Festival staff.
A festival staff agency with 6,000+ registered staff in 40 UK hubs
Bar teams, brand teams and site crews for music, food and drink, film and arts, animal, sport and wellness festivals. One person on a stand, or more than a hundred across a long weekend.
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Festival staff are temporary workers booked for the run of a festival. They serve on bars, represent brands on activation sites and help people at entry points and around the arena, often over several long days, indoors or out.
Each team is picked for your brief on skills, experience and location, and every person is briefed before the gates open.
We supply staff for festivals across music, food, film, animals, sport and wellness
Plenty of events carry the festival name, and each one draws a different crowd. Pick yours below to see the teams we put on site and the brands we have done it for.
Music
Headline weekends, city line ups and boutique fields, with teams on the brand builds, the bars and the entry points.
See music ↓ 02Food and drink
Food shows, beer and gin festivals and street food weekends, where tasting and pouring do most of the work.
See food and drink ↓ 03Film and arts
Film screenings, comedy, theatre and book festivals, where the audience is seated, curious and in less of a rush.
See film and arts ↓ 04Animals
Dog shows and pet festivals, full of owners who stop to chat, try things and sign up.
See animals ↓ 05Sport
Festivals built around racing, running, rugby and motoring, with brands working the crowd between the action.
See sport ↓ 06Wellness
Yoga, fitness and mindful weekends, where a calm, well briefed team fits the mood of the site.
See wellness ↓Music festival staff for every part of the UK season
From Glastonbury, Download and Isle of Wight to Reading and Leeds, Creamfields and Boardmasters, we put brand teams, bar teams and entry crews on sites of every size.
Quote for a music weekendExecutional went above and beyond to fulfill our staffing requirements for our summer roadshow. The staff provided for live events were all well trained and energetic adding to the overall experience of our activation.
★★★★★ · The Team
Festival event staff for food, drink and beer festivals
Food and drink shows, beer tents and gin gardens draw a crowd that arrives hungry and ready to try things, so the team on the stand has to keep it moving.
- Tasting stands. People who hand out the product and explain it without holding up the queue.
- Pop up bars. Pouring teams for brand bars, beer tents and gin gardens, covered in more detail below.
- Street food and stage areas. Front of stand teams who bring passing crowds in and keep them talking.
Festival staff for hire at film, arts, animal, sport and wellness events
There are brand activations at festivals built around film, animals, sport and wellness too. Each draws a different crowd, so each gets a different team.
Film, comedy, theatre and books
Screenings, stand up, theatre and book festivals tend to bring a seated, curious audience with time between sessions, so the team needs to be comfortable holding a proper conversation.
Dog shows and pet festivals
Pet festivals are full of owners who stop, chat and let their dogs try things first, which makes for a friendly crowd at a tasting or a sign up.
Racing, running, rugby and motoring
Festivals built around a race, a run or a tournament, where brands work the crowd between the action and the busy spells come in waves.
Yoga, fitness and mindful weekends
Wellness festivals need a calmer kind of team: people who can explain a product quietly, look after a class sign up or hand out a tasting without turning the volume up. Tell us the site and the audience and we match the people to the mood.
- Tasting and giveaway tents
- Class and session sign ups
- Welcome and wristband points
- Brand spaces and chill out areas
Quote for a wellness weekendThey were so connected with our event, and the briefing, that guests thought they were part of our core team! We will definitely have them back again at our next film festival!
★★★★★ · Bridge The Gap Studios
Festival brand activations, staffed from the build to the bar
We staff every part of a brand's space at a festival, on one booking. The best brand activations at festivals come down to the people on them, so each person is briefed on the brand before they arrive.
The brand build team
People at the front of the build who talk to the crowd, explain the brand and keep visitors coming through all afternoon.
Tasting and giveaway teams
Drinks, snacks and products handed out from the stand, or on foot through the crowd between sets and sessions.
Characters and walkabouts
Characters for photo moments and roaming walkabouts, a favourite at family and animal festivals and easy to spot across a field.
Sign ups and competitions
Entries and opt ins collected on your own forms or app, with the exact wording agreed in the briefing.
Wristbands and entry points
Wristband exchange, ticket scanning and directions at the gates, with the access rules for each area set out in advance.
