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The 2024 festival season is nearly here! We have spent several months talking to festival organisers planning what is looking to be our biggest Festival Angels season yet! Please bear with us though - we are a small team made up of a 2 very part time staff and some amazing volunteers who between us are trying to keep on top of everything! Welcome to the Festival Angels family 64 new volunteers who have signed up in 2024 - do join the general Festival Angels Facebook group where we share info, get to know one another, etc. The first Festival Angels of 2024 is Porthleven Food Festival. This will be mainly volunteers from Cornwall and the South West - watch the video below from 2023 - more details and how to sign up is here. Into May and the first of several festivals in Upton-upon-Severn, the folk festival (which takes over the town!) will see Festival Angels offering a drop in cafe space and detached teams. In Cornwall a local Festival Angels team will be working around Tunes in the Dunes. Our first new festival for 2024 is happening over the May Bank Holiday weekend, 24th - 26th, Challenge Festival in Myrtle Park, Bingley. The weekend will see Gareth Gates, Ellie Sax and Peter Andre performing - for more details and sign-up info see here.  For many of our festivals we are using Bloomerang (the website formerly known as InitLive). On this app you sign up to Festival Angels as the organisation Click here for the Festival Angels organisation page - if you have an account it will ask you for your password, if you are new it will ask you to sign up. If you are having trouble signing in click here for the main Bloomerang log-in page. It is then down to you to add yourself to Opportunities and shifts (though shifts will become live nearer the festival dates - we will let you know). If you have any issues please email [email protected]  Parklife is the next Festival Angels team in Heaton Park, Manchester on Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th June. For more details and to sign up click here. Festival Angels will be hosting dedicated 'Safe Spaces' across the festival site. The team will run 10am - 11pm on Saturday and 11am - 11pm on Sunday with volunteers working at least one day.  June sees the start of 30 gigs at Piece Hall in Halifax where Festival Angels will be on patrol around the venue (another new one for Festival Angels!) We are still waiting for final confirmation on our role / teams at Download (13th - 17th June in Castle Donington). We are also waiting on confirmation for four different locations of Forestry Commission gigs and five locations of Summer Sessions series of gigs which are over June, July and August - thanks to all who have expressed an interest in volunteering at these we will let you know as soon as we know! Glastonbury will see the local to Somerset team running The Church @ Glastonbury. They will offer a Christian presence with creative space, wedding blessings, daily gatherings and more - join the Facebook group for more details. At the end of June and into July is Bedford Summer Sessions where Festival Angels will be running a Safe Hub which will include Lost Property along with detached teams who will patrol across the festival site offering support and assistance. We are working with Bedford Street Angels to organise this team - for more details and to sign up click here.  In July we are still waiting for confirmation on a team at Latitude (24th - 29th July in Suffolk) and a local team at Yarty Party in Devon. The beginning of August is one of the Festival Angels favourites, Kendal Calling. This team is already almost at capacity! Festival Angels will be running a safe hub and detached teams. The end of August (21st - 26th) sees our biggest Festival Angels team at Leeds Festival where we will be running the Prayer Cafe, Lost Property, detached and AIR Hubs. You can sign up for Leeds Festival via Opportunities within Bloomerang (if you are a new volunteer you need to sign up to Festival Angels on Bloomerang first - once we have taken references you will be able to sign up to the opportunities). The same weekend is Creamfields where We Are Church at Creamfields do an amazing work with a safe place marquee, water and jammy dodgers - find out more on Facebook. Festival Angels are also looking at running Lost Property at Creamfields - more details (if this happens) soon. And finally (well maybe) September could be our final new Festival Angels with Shipley Festival which attracts 80,000 people! More details soon. Please use this image to share about Festival Angels on your own, church, community social media sites...  Who is spring cleaning? Let's see your vintage Festival Angels mugs / T shirts / tote bags...who has got a sneaky Hi Viz??? Let's get all these back in circulation in 2024. If you want to donate them back into the system this year if your volunteer days are over please let Amanda know - we can either pick them up or you can post back to us! Thank you again to our amazing Festival Angels family who are serving at an incredible number of festivals and gigs in 2024! See you in a field soon! #JesusLovesFestivals  Comments are closed.
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