Volunteer at Latitude Festival with Greenpeace
Volunteer with Greenpeace at Latitude festival, and help create an amazing experience for festival-goers among the trees. Applications will open Wednesday 5th March 2025.
For over 50 years Greenpeace has campaigned to protect the environment, sharing our vision of a greener, healthier, and a more peaceful planet – one that can sustain life for generations to come.
This summer, the Greenpeace Events team is excited to get back out on the road, meeting up with like-minded people, having a great time, and helping to celebrate our victories over the decades while also raising awareness on our campaigns to protect the planet.
One of our stops will be Latitude Festival in Henham Park, Southwold, Suffolk from Wednesday 23rd (or before noon on Thursday 24th) to Monday 28th July 2025 – and you could be part of our crew!
What's Latitude Festival like?
Set in the wooded Henham Park Estate in Suffolk, Latitude delivers a diverse offering of music, theatre, dance, film, cabaret, and literature. From Sting to Snow Patrol, Fatboy Slim to Maribou State, Basement Jaxx, Kaiser Chiefs and Clean Bandit, big stages to hidden nooks in the woods.
Greenpeace at Latitude
The nets
The nets nestled amongst the trees at Latitude Festival are not just a place for play, it’s a space for children to learn about our natural environment with no computer games or TV in sight. It’s a top-ten Latitude experience that attracts hundreds of little eco-warriors every year. The climbing nets high up in the tree canopy, it’s also an inclusive and joyful space for small kids to teenagers to get stuck in and to be able to express themselves through play and learning. We also introduced a new eco-activity for young people to get involved in – bushcraft! Think chopping wood and making fun things with the materials at Camp Greenpeace.
The ship and tools shed
Down by the water, we built a ship together! With guidance from volunteers, children helped cut wood, hammer planks onto the frame, and decorate the bunting which to hang from the mast. Throughout the weekend the ship came to life, and was a popular activity for many little DIY eco-warriors.
We’re inviting kids to come together and celebrate Greenpeace, nature, and our planet as a whole – We want to encourage kids to play amongst nature and to come away with a little insight into what Greenpeace has achieved and how we can achieve so much more with the help of eco-warriors. These areas will all be run by volunteers, so you may be placed at any of these positions.
Cafe
We also have a really busy café next to the nets for parents and guardians to sit back with a hot drink to watch the kids fly around like squirrels.
Volunteering with Greenpeace
Applicants must be over the age of 18 and be able to attend the festival from Wednesday 23rd July (or before noon on Thursday 24th) to Monday 28th July. Volunteers will work in shifts of six hours each day of the festival. Some shifts may be late at night or early in the morning.
What we’re looking for:
- Experience working with children is beneficial but not essential
- Flexibility as there are a variety of roles and you’ll have the opportunity to do every role
- Enthusiastic individuals with values aligned with our own
- People who would like to join a community of like-minded individuals, to spread our campaign messaging in a fun yet hardworking festival environment
As a member of the Greenpeace crew you can expect:
- Entry to the event
- Tasty vegetarian/vegan meals three times a day
- Secure camping
- Access to hot showers
- Good company and lots of entertainment
- Capped travel reimbursement
Applications for 2025 have now closed. All applicants will be notified by Friday 25th April.
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.