The Festival simply wouldn't happen without the hard work and goodwill of the dozens of volunteers, but we're always looking out for more helping hands! If you fancy giving it a go, have a look at the different types of jobs and jot down your preferences on our staffing form (opens as a 264kb pdf document).

The completed form needs to be posted (not emailed!) to arrive with our Staffing Officer by 14 February 2012.

If you've never worked at this (or any other) beer festival, don't worry - every one of our volunteers had to start sometime! Training and help will be on hand, and we'll even be adding a "First Time Volunteer?" FAQ to this site shortly.

Festival Jobs include:

SET-UP: Putting up scaffolding for the barrels, helping move the barrels into place, preparing glasses and programmes, putting signs up and generally arranging the room as needed.

BAR: Filling people's glasses with the beer requested and taking tokens– you'll be shown what to do when you come – and generally being pleasant and helpful!

FRONT DESK: Welcoming people on arrival, taking tickets, directing them to where they need to go.

GLASSES/TOKENS: Handing out glasses and selling tokens to festival goers.

STALLS: Staffing the membership and merchandise stalls respectively – signing up new members or selling CAMRA goods. Full training will be provided for the membership stall volunteers.

STEWARDING: Helping to keep everyone safe and happy.

TAKE-DOWN: Clearing up after the event. Helping return barrels to brewers, break down the scaffolding, etc.

Not only CAMRA members can volunteer to help out, but if you're not a member (yet), why not check out the CAMRA page and consider signing up?