Festival Campaigning

Festivals have a long history rooted in activism. They’re places where people come together to celebrate music, culture, and community, and where people are most open to new ideas. As an Oxfam campaigner, you’ll help turn that energy into action, sparking conversations, gathering support, and connecting festivalgoers to campaigns that change lives.

• Start conversations with festivalgoers about Oxfam’s campaigns
• Run fun activities that help people connect to the issues
• Ask people to add their voice to Oxfam’s campaign action
• Volunteer 6-hour daytime shifts (usually 11am-5pm), meaning a lie in and evenings free to see the headline acts

• Free entry to some of the UK’s biggest festivals
• Every evening off to enjoy the headliners
• Full training and on-shift support
• A friendly, welcoming team and instant friends to enjoy the festival with

• Confidence in public-speaking and grassroots campaigning
• Experience that looks great on your CV
• Lasting friendships with fellow campaigners and volunteers
• The chance to be part of a movement pushing for a fairer, more equal world

Before your first shift, you’ll be given all the training and tips you need to feel confident and supported in your role.

Each day, you’ll meet with the team and head into the festival together where you will also have a dedicated meeting point if you need any support during your shift.

You’ll go out in pairs, engaging with members of the public, and asking them to take part in a small action, before coming back together as a team at the end of the shift.

With a small team, you’ll get to know each other quickly and have an already formed group to go out and enjoy the festival with!

Next summer, we will be building on our successful No More Radio Silence campaign, raising awareness of the world’s forgotten crisis through art, music and poetry.

In 2025, our campaigners spoke with thousands of people collectively, about the growing “radio silence” around major humanitarian crises, including:

• In Gaza, where war crimes are going unchecked and tens of thousands of Palestinian people have been killed
• In Sudan, where a brutal power struggle has led to civil war displacing millions of people
• Across Ethiopia, Kenya and much of East Africa, where the worst hunger crisis in living memory is forcing millions towards famine.

Our campaigners asked festivalgoers to add their names in solidarity, giving them access to our Radio Silence Audiobook – packed full of tips and inspiration to help them turn up, tune in and reconnect.

We also ran creative activities including:

• A giant communal paint-by-numbers mural that brought people together through art.
• A communal Malaya stitching, inspired by the textile traditions of women in Sudan and South Sudan.
• An immersive soundscape, broadcast from a converted water tank, amplifying the voices of communities living through crisis.
• A crowd-sourced Radio Silence Poem, where participants recorded their voices to contribute to a powerful collective audio piece.

These conversations and creative moments showed the power of people coming together to break the silence.

More information on how we will be building on this in 2026 will be released soon.

Not at all! Our campaigning role is open to everyone, whether you’re completely new to campaigning or already have experience. You don’t need any prior knowledge, just a willingness to get involved.

All we ask is that you feel comfortable approaching and chatting with members of the public. Don’t worry if that feels a bit daunting right now, you’ll receive full training, guidance, and ongoing support from our team to help you feel confident and prepared.