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Festival Event
Staff.
Festival event staff for brands, agencies and organisers across the UK. We supply activation teams, sampling teams, sponsor bar staff and entry point teams. Book two people for a tasting stand or a full team across a four-day camping weekend.
Festival staff hire for activations, sampling, sponsor bars and entry points.
On festival sites since 2007
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Festival roles we staff
Festival staff hire for every part of your space.
Music weekends, food and drink shows, beer and gin festivals, film and arts programmes, dog shows, running festivals and race meetings all draw different crowds.
Tell us the festival and the audience, and we build the mix of roles around them on one booking.
Brand activation teams
The people at the front of your build. They invite the crowd in, run the game or the photo moment and keep visitors moving between sets. Part of a wider brand activation.
Sampling and tasting teams
Staff hand out drinks, snacks and products from the stand or on foot through the crowd. We brief stock counts and age checks in advance. See product sampling at events.
Sponsor and brand bar teams
Pouring teams for a brand's own bar, where the serve is part of the activation. We brief them on the range, the perfect serve and the key messages before the first pour.
Wristband and entry point teams
Wristband exchange, ticket scanning, information points and directions at the gates and between arenas, with customer service at every point. We set out the access rules for each area beforehand. Not security or stewarding.
Characters and walkabouts
Costumed characters for family fields and photo moments, always with a chaperone alongside. More on our costume characters.
Site leads and team leaders
On larger bookings a site lead runs the team and handles site management: breaks, shift changes and the festival production office. They keep you updated through the day.
Why brands book us
Checked, briefed and run live.
Right to work and ID confirmed before anyone is put forward for site passes. Employer's and Public Liability cover on every booking. Alcohol licensing, food hygiene and DBS added when the space calls for them.
Arrival route, staff parking or camping, accreditation pick-up, zone plan and who to call: the practical brief sits alongside the product and the key messages.
Every team member is paid through our PAYE, with National Insurance and HR in-house. The whole festival sits on one itemised quote.
Shift reminders, geo-tagged check-ins and live attendance tracking each day. A 24/7 support line is answered day and night while your shifts run.
Where we fit
Not an indoor shift moved outside.
A festival shift is not an indoor shift moved outside. The day starts before the gates, the crowd arrives in waves around the line-up, the weather turns, and the walk from staff parking to your space can take twenty minutes. Teams who have worked sites before plan for all of that.
You or your agency own the build, the stock and the licences. We supply the people. We select them for the site and the audience and brief them on the brand, the zone plan and the accreditation route. A 24/7 support line is answered day and night while your shifts run. We don't supply licensed security, stewarding or production staff.
Festivals our teams have worked
From headline weekends to food shows.
Teams come from the staffing hub nearest the site, across 40 hubs in the UK. Festival not listed here? Tell us in your quote request.
Checks and cover
Insured and ready.
From the case files
Festivals our teams have worked.
Headline weekends, food shows, city parks and showgrounds, each staffed, briefed and managed by our own team. See all recent work →
Verified feedback
Why brands bring us back each summer.
Booking, step by step
From your brief to a team on site.
Site, dates, opening hours for your space, the roles and headcount for each day, and how staff get on site (parking, camping, shuttle).
Every role, day and shift on its own line, with no hidden fees.
People matched on festival experience and location, names supplied for accreditation by your deadline, and an account manager once you approve.
A written brand and site briefing before the gates open, then attendance tracked live and breaks managed across every day.
Get a quote
Get a quote for festival staff.
Request a quote
Request your festival quote.
Tell us the festival, the dates, the hours your space is open and the roles you need.
Booking through your festival events agency? They can send the brief, and the quote comes back to whoever asked.
Buyer questions
Festival staffing: what organisers and brands ask.
Which festival roles do you supply?
Brand activation and sampling teams, sponsor bar staff, wristband exchange and information points, characters, and site leads over them. Licensed security, stewarding, medical cover and site production aren't roles we supply. For staffing at events beyond festivals, see event staffing.
Do you supply promotional staff for festivals?
Yes. Promotional teams at festivals sit on the same booking as your bar and entry teams, briefed together. For a team that stays with your brand across a summer of festivals, see our brand ambassadors.
Can the same team work every day of a multi-day festival?
Yes, and it saves briefing the site twice. Tell us whether staff camping, parking or a shuttle is available, because that shapes who can stay on site for the whole run.
Do you build the space or supply the bar and kit?
No. Structures, bars, stock, power and licences come from you, the organiser or your production company. We supply and manage the people working in the space you have built.
How do you handle long days, heat and late finishes?
We plan shifts and breaks around the opening hours of your space. On larger teams a site lead rotates people. The briefing covers kit for the weather, water and shade, and the route off site after the last set.
What drives the cost of festival staff hire?
The roles, headcount per day, the number of days, opening hours and late finishes, the site location and any licensing or certificates the space needs. We build the quote from your brief and itemise it line by line.
When should we book for the summer season?
As soon as you confirm your dates and space. Peak weekends in June, July and August pull every available team onto the same dates, and accreditation deadlines often fall weeks before the gates open. Single-day food and drink shows are often workable at shorter notice.
Which parts of the UK do you cover?
Festival sites anywhere in the UK, from 40 staffing hubs, with teams drawn from the hub nearest the site. That includes festival teams in London.