The Greenpeace Field at Glastonbury features hot showers, café, stage and bands, skate ramp, a climbing wall and much more.

It’s not just a place for environmental activism, but a top-ten Glasto experience that attracts thousands of visitors.

Every year an amazing team of volunteers bring the field to life. Together we keep it looking beautiful, support the campsite, spread the Greenpeace message and so much more. It’s hard work, but very rewarding.

Volunteer at Glastonbury 2025

In 2025, Greenpeace is returning to Glastonbury Festival to celebrate biodiversity and to call out the big polluters. The Greenpeace field will be a party destination, a place to meet mutual minds and a space to imagine what our future could look like. 

Here you’ll find all you need to know before you apply to volunteer for a place on the Greenpeace Crew. 

Whether you’ve been coming for years or you’re brand new to this, it is essential you read this before going any further with the application process. 

Greenpeace has been a charity partner of Glastonbury Festival since 1992. In return for creating an amazing field full of attractions (think hot showers, café, stage and bands, skate ramp, climbing wall) Michael and Emily Eavis make a very generous donation to Greenpeace to enable us to carry on protecting and conserving the environment and promoting peace. We also have a fantastic opportunity to reach out to new supporters and communicate our campaigns to thousands of festival-goers.

We need you to help us make this happen! Every year an amazing team of volunteers brings the field to life, keeping it looking beautiful, supporting the campsite, and spreading the Greenpeace message. We won’t sugar coat it – it’s hard work, but very rewarding.

Essentials

To volunteer with Greenpeace at Glastonbury you must – no exceptions:

• Be available on site from Tuesday 24th June until Monday 30th June. The field must be up and running when the gates open to the public on the Wednesday morning and for the whole festival.
• Be over 18 (it’s an insurance issue).
• Be able to make your own way to and from the festival, preferably by public transport or car share. We regret that we cannot reimburse travel expenses.

There are a number of roles that involve working for longer, before or after the festival, some of which may allow you to have some or all of the festival off (see details below).

 Volunteering Shifts:

• Volunteers work a minimum of five 6-8 hour shifts during your time on site. In most cases, this will be a shift each day during the festival.
• Different roles have slightly varied shift times due to the variable level of intensity across the roles. You will get meal/tea breaks during shifts. Some shifts may be late at night or early in the morning.

As part of our crew you get:

• Secure crew camping in the middle of the festival.
• Hot showers.
• Three vegetarian/vegan meals a day.
• Access to our discounted crew bar and community space.
• The best fire pit on site.
• Great company and to enjoy all that Glastonbury Festival has to offer (when you aren’t on shift, of course!)

Arrival and departure

• You must arrive in good time to have set-up camp, you should aim to arrive by 2pm briefing on Tuesday 24th June. Trust us, it’s a big site and this will take considerably longer than expected. 
• You can expect to leave site on Monday 30th June.
• There is an opportunity to put yourself forward for pre-/post-festival shifts. Spaces for these are very limited and it will be communicated to you if you are selected for these.
• There is very limited camping space for our crew so we are unable to accommodate friends, family or vehicles on our campsite. With regret, we do not provide any facilities or tickets for children.

The application process

The first round of selections will be made by Friday 14 March. It is possible that some roles may become available later and we will need a few reserves.

Every year the number of applicants we have increases, making spaces increasingly competitive. To make the process fair, all applications are freshly and anonymously assessed each year, against a carefully designed marking system. All applicants are assessed based purely on the content of their application – so make sure you include details and examples of why you’d be a great volunteer!

Roles

Our volunteers help us to run the field, across various teams. We do not give the option for applicants to specify which roles most interest them – we will match applicants to roles based on their skills and experience.

All-rounders

These volunteers will be required to help work on different features and to be on hand to fill positions when needed. Some of the tasks will require a reasonable level of physical strength, and may include: jumping in to help stewards and feature volunteer teams, changing the kegs for the bar, litter picking (and more!) – we are looking for lovely people that are keen to jump in when required. This is a really great role as every shift is different. Must not mind getting mucky and stuck in with anything.

Feature Volunteers

Whether the Drop Slide or the Skate Ramp. These roles are a vital interface in giving the public a positive experience of the Greenpeace field. We need positive, smiley people with campaign knowledge to run the features (and the queue!).