Site leads for bigger teams
On larger bookings a site lead oversees the team, coordinates the shifts and deals with the festival office for you.
The event manager was brilliant, managed the team beautifully and very responsive. The team as a whole were great, punctual, polite, professional and importantly friendly. Would highly recommend!!
★★★★★ · Engage Media
Need a role that is not listed here? Send us the brief and we will suggest the right mix of people for it.
Get a quoteFestival staff hire, from your brief to a briefed team
Two people on a tasting stand for one day, or a full bar team for a four day camping weekend, every booking takes the same route with us.
The team worked fast and adapted to our ever changing brief brilliantly, even at 23:30 the night before! On the day the activation ran brilliantly.
★★★★★ · Oranges and Lemons Productions
Send the details
The site, the dates, the opening hours for each bar or build, and the number of people for each one. Add anything the team should know about the brand.
Check the itemised quote
It usually lands within hours, with each day rate, hour and on-cost on a line of its own and no hidden fees. Billing is agreed in the quote before any work starts, and an account manager is assigned once you sign it off.
Matched, then briefed
Our operations team picks people from 6,000+ registered staff, weighing up skills, experience and location. The briefing form you fill in becomes the document they work from, and each of them has a briefing session before the festival.
Through the weekend
Your project manager stays with the booking from the first shift to the last. Shift reminders go out, check-ins are geo-tagged, attendance is watched live, and support runs 24/7.
Get a quote for festival staff
Give us the festival, the dates, the hours and the roles you have in mind. Brands book us direct or through their festival events agency, and either way the price arrives itemised.
Or call us directly on 0113 479 0075 or 0203 026 1069
Festival staff London, Leeds or anywhere else: your questions
What organisers, brands and agencies ask before they book a team for the season.
Do you staff the organiser's own bars, or only branded ones?
Both. At festivals we cover main bars run by the organiser as well as sponsor, branded and VIP bars. Tell us the bars, the sessions and the headcount for each and they are priced together.
Can the same team work every day of a multi day festival?
Yes, if that is what you want. Some clients prefer one team from the first day to the last so nobody has to be briefed twice. Say so when you ask for a price and we quote it that way.
Do you supply temp event and festival staff for a single day?
Yes. A one day food show needs the same selection, checks and briefing as a four day camping weekend, and a booking can be one person or more than a hundred.
Do you staff brand activations at music festivals and other kinds of festival alike?
Yes. The mix of roles changes more than the method does. A music weekend leans on crowd facing teams and long days, a food and drink show leans on tasting, and a film, animal or wellness festival needs people who can hold a longer, quieter conversation. Every brand activation at festivals of any kind gets the same selection and briefing.
How much does festival staff hire cost?
It depends on the roles, the hours, the number of days and where the site is, so there is no published rate. The quote is built from those details and comes back itemised, usually within hours.
Can you book a festival team at short notice?
Often, yes. Staff are available at short notice, though the more notice you can give us, the better.
Do you cover festivals in London and the rest of the UK?
Yes. London festival staff come from our 2,000+ local staff in the capital, and festivals everywhere else are covered from our other staffing hubs around the UK.
What checks are done before your staff start work?
Everyone has their right to work and their ID checked before deployment, and every booking carries Employer and Public Liability insurance. DBS checks, alcohol licensing, food hygiene certificates and risk assessments can each be provided on request.
Which are the best festival brand activations you have staffed?
A few that stand out: Budweiser Bud Live at Reading, Leeds and Creamfields, Cinch at TRNSMT, Latitude, Isle of Wight and Creamfields, Three UK at Parklife, Wireless and Latitude, and Corona at Wilderness. Music festival brand activations like these often run for several days, and the same team can stay on for all of them if you ask.
Can agencies book you as well as brands?
Yes. Some bookings come straight from the brand and others through the agency running its activation. The quote, the briefing and the team work the same way whoever sends the brief.
Is reporting included with a festival booking?
Not as standard. Reporting is priced separately and shaped to your brief, and it is settled before you confirm the booking. It can run inside your own systems, or we set up forms for it and send the results over.
Do you supply promotional staff for festivals?
Yes. The people on a festival build, the bars and the entry points can all sit on one booking. Brand teams, tasting teams and bar teams at any kind of festival are quoted and briefed together.
