Volunteering 2025

[Leyrulion]

14 hours ago, Old_Johno said:

The main downer for wateraid is you do 4 shifts instead of 3 (6 hours instead of 8), and realistically you’re going to want a shower after cleaning toilets for 6 hours so can eat up quite a lot of time, once you’ve gone back to the staff camp. 

 

On the other hand stewarding can be miles away from anything, so if you can make peace with not showering after cleaning then wateraid might be better for you.

 

12 hours ago, SPW said:

 

 

Cheers both. Yeah I noticed the 4 shorter shifts and would prefer to do less but longer shifts if given a choice. But in any event, either is prob a bit of a long shot this time round so will keep an eye on both for now and see what's what in the New Yr and how the non-festival volunteering progresses as that may sway what's the best option for me.  Generally, I am accepting of it being a different festival experience and not necessarily being able to do/see all I'd ordinarily want to. 

 

p.s. as for the post shift showering, that depends on what I would be missing 😃. 

Key thing with wateraid is you start and end your shift from the camp site so travel time to the toilet sets that you're cleaning counts. 

So that probably eats up a good 30-45 minutes of the shift. 

[Old_Johno]

4 hours ago, Leyrulion said:

 

Key thing with wateraid is you start and end your shift from the camp site so travel time to the toilet sets that you're cleaning counts. 

So that probably eats up a good 30-45 minutes of the shift. 

It’s good for eating up time on shift, bad if you wanted to see some stuff before your shift, then walk 45 mins back to camp, then 45 minutes back to the toilets, then back out again. 

[Johnnyseven]

6 hours ago, Leyrulion said:

 

Key thing with wateraid is you start and end your shift from the camp site so travel time to the toilet sets that you're cleaning counts. 

So that probably eats up a good 30-45 minutes of the shift. 

 

I've not done Wateraid but a mate did it the year I did Oxfam and it seemed much more cushy. The above and the fact that you get to end your shift once you've covered the allotted bogs to clean. Plus no overnight shifts.  

[stuie]

2 minutes ago, Johnnyseven said:

I've not done Wateraid but a mate did it the year I did Oxfam and it seemed much more cushy. The above and the fact that you get to end your shift once you've covered the allotted bogs to clean. Plus no overnight shifts.  

I've not done WaterAid but it's swings and roundabouts really, an extra shift but for 2 hours less each shift might work for some - as does not having a nightshift.  But for me, 8 hours working during the night when I'm not missing stuff - that's just fine.*

 

*yes yes at Glasto, you're always missing some stuff! 

 

[Johnnyseven]

9 minutes ago, stuie said:

I've not done WaterAid but it's swings and roundabouts really, an extra shift but for 2 hours less each shift might work for some - as does not having a nightshift.  But for me, 8 hours working during the night when I'm not missing stuff - that's just fine.*

 

*yes yes at Glasto, you're always missing some stuff! 

 

 

I'm not complaining about Oxfam volunteering but i'd be glad to lose the night shift and swap for 4 shorter shifts when i'm actually doing something that passes the time. My night shift attending a 'pedestrian crossing' outside the fence with perhaps 4 vehicles passing in 8 hours was a real struggle.

[efcfanwirral]

12 minutes ago, stuie said:

I've not done WaterAid but it's swings and roundabouts really, an extra shift but for 2 hours less each shift might work for some - as does not having a nightshift.  But for me, 8 hours working during the night when I'm not missing stuff - that's just fine.*

 

*yes yes at Glasto, you're always missing some stuff! 

 

yeah I'm the same, my night shift was Thursday into Friday, and I was in the field for Squeeze at Midday, and did a whole day of music. Happy to push through in that situation