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!
Well what a week that was! From going from the Scottish Highlands on holiday where there were no people, to 80,000 at Download!!! This was my first time volunteering, usually being a Download ticket holder, and my husband came for the first time at all. We are 49 & 50 so weren’t too sure what to expect to be honest, but from the day one briefing we met a like minded person about the same age and that was it! We didn’t camp as we only live 20 minutes away and have pets to feed, and think this may have stopped us getting to know more people than if we had camped, however everyone we saw did say hi which was nice!
The role itself was fun and we met some great festival goers who we saw over and over again by working on the campervan site for each shift which was nice. Both supervisors, Greg and Rob were great and realised pretty quickly that we had common sense and could just get on with things. We also worked alongside another married couple of a similar age which was really great and we will be staying in touch with them.
All being well we'll see you again next year!!