Production Assistants

Experienced crew helping to organise and run the event, keep health and safety logs, oversee the crew and ensure success of the field. Think spreadsheets. Production Assistants help to track everything that goes on in the Greenpeace Field during the live show and are right in the middle of all the happenings. They are critical in delegating tasks to other volunteer and crew groups. We need spreadsheet savvy individuals with experience in tracking high speed changes in a busy working environment. Festival production experience is desirable. 

Showers Crew

Managing the sustainable Greenpeace showers. Encouraging the public to donate, managing the queue and keeping those campers that are desperate for a go in our lovely showers (our showers have been voted best on site!). Keeping the showers clean and green!

Maintenance Crew

Helping fix features on our field and campsite. We need handy people with some experience in construction, maintenance, or are just practically minded and up for giving things a go.

Accreditation and Information Office

Assisting in the onsite accreditation process (tickets and passes). This includes wristbanding crew as they arrive on site, and tracking guests entering our crew areas. Assisting in assigning crew with campsite pitching spaces on arrival. In addition, this office will act as a main point of call for answering general crew questions. 

We need experienced and organised individuals that are spreadsheet savvy and are confident in picking up information quickly and acting as a source of information for other crew members.You are part of the team who are often the first contact when crew and guests enter the Greenpeace field – making sure they have a positive and helpful welcome. 

Stewards

Covering our campsite or field gates to control access to only those authorised to be backstage. Helping to keep our campsite and our field, tidy, secure and in good order for our crew and the public.

Food Crew

We are looking for friendly people with at least 1 year of catering experience that are used to working in a fast paced environment to help run our plant based street food stand on the field, serving the public. A level 2 food hygiene catering certificate is desirable, in addition to fast-paced money handling experience. 

Volunteering pre- and post-festival

Getting involved on site for longer is often an interesting and rewarding experience for many people – a chance to watch the final stages of the field coming together. We have a limited number of spaces for volunteers to work a couple of days either side of the festival. For every pre-festival/post-festival shift worked, volunteers will get an additional half shift off during the live show – for example, if you work two shifts before the event, you will get a whole day off during the festival itself.

Please note if you are selected to work pre-event, you should aim to arrive the day before your first shift unless agreed separately.

Pre- and post-festival roles

Stewarding

To keep the Campsite and Greenpeace field safe during the whole period, we steward our gates from Sunday 22 June to Tuesday 1 July. 

Accreditation and Information Office

The run-up to the festival is hectic on the campsite and we will need assistance in getting people pitched in the campsite, check-in and issues resolved and also to keep the campsite in good order from Sunday 22 June to Monday 30 June. 

Food Crew

We need some of the food crew to help set up and pack down the food stand on Tuesday 24 June and Monday 30 June.

Apply for your place

Diversity and inclusion

The principles and practices of diversity and inclusion are a priority at Greenpeace UK. It is important that our commitment to creating an inclusive space for all people – especially those who are marginalised – extends to everything we do as an organisation. This includes proactively engaging people of colour, people with disabilities, people who identify as LGBTQIA+, and people across different class backgrounds. 

With that in mind, we would encourage you to please share this link widely within your networks and social circles and especially to anyone who isn’t already a member of the Greenpeace community, or wouldn’t otherwise hear of this opportunity.

Privacy and data

Greenpeace UK collects the data in your application form. By submitting this application form you are consenting to being contacted by Greenpeace UK about future campaigns and volunteering opportunities.

In addition a limited amount of this data is processed on behalf of Glastonbury Festivals Events Limited. See privacy statement below.

Artist / crew passes privacy statement

The personal data supplied as part of this submission will be stored and processed by Glastonbury Festival Events Limited in order to facilitate your entry to and attendance at the Glastonbury Festival; for example printing your access tickets, arrivals information and delivery lists.

The personal data you supply will never be sold to any third parties but may be shared with contractors providing services to the event.

Your data will be retained for a maximum of 5 years before being securely deleted.

For more information about how the Festival processes data, and your rights as a data subject, please refer to the full Glastonbury Festival Privacy Policy.