Volunteering 2024

[goldfishboy]

Yeah my aim is to have a solid plan for each day so I don't get too disappointed when I inevitably have to cancel half of it.

[stuie]

6 minutes ago, Spiritdesire said:

Finding it hard not to get too fully engrossed in clashfinder seeing as I won’t know what shifts I’m on till arrival. Praying I don’t have a Friday shift!

 

3 minutes ago, efcfanwirral said:

I'm the same with Saturday! 

Sunday for me! 

Either of you Oxfam supers? If so, keep hold of details for swapsy!

[balti-pie]

3 minutes ago, Spiritdesire said:

Finding it hard not to get too fully engrossed in clashfinder seeing as I won’t know what shifts I’m on till arrival. Praying I don’t have a Friday shift!

 

Yeah, it is a bugger - i've had a tentative look but dont want to start proper planning until i know what i'm doing, and THEN i can start getting excited. If there's one specific act you're after then there's only probably one shift thats likely to make it impossible, and with the A B C D E shift plan (which probably 80-90% of us are on) youve only got about a 15% chance of a shift that knackers it up. Good odds i reckon! Pattern C has a late on the friday, from 2pm to 10pm - so thats still early enough to get at least most of a headliner in.

 

I dont mind pattern C at all, and would happily have that this year . . . get the night over and done with as soon as poss, Thursday off, Headliner on friday, saturday off all day, early finish on sunday - thats fine with me 

[efcfanwirral]

8 minutes ago, stuie said:

 

Sunday for me! 

Either of you Oxfam supers? If so, keep hold of details for swapsy!

Regular Oxfam, but in a group of 2 so would need to find another 2.

We've basically said we'll try to swap into watching all of Coldplay and take whatever else happens (which also means a good run of Saturday music - Cyndi Lauper, Keane or TLDP and hopefully Kasabian if it is them),  though that run of Shania/Alvvays/Avril is tempting if we can make it happen!  

Edited June 5 by efcfanwirral

[stuie]

2 minutes ago, efcfanwirral said:

Regular Oxfam, but in a group of 2 so would need to find another 2.

We've basically said we'll try to swap into watching all of Coldplay and take whatever else happens (which also means a good run of Saturday music - Cyndi Lauper, Keane or TLDP and hopefully Kasabian if it is them),  though that run of Shania/Alvvays/Avril is tempting if we can make it happen!  

 

Wishing you the best of luck!  Fingers crossed you get decent shifts anyway 🙂 

[Spiritdesire]

Yeah I’m oxfam. Getting the 1700 bus on the Monday 😊

 

Has anyone got the shift pattern handy? 

[Pinhead]

I tend to plan for each day anyway as if there were no shifts, then the minute I get handed my shifts, draw a line through those and plan whether the thing just before and / or the thing just after can still be attended in time or with time to spare / walking time etc.

[balti-pie]

On 2/1/2024 at 12:46 PM, LizzieRose said:

 

 

 

@Spiritdesire here it is 👍 

(i hope your username is a sonic youth ref btw!)

Edited June 5 by balti-pie

[thewomble]

44 minutes ago, Pinhead said:

I tend to plan for each day anyway as if there were no shifts, then the minute I get handed my shifts, draw a line through those and plan whether the thing just before and / or the thing just after can still be attended in time or with time to spare / walking time etc.

Exactly what I've done! I've made myself a plan for each day on Clashfinder so whatever my shifts are I'll just work around

 

The only person on my list of absolute must see's is Charli XCX, which is a shame as otherwise shift D would have been perfect! Not a lot I'm bothered about on Sunday and wanting to leave that night. But it is what it is 🙂

 

 

[Spiritdesire]

30 minutes ago, balti-pie said:

 

 

@Spiritdesire here it is 👍 

(i hope your username is a sonic youth ref btw!)

Thank you balti pie, that’s really helpful! And yeah it is, good spot!

[balti-pie]

8 minutes ago, Spiritdesire said:

Thank you balti pie, that’s really helpful! And yeah it is, good spot!

Daydream nation is one of those albums that i kind of forget exists for a few years, and then all of a sudden i remember and its all i listen to for about six weeks solid 😃 ah god, its a smasher. Will be hoping to see Kim Gordon, shifts permitting ofc, though she wont be likely to be playing much in the way of Sonic Youth, beyond maybe one or two tunes at the very most . . 

[Chazwozza]

2 hours ago, goldfishboy said:

Yeah my aim is to have a solid plan for each day so I don't get too disappointed when I inevitably have to cancel half of it.

