Welcome to the Hotbox Events staff and volunteer community!
We hope you enjoy watching our festival staff and volunteer interviews, having a browse of our photo galleries, chatting in our Facebook Group and Forum, connecting and sharing on our social channels, and please don't forget to keep up to date by joining our newsletter!
Head to our Facebook Group to chat with Hotbox staff and volunteers about this summer's festivals, get advice about what to pack, offer and find lifts to the festivals, share photos and videos...
Making sure that every volunteer and member of staff who joins us has the best possible experience is of upmost importance to everyone involved with Hotbox Events.
If you've not volunteered or worked as part of a staff team at a festival before and you're wondering what it's like; have a watch of some of our festival staff and volunteer interviews!
You’ll get to hear from volunteers who have joined us at festivals such as Download, Latitude, Reading and Leeds, talking about how they found their shifts, how they were looked after by the Hotbox team, what it was like volunteering for the first time on their own, taking on more responsibility year on year and progressing from a volunteer to staff role, and even how the experience and confidence gained has helped with their career progression away from festivals!
Hotbox Events began its life recruiting and managing volunteers for the 2003 Leeds Festival, since then our volunteers have managed to escape to the Reading Festival in 2006, then Latitude Festival in 2008, and V Festival in 2016!
With so little control there really is no telling what you may find in the galleries!
Volunteering at this year's Download was so much fun!!
This was my first Download and the first time I’ve worked a festival (and I came by myself). Needless to say I was quite nervous and I was unsure what to expect, but as soon as I pitched my tent fellow volunteers introduced themselves and made me feel very much at ease and even though I had never been to Download, I felt a sense of home and belonging.
My first shift was the Wednesday-Thursday night shift and was in the village. I was really nervous, I didn’t know anybody, wasn’t quite sure what to expect but the night shift village Dog Squad supervisor Josh, made the team feel very much at ease and instilled confidence in us.
It was a long shift, but not because of the shift or work itself but because I had been awake since half 3 the day before to get the bus down so as you can imagine I was pretty exhausted at the end of that shift, but I was surprised at how fun it was.
And that was just the first day, each day and each shift just continued to get better and better.
I would seriously recommend volunteering, and not just Download festival, but for Hotbox Events themselves and all the other festivals they cover. They are an amazing team of people and everyone looks out for each other and the will bend over backwards to help you and make things more workable and they make you feel like family.
If you are like me and have never done anything like this before and If you’re unsure and sat on the fence whether to do it or not I would wholeheartedly recommend you do it, I promise you, you won’t regret it!! It’s the best time and not only the work but you get plenty of time to enjoy the festival as a fan too.
Thank you so much Hotbox, you really made me feel at ease and like part of a family. Was a truly rockin’ rollin’ week.
SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!!!
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