Tuesday, July 23, 2024
We hope you're looking forward to joining us at Camp Bestival Dorset this week!
If you haven't already seen, you can view your shift pattern in your Hotbox Events PAAM account in the same place where you selected your shift preferences!
If you've only just applied to join us, or only just selected your shift preferences your shift pattern may still be pending, we're allocating shift patterns daily to check back tomorrow so see which shift pattern you have!
The arrival info for Camp Bestival Dorset has changed this year, please make sure you check it out in the Info Pack in the PAAM Portal before you arrive!
All staff, paid stewards and volunteers are now required to go to Pink Gate on arrival. Here you will have your right to work in the UK checked and collect your festival accreditation. Once accredited please head around to Yellow Gate to access the crew car park and Hotbox compound of the crew campsite.
NEW for 2024! We will be running a free shuttle bus from Wareham Station to Pink Gate and then to Yellow Gate on Wednesday 24th July. There's no need to book, just wait for the shuttle bus to come back around to your stop!
There's lots of useful documents to read and familiarise yourself with in the PAAM Portal before the festival so please check it out if you haven't already!
Please don't forget to bring documents to prove your right to work in the UK to the festival.
The options for this are:
We cannot accept photocopies or photographs! We are legally required to see the original documents in person at the festival. We have a safe in the Hotbox office where we can keep documents during the festival if you would prefer not to store them in your tent.
A driving license is not proof of your right to work in the UK. Every year volunteers arrive with their driving license as proof of right to work in the UK and unfortunately need to asked to head back home to collect other documents to prove their right to work in the UK. Please don't let it be you!
We're receiving a huge volume of emails and messages in the lead up to both Camp Bestival Dorset and Latitude this week. Many questions can be answered in our website FAQs, or in the Info Pack in the PAAM Portal. If we're not able to get back to you as quickly as we would like to, you can pop into our Facebook Group for information and advice from our other Camp Bestival Dorset staff and volunteers!
We look forward to seeing you at Camp Bestival Dorset this week!
If there is anything you would like to ask or you would just like to chat with us about, the easiest way is to...
You can connect with us @hotboxevents on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn
If you would like to chat with others who have joined us before head to our Facebook Group and Forum
On Facebook and in our Forum you will find new and returning staff and volunteers chatting about what it is like to join us at festivals, arranging to share lifts, asking and answering questions about working at festivals and making new friends!
If you have not joined us at a festival before and are wondering what it is like, check out some of our staff and volunteer interviews!
In the interviews you will get to hear from those who have joined us talking about how they found their shifts, how they felt they were looked after by the Hotbox team, what it was like working solo for the first time, taking on more responsibility year on year, and even how the experience and confidence gained has helped with career progression away from festivals!
Another way to see what joining us is like is to check out some of our festival photos!
In our festival photo galleries, you will find thousands of photos covering our festival history over the past twenty years!
It's totally normal to be anxious before coming to a festival, particularly if you're coming solo! We get hundreds of messages every year from people wanting to join us but nervous about doing it, so we promise you're not alone! We're a very friendly bunch so if there's anything we can do to reduce your anxiety please get in touch! Try joining our Facebook Group to make friends with others before the festival - there are even a few WhatsApp groups that have been set up too!
If you have specific questions about joining us at festivals try our festival FAQs!
Our festival FAQs are regularly updated and packed full of answers to the questions we are usually asked, plus lots of handy hints and tips about working at festivals.
We usually send an email newsletter about once a month, if you would like to keep up to date you can subscribe!
If you would like to drop us an email it's info@hotboxevents.com
You can reach our office by phone on the numbers below...
Tel: 01252849600 (UK) select option 2 for Hotbox Events
Tel: +441252849600 (International) select option 2 for Hotbox Events
