Give up your free time for a worthwhile cause during Leeds Festival.
Every year the Leeds Festival attracts thousands of people. Keeping the site environmentally friendly is a huge challenge, that the Green Messengers try to manage. As a Green Messenger you will work to promote recycling during the festival by encouraging campers to sort their waste, distributing recycling bags and collecting cans & plastic bottles. After the festival you will be salvaging good quality, re-usable camping equipment and food that has been left in the campsites. These will go to charity and community organisations. You will work during the festival and for two days afterwards (25th-30th August). In return, you can spend your free time in the festival enjoying all the bands and entertainment on offer!
Everything is Possible is looking for volunteers so if you think you’re full of energy, don’t mind getting your hands dirty and are a passionate recycler, please send the Application Form (that you can download in clicking here) fully completed to Raphael : raphael@everythingispossible.eu
For more information about the programme and the projects, click here.
Watch the video of last year, on our Youtube Channel : click here.
Watch the video of Last year:
The Green Messengers work in all the recycling initiatives at the festival. You will be doing some or all of the following:
• Hand out bin bags to people on arrival.
• Tell the campers about the recycling initiatives, especially promoting the idea of packing their camping gear down and taking it home.
• Be stationed at the sets of recycling bins throughout the campgrounds telling people what bin to put their recycling in. You will be armed with a litter picking stick and if necessary you will have to pick out the wrong stuff that gets thrown in the wrong bin when you’re not looking. You may also do some litter picking around the roadway your bin is stationed on. Daytime shifts only.
• Be part of our Recycle Exchange team. You will receive bags of cans and other rubbish from the campers and hand out beer vouchers. You will need to be a bit bossy for this job as you will have to make the people pick out any ‘contaminants’ from the bags they bring back before you hand over their beer voucher. We are also looking at a way of collecting up all the trashed metal chairs, so you may end up on that duty too.
• Be part of our Compost Crew. These will be highly sought after arena jobs, so volunteers will need to jump through a few hoops to get this role. The Compost Crew will roam around the arena with a handy hoop and a litter picking stick working as mobile compost bins. This is so people don’t have to sit in each others' squished kebabs and also so we capture the estimated 70% of compostable waste produced in the arena ends up as compost and not as methane puffing out of a landfill. OK, so not such a glamorous job, but we’ll kit you out in some fun t-shirts and you’ll get to see and hear the bands.
• You will be promoting the option of packing down their gear and donating it to our Tent Recycling points.
• Staffing Tent Recycling points on the Monday morning.
• Working in the sorting area to re-pack all the donated gear.
• Salvaging and scavenging good quality re-usable gear that’s left in the campsites, to go to charity and community organisations.
• Tell the campers about the recycling initiatives, especially promoting the idea of packing their camping gear down and taking it home.
• Be stationed at the sets of recycling bins throughout the campgrounds telling people what bin to put their recycling in. You will be armed with a litter picking stick and if necessary you will have to pick out the wrong stuff that gets thrown in the wrong bin when you’re not looking. You may also do some litter picking around the roadway your bin is stationed on. Daytime shifts only.
• Be part of our Recycle Exchange team. You will receive bags of cans and other rubbish from the campers and hand out beer vouchers. You will need to be a bit bossy for this job as you will have to make the people pick out any ‘contaminants’ from the bags they bring back before you hand over their beer voucher. We are also looking at a way of collecting up all the trashed metal chairs, so you may end up on that duty too.
• Be part of our Compost Crew. These will be highly sought after arena jobs, so volunteers will need to jump through a few hoops to get this role. The Compost Crew will roam around the arena with a handy hoop and a litter picking stick working as mobile compost bins. This is so people don’t have to sit in each others' squished kebabs and also so we capture the estimated 70% of compostable waste produced in the arena ends up as compost and not as methane puffing out of a landfill. OK, so not such a glamorous job, but we’ll kit you out in some fun t-shirts and you’ll get to see and hear the bands.
• You will be promoting the option of packing down their gear and donating it to our Tent Recycling points.
• Staffing Tent Recycling points on the Monday morning.
• Working in the sorting area to re-pack all the donated gear.
• Salvaging and scavenging good quality re-usable gear that’s left in the campsites, to go to charity and community organisations.
