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Tuesday Oct 10, 2006

End of the Road

i actually reached the End of the Road a few weeks back, i have just been so busy job hunting since that i havent got round to letting you know how i got there! End of the Road is a fantastic new music festival that was launched for the first time this year. The bonus of it being a very new and hardly heard of festival meant that  there was only  1,500  festival goers,  enjoying the fantastic music and  gardens  with the local peacocks!  This made our role as Oxfam stewards,  very easy compared to the larger festivals like Glastonbury. Being a new festival it certainly had its teething problems to keep us busy, but was friendly enough for musicians to mix with the punters - i even got a hug and kiss from Badly Drawn Boy and went to a IM FROM BARCELONA secret gig (if you havent heared of them, keep your eyes out - they are likely to be the next big thing, im already a huge fan!). Following my success of looking after people in wheelchairs at other festivals i found myself again on the platform for disabled people, however it turned out that there wasnt a wheelchair on site, so this left me with not much else to do but enjoy the bands on the main stage.  While doing a  late shift on the Sunday night, i was thankfully moved before i fell asleep and was kept awake chatting to punters and making sure they didnt fall into the gardens pond or get lost in the woods. having told some friends about how great stewarding at festivals was i was able to convince some friends to join us, they came and also had a fantastic time ...showing that word of mouth is deffinitly one of the best forms of volunteer recruitment!

Posted by Helen Bryant ( 5:07 PM )
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