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The Guardian debate at the Hay Festival

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The Festival is run by a tight team who’ve worked together for between 5 and 15 years. It is – like Tony Benn’s famous description – a bit like gathering for Christmas, with new family joining every year.

All the work is pretty demanding, but the atmosphere is great and the friendships formed do seem to have survived flood, tempest, euphoric romance and the close scrutiny of the US security services...



  • help as a steward

    apply here

  • All the Festival events are stewarded by teams of between 4 and 10. The main job is to make sure the audiences are safe and happy before, during, and after each event.

    Stewards work shifts of 3–4 hours. It’s voluntary but fun and you’ll make lots of good friends.

    If you are interested in stewarding at Hay Festival 2010 in Wales, complete our quick online form and let us know which parts of which days you would be available to help.

  • working in the box office

     

  • The Box Office takes on an extra 10 box office staff in May. The Box Office team are the first point of contact for the public once the brochure is published. You need to be calm, good on the telephone, familiar with computers and to enjoy working with the public. Retail experience, a sense of humour and rhino-hide help. Very long hours and fair pay.

    We now have a full team for 2010, so applications are closed for this year. For enquiries about working in 2011, applications will open in November 2010: please email Penny or Andy after this date.

  • apply as an intern

  • Applications to intern at Hay 2010 (Green Room and Press Office) are now closed. If you have already applied, we will contact you as soon as possible in April. Accommodation and meals will be provided.

    For enquiries about working in 2011, applications will open in November 2010: please email Jesse (for internships in both Green Room and Press Office) after this date, including your CV and a cover letter telling us why you’d like to intern at Hay.

  • join the site crew

  • Fred Wright looks for site crew to assist with the construction of the festival site in the weeks running up to and after the festival has finished. The 2010 team is now fully staffed.

  • work with concession-holders

     

  • Concession-holders (e.g. food and drink stands) on the Festival site recruit for short-term employees in the run-up to the Festival.

    At the moment, Creativevents is looking for staff. Contact Claire Chidgey on 0207 370 8678 or by email for more info and to apply, or download more info here.

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