Volunteering 2023

[lmaltby1001]

Will be travelling down on the Monday, but will possibly be in a camper van- long story, car will be out of action, camper only option. 
will we be ok to park it in the carpark? Will be going on to Toms field to camp, but worried camper wont be allowed in carpark. 

[faymondo]

The live chat addition is testing the Distil patience !!

[Tr234]

Those with oxfam, what are the phone charging facilities like? Are they good enough to not take a portable charger?

[Skip997]

2 minutes ago, Tr234 said:

Those with oxfam, what are the phone charging facilities like? Are they good enough to not take a portable charger?

Not done Glastonbury with Oxfam, but they were fine at Shambala. No need for a portable charger, just take your plug and lead.

[stuie]

7 minutes ago, Tr234 said:

Those with oxfam, what are the phone charging facilities like? Are they good enough to not take a portable charger?

They work, but I take my own. 

[dondo]

13 minutes ago, stuie said:

They work, but I take my own. 

The one in the recycling crew tent looks very similar! Hence I take my own too

[jfaragher]

1 hour ago, stuie said:

They work, but I take my own. 

Also, you don't want to be hanging around camp waiting for your phone to charge - take a battery pack, and you can charge when you sleep!  You can always charge your battery pack up (though it is slow) - but make sure to put your name on your battery and your charging plug thingy, less likely it will be picked up by accident by someone else.

[chestwig]

Anybody in the last week had any success with Glasto Oxfam from these boards?

 

 

[gazzared]

5 minutes ago, chestwig said:

Anybody in the last week had any success with Glasto Oxfam from these boards?

 

 

I think that if any become available Oxfam will wait until they have a few and then release them in a controlled manner rather than releasing the odd one here and there and then having to Keep processing individual the places and creating more work for themselves. As it would be easier to process bulk applications.

That's just my thinking.. maybe completely wrong 🤷🏼‍♂️

[Lisanextdoor]

29 minutes ago, chestwig said:

Anybody in the last week had any success with Glasto Oxfam from these boards?

 

 

I’ve had nothing. Still trying 🤞

[sedra]

No nothing 🙁

[sedra]

1 hour ago, gazzared said:

I think that if any become available Oxfam will wait until they have a few and then release them in a controlled manner rather than releasing the odd one here and there and then having to Keep processing individual the places and creating more work for themselves. As it would be easier to process bulk applications.

That's just my thinking.. maybe completely wrong 🤷🏼‍♂️

They are releasing other sold out festivals randomly so I don’t think that’s the case 

[faymondo]

Seems to be a drought at the moment. Just one of us would be nice to increase morale. 

[Johnnyseven]

10 minutes ago, faymondo said:

Seems to be a drought at the moment. Just one of us would be nice to increase morale. 

I bet they save them up until i'm at Bearded Theory with no internet.

[Leyrulion]

23 minutes ago, sedra said:

They are releasing other sold out festivals randomly so I don’t think that’s the case 

Either there's no cancellations or they know about the proceed/ code editing hack and are saving up a few to release all at once to try to combat it. 

[Radiopaste]

I've seen nothing either! I agree, someone here getting one would really boost my moral! 

[RogerParticle]

Same here, not seen anything for over a week

[March Hare]

It’s the grey zone between the free cancellation window and people’s life events happing close enough to the festival to warrant them cancelling.

[Lisanextdoor]

Noticed bearded has come off the drip down list altogether today. It’s this weekend. There was a place yesterday. So really we might all have to hang on in here until just days before 😱

[faymondo]

30 minutes ago, Lisanextdoor said:

Noticed bearded has come off the drip down list altogether today. It’s this weekend. There was a place yesterday. So really we might all have to hang on in here until just days before 😱

I noticed there was a Bearded option yesterday. Clicked on it just to see and you had to be on site today so assuming thats why it has now gone.

I knew this was going to be the long game but thought there might have been a very slow drip of Glastonbury spaces. 

[Johnnyseven]

7 hours ago, faymondo said:

I noticed there was a Bearded option yesterday. Clicked on it just to see and you had to be on site today so assuming thats why it has now gone.

I knew this was going to be the long game but thought there might have been a very slow drip of Glastonbury spaces. 

They do still seem to be releasing slots on the 00 and 30 min mark but just not Glasto at the moment, so at least our strategy seems to be sound. Goes to show there are a lot of movements happening, so it's still possible.

[Isaaclk]

On 5/23/2023 at 3:35 PM, jfaragher said:

Also, you don't want to be hanging around camp waiting for your phone to charge - take a battery pack, and you can charge when you sleep!  You can always charge your battery pack up (though it is slow) - but make sure to put your name on your battery and your charging plug thingy, less likely it will be picked up by accident by someone else.

or just straight up stolen like mine last year grrrr. It had enough unique features to make it not be taken by accident

[naivetyplay]

1 hour ago, Johnnyseven said:

They do still seem to be releasing slots on the 00 and 30 min mark but just not Glasto at the moment, so at least our strategy seems to be sound. Goes to show there are a lot of movements happening, so it's still possible.

As Lenny Kravitz once said: 

… Here we are still together
We are one
So much time wasted
Playing games with Oxfam places

… So many tears I've cried
So much pain inside
But baby, it ain't over 'til it's over
So many weeks we've tried
To keep our dream alive
But baby, it ain't over 'til it's over

 

Something like that anyway.

[faymondo]

2 hours ago, Johnnyseven said:

They do still seem to be releasing slots on the 00 and 30 min mark but just not Glasto at the moment, so at least our strategy seems to be sound. Goes to show there are a lot of movements happening, so it's still possible.

I have had no pings today at all on my Distill 

[March Hare]

2 hours ago, Isaaclk said:

or just straight up stolen like mine last year grrrr. It had enough unique features to make it not be taken by accident

A mate of mine had a battery pack taken. No excuse really when it’s clearly marked. While the Oxfield is much more secure than general camping you should still exercise some caution with your belongings. Come Wednesday get anything valuable in a lockup