Oxfam Festivals

Make amazing things happen, not just for one weekend but for life. Volunteer your time and join the fight for a fairer world.

Volunteering with Oxfam is a fun and rewarding way to experience festivals across the UK. Join a friendly community of volunteers, make friends for life, and get lots of time off to explore the festival!

You’ll also get all the training you need, crew camping, a meal voucher for every shift, hot showers, free tea and coffee, and phone charging.

Whether you’re a seasoned pro or new to festivals, we’d love for you to join us next summer.

Stewarding

Festival stewards carry out a range of important roles to make sure the festival runs smoothly. You could be checking tickets at the gate, patrolling the campsites and arena, or staffing the accessibility platforms.

Shifts:

Weekend Festival: 3 x 8¼-hour shifts, usually split between a morning, day, and night shift.

Day Show: 1 shift no longer than 8-hours and finishing before the headline act.

Which festivals: Keep an eye out for our 2026 lineup announcement early in the new year. In 2025, stewarding was available across 36 incredible weekend festivals and day shows!

How to apply: You can sign up to steward with just a few clicks. Stewarding positions are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, making it accessible for anyone to sign up as long as there are available spots.

Campaigning

Our campaigners are the face of Oxfam, engaging festivalgoers with our current campaign work. If you’re passionate about climate justice and good with talking to people, this could be the role for you.

Shifts: 4 x 6-hour daytime shifts.

Which festivals: Keep an eye out for our 2026 lineup announcement early in the new year. In 2025 we campaigned at Download, Isle of Wight, Glastonbury, Latitude, Wilderness, Boardmasters, Reading and Leeds, Wide Awake, Field Day, Cross the Tracks and Mighty Hoopla.

How to apply: We are looking for excellent communicators with plenty of energy who will be confident approaching and conversing with members of the public and acting as an ambassador for Oxfam. If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!

Whether you are new to campaigning or are an existing campaigning legend, read on to find out what’s involved in the application process.

Shop volunteers

Our team of shop volunteers help run our festival shops, staffing the tills, restocking, and engaging with festivalgoers.

Shifts: One 6-hour shift a day, rotating between morning, afternoon, and evening shifts.

Which festivals: Keep an eye out for our 2026 lineup announcement early in the new year. In 2025 we took the shop on tour to Bearded Theory, Download, Glastonbury, Latitude, Wilderness, Boomtown, Shambala and Leeds.

How to apply: Shop volunteering is now closed for 2025. In 2026 we will open to current shop volunteers, interns, or members of staff with at least three months of experience.

Each year, our volunteers help raise over an incredible £1.5 million for Oxfam! On top of that, in 2024, our campaigners helped spread our climate justice message to thousands of festivalgoers, gathering over 43,000 actions, and our shop staff prevented over 9 tonnes of clothing from ending up in landfills!

Collectively, our amazing family of volunteers have an unmeasurable impact in our fight against poverty, and for climate justice.