Thursday, January 25, 2024
We're coming to you this grey and wintery Thursday with a breaking news announcement! 💥
We know how important it is to have money in your pocket at the moment, we're therefore pleased to announce the festival organisers have agreed that we can reduce the Reading and Leeds Festival deposits for 2024 to bring them in-line with our other events! ☄️
This means Reading and Leeds Festival deposits will be reducing by a whopping 35% to £95 if you're a new volunteer or to £45 if you're a returning volunteer! 🙌
So, if you were planning on applying to join us at Reading and Leeds Festival tomorrow you'll have an extra £50 in your pocket this weekend! 😍
Refundable deposits to join us at Download, Latitude, Camp Bestival Dorset and Camp Bestival Shropshire will be staying at the same rate as last year, which means a deposit 'top-up' is no longer required if you'd also like to attend Reading and Leeds Festival!
Therefore, one deposit of £95 (or £45 if you've joined us at a festival before) will cover you for a whole summer of incredible events! 🎪
If you're planning on joining us at Download, Latitude, Camp Bestival Dorset or Camp Bestival Shropshire this summer and have never been to Reading and Leeds, perhaps this is your sign to add it on to your application! 🎆
As always, deposits are fully refundable so your deposit will be returned IN FULL after the festival - we don't take any admin fees! Similarly, if you need to cancel your place for any reason you can do so until 20 days before the arrival date of the festival and get every penny of your deposit returned!
Applications to join us at our 2024 festivals open at midday TOMORROW ‼️ Make sure your alarms are set and your speediest internet is waiting as the fastest finger first battle for the earliest deposit payment date (thus eligibility for the best shift patterns) commences! 🏃♂️ 💨 💨
We've been talking with the festival organisers and we're expecting fewer towers at Latitude, Reading and Leeds Festival this summer!
Although we know the number of towers will be reducing, we're not yet aware how many towers there are planned to be, meaning we don't currently know how many paid tower steward positions we're able to offer.
We've therefore taken the decision to hold on opening Latitude tower steward applications tomorrow as the last thing we want to do is offer roles and then find out in a few weeks' time that there are fewer positions available and we need to cancel positions offered.
This won't affect applications for Reading and Leeds Festival as if you're volunteering at Reading and Leeds you choose your preference of being of being on the ground (CAT) in the campsites or on the towers a few weeks before the festival when completing your shift preference selection. It also won't affect applications opening for volunteer CATs and Pixies at Latitude.
We're sorry for the delay in the Latitude tower steward application launch - we had hoped to have confirmation of the number of roles required before we open tomorrow. We hope to open applications for Latitude towers soon, once we've received confirmation of how many roles are required at Latitude. Stay tuned to our newsletters and socials for updates.
If you'd like to join us at Latitude and would like to make sure you've definitely got a place there, you're welcome to apply to volunteer as a CAT or Pixie when applications open tomorrow! 🧚
We can't wait to see you in a festival field this summer!
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
