broken monkey said:

Yep, just had that lovely email come through after recently getting a spot with them. Devastated! 

 

24 minutes ago, stuie said:

 

So they confirmed you had a place and then emailed you to say you didn't?

That's a pretty poor show.  I'm sorry that's happened to you 😞 

Just saw something on Facebook about this

 

Sorry to hear this @broken monkey and anyone else it's happened to. 

[incident]

9 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

I suspect this is a festival decision and beyond My Cause 

Yeah, almost certainly. But they're the front line and so are the ones who will take the flack.

 

I know that sometimes Oxfam have had numbers changed on them (both up and down) after they've recruited - but that they have a much larger number to start with and enough people predictably cancel that they could absorb it without taking away anyones place.

Edited May 2, 2025 by incident

[deepkittycaz]

10 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

I suspect this is a festival decision and beyond My Cause 

Indeed. But the timing is awful 

[broken monkey]

18 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

I suspect this is a festival decision and beyond My Cause 

 

Oh, I'm sure its out of their control and they've done everything they can to avoid this. Just wonder if it will put people off from applying with them in the future if you feel your place isn't guaranteed, even after being confirmed.

[dotdash79]

23 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

I suspect this is a festival decision and beyond My Cause 

I also suspect that the festival could work with other organisations to get them to bring on the My Cause volunteers with any spares they might have, but won't.

[Crazyfool01]

2 minutes ago, broken monkey said:

 

Oh, I'm sure its out of their control and they've done everything they can to avoid this. Just wonder if it will put people off from applying with them in the future if you feel your place isn't guaranteed, even after being confirmed.

so all in on oxfam places now ? how crap like others have said . will add more pressure to the pot for those I guess 

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, dotdash79 said:

I also suspect that the festival could work with other organisations to get them to bring on the My Cause volunteers with any spares they might have, but won't.

yeah exactly that 

[Paul ™]

Poor show by MyCause, I don't think they should have been taking those roles anyway personally and am not a fan of their business model anyway.

 

Pretty gutting to be put out of the loop by them after the resale too! 

[bob323]

why would GFL change the number of tickets at sucha late stage?

would it down to a screw up?

[incident]

Just now, bob323 said:

why would GFL change the number of tickets at sucha late stage?

would it down to a screw up?

It's more that they'd be changing the number of positions being covered, or the times that they were. Or changing the balance of those positions between how much is done paid staff and how much by volunteers.

 

Any number of possible reasons why that could occur, especially when it's not something that's "settled".

 

The number of tickets/places is a knock on from that.

[Ben7amin_]

I have a friend who's normally an Oxfammer who has just been cut loose by them. So hoping some other places can come up. 

 

Be good if Oxfam could find a way of giving first dibs of any late places that come up to these people. 

 

 

[bob323]

it's a bit unfair to have the allocated ticket numbers not settled,

especially since they're getting people to commit to the various charities/ groups

either that or the various groups need to be more honest to people about the fact it's not a guarenteed place

[Paul ™]

Wonder if MyCause refund the deposits in full or keep their admin fee