Welcome to the Hotbox Events staff and volunteer community!
We hope you enjoy watching our festival staff and volunteer interviews, having a browse of our photo galleries, chatting in our Facebook Group and Forum, connecting and sharing on our social channels, and please don't forget to keep up to date by joining our newsletter!
Head to our Facebook Group to chat with Hotbox staff and volunteers about this summer's festivals, get advice about what to pack, offer and find lifts to the festivals, share photos and videos...
Making sure that every volunteer and member of staff who joins us has the best possible experience is of upmost importance to everyone involved with Hotbox Events.
If you've not volunteered or worked as part of a staff team at a festival before and you're wondering what it's like; have a watch of some of our festival staff and volunteer interviews!
You’ll get to hear from volunteers who have joined us at festivals such as Download, Latitude, Reading and Leeds, talking about how they found their shifts, how they were looked after by the Hotbox team, what it was like volunteering for the first time on their own, taking on more responsibility year on year and progressing from a volunteer to staff role, and even how the experience and confidence gained has helped with their career progression away from festivals!
The Hotbox Events staff and volunteer forums are a great place to chat with people you'll be working with at the festivals, ask questions of those who have worked with us before, arrange lift sharing to festivals and more!
Hotbox Events began its life recruiting and managing volunteers for the 2003 Leeds Festival, since then our volunteers have managed to escape to the Reading Festival in 2006, then Latitude Festival in 2008, and V Festival in 2016!
With so little control there really is no telling what you may find in the galleries!
I wanted to send you a quick note to express how amazing your staff were this weekend whilst I volunteered at Download. I have served in the British Army for over three decades and have most likely seen and experienced every kind of leader and supervisor; from toxic through to inspiring, and I honestly believe you have assembled a special set of individuals. They absolutely ensured festival customers were supported as much as possible and also made volunteering a fantastic experience; I suspect that is not far off your companies mission statement.
I clearly do not know everyone who was working for Hotbox during the event but I have nothing but positive things to say about the staff even if I only saw them and did not interact with. I would however like to make you aware of the fantastic performance by some individuals I noted though personal interactions.
Shift Supervisors: I had the pleasure to work with Connor, Sarah and Sam. As someone that has spent a considerable part of his working life ensuring every one understands the mission whilst ensuring the workforce is also looked after, I was very impressed with the enthusiasm and energy the supervisors displayed and the performance each delivered. The constant monitoring of their workforces welfare and total professionalism throughout was fantastic. I would like to highlight how amazingly well, Sarah managed a diverse crew of volunteers and also a complicated welfare/medical situation during our shift. Her entire performance was ‘second to none’. She really felt like a leader and everyone believed in her and her actions.
I hope you can in some way let them know their efforts were appreciated, both in delivering excellent enabling activity and really solid performances as supervisors. I would recommend Hotbox to young or old, male or female, either as a single person or a group as your staff just make the experience work.