Beyond chuffed to have secured a place with the litter pickers!  And shifts are the same time each day so planning is a breeze 😎

[Spiritdesire]

7 minutes ago, balti-pie said:

Daydream nation is one of those albums that i kind of forget exists for a few years, and then all of a sudden i remember and its all i listen to for about six weeks solid 😃 ah god, its a smasher. Will be hoping to see Kim Gordon, shifts permitting ofc, though she wont be likely to be playing much in the way of Sonic Youth, beyond maybe one or two tunes at the very most . . 

It’s funny you should say that because as soon as you asked I thought to myself I haven’t listened to them for ages!
Yeah I have her down as a maybe rather than a must see (as it looks like she just does her own material)

[goldfishboy]

1 hour ago, Chazwozza said:

Beyond chuffed to have secured a place with the litter pickers!  And shifts are the same time each day so planning is a breeze 😎

ah congrats! are you on early mornings?

[Johnnyseven]

1 hour ago, balti-pie said:

Daydream nation is one of those albums that i kind of forget exists for a few years, and then all of a sudden i remember and its all i listen to for about six weeks solid 😃 ah god, its a smasher. Will be hoping to see Kim Gordon, shifts permitting ofc, though she wont be likely to be playing much in the way of Sonic Youth, beyond maybe one or two tunes at the very most . . 

 

I wouldn't bank on that i'm afraid.

[TangoLemon]

Does anyone know of any volunteering opportunities that are still available? Or will become available in the next few weeks?

Aware it's slim pickings so close to the start of the fest!

[incident]

17 minutes ago, TangoLemon said:

Does anyone know of any volunteering opportunities that are still available? Or will become available in the next few weeks?

Aware it's slim pickings so close to the start of the fest!

 

It'd be a huge surprise - unprecedented actually - if Oxfam places don't become available again. Probably on several occasions and right up until just before the Festival starts. But it's likely to be small numbers, unannounced, and first come first served so would need to be on the ball to stand a chance of getting one.

[philipsteak]

4 hours ago, balti-pie said:

 

Yeah, it is a bugger - i've had a tentative look but dont want to start proper planning until i know what i'm doing, and THEN i can start getting excited. If there's one specific act you're after then there's only probably one shift thats likely to make it impossible, and with the A B C D E shift plan (which probably 80-90% of us are on) youve only got about a 15% chance of a shift that knackers it up. Good odds i reckon! Pattern C has a late on the friday, from 2pm to 10pm - so thats still early enough to get at least most of a headliner in.

 

I dont mind pattern C at all, and would happily have that this year . . . get the night over and done with as soon as poss, Thursday off, Headliner on friday, saturday off all day, early finish on sunday - thats fine with me 

 

Finished by 9pm if you are a supervisor, one of the advantages. Plenty of time to get to your headliner of choice

[philipsteak]

And just as I was typing that the Oxfam arrival email turns up!

[philipsteak]

2 hours ago, balti-pie said:

 

 

@Spiritdesire here it is 👍 

(i hope your username is a sonic youth ref btw!)

 

With the slight caveat that most people on E shift won't be working Sunday night. Only a handful are needed then as security take over the gates at about 8pm Sunday. Most on E shift will be working Wednesday morning or afternoon when the gates are at their busiest

[Supreme2]

Is this when we would of found out about earlies?

[efcfanwirral]

5 minutes ago, philipsteak said:

And just as I was typing that the Oxfam arrival email turns up!

ha - dashed the small hope of early shifts! 

[goldfishboy]

5 minutes ago, Supreme2 said:

Is this when we would of found out about earlies?

yes 😕

[philipsteak]

4 minutes ago, efcfanwirral said:

ha - dashed the small hope of early shifts! 

 

I dutifully tick the box every year but don't think I'll get them ever. We're a group of six, all team leaders/supervisors what ever they are called at Glastonbury so I don't think it's ever going to happen now

[This_Fields_Good]

1 hour ago, TangoLemon said:

Does anyone know of any volunteering opportunities that are still available? Or will become available in the next few weeks?

Aware it's slim pickings so close to the start of the fest!

 

54 minutes ago, incident said:

It'd be a huge surprise - unprecedented actually - if Oxfam places don't become available again. Probably on several occasions and right up until just before the Festival starts. But it's likely to be small numbers, unannounced, and first come first served so would need to be on the ball to stand a chance of getting one.

 

I'm actually wondering if Oxfam have sort of over/double booked for Glastonbury, and are absorbing any returned places; perhaps this could be a consequence of the Shindig offer.

Despite a suggestion that someone got a place a few days ago, I personally am unconvinced that there has been ANYTHING on offer since the 'resale' release. There are plenty of people from this site running page-checkers, and if there had been even one or two places, I'd expect it to have been corroborated.

 

Not what people (including me) want to hear, I know, but by this time last year there had been dozens of occasional places.

I'm still trying to get Oxfam places for people, but my confidence is taking a bit of a beating now !