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Festival crew & event jobs in London

Paid festival crew and event work across London and the South East - Field Day, All Points East and corporate marquees across the home counties. Add your name once and get rung direct when crew's needed near you.

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Festival crew and event work in London

CrewPool is a free list of event and festival crew. Companies working Field Day, All Points East and corporate marquees across the home counties search it and contact people direct - no agency, no cut. Pick the work you do:

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Festivals near London

London and London & the South East run a busy event calendar - Notting Hill Carnival (August), BST Hyde Park (June), All Points East (August) and DnB Allstars Festival (September) and more, all hiring crew through the season. Find work at any of them:

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Bar work in London

Between events, the same crew picks up casual and weekend bar work in London - £13–£16 an hour plus tips, agreed direct with the venue. Hiring instead? Hire bar staff in London.

Jobs at All Points East

All Points East at Victoria Park in east London is the biggest annual summer festival near central London, running over the August bank holiday weekend with capacity around 50,000 per day. Crew roles at All Points East include bar staff, event stewards, gate crew, build and break crew, site crew and catering crew. Build crew typically start 2-3 weeks before gates open; on-event crew arrive for the bank holiday weekend itself, with shifts running from around 8am to late evening across Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Pay for All Points East crew follows London festival rates: £100-£140 per day for bar crew and stewards, £120-£200 for build and break crew, £110-£160 for stagehands. Production contractors and bar operators working All Points East recruit crew from the CrewPool list in the 2-4 weeks before the August bank holiday - add your name once and get contacted direct when they are building their teams. See the dedicated All Points East jobs and crew page for full role details.

The August bank holiday is the peak recruitment window for bar contractors building their All Points East teams. APE draws from the same London event crew pool as BST Hyde Park (June) and Notting Hill Carnival (late August) - all three events compete for the same available crew in a compressed summer window. That means crew who are flexible across June to August bank holiday tend to pick up multiple bookings. Bar crew who hold a personal licence get prioritised by bar contractors for All Points East bar roles; festival bar experience is enough for most other positions. Add your name to CrewPool free, set your travel range to cover east London, and tick bar crew, steward, build crew or site crew depending on what you can do.

Festival crew in London

London runs one of the UK's busiest festival crew seasons. Major events hiring festival crew include BST Hyde Park (June), All Points East (August), Notting Hill Carnival (August) and Field Day - each needing festival crew across a range of roles: build crew putting up stages and structures, bar crew running festival bars, stewards managing crowds and entry points, site crew handling logistics and waste, and stagehands working backstage. Festival crew hiring for build-side roles typically opens 4-8 weeks before each event; on-event festival crew bookings follow as schedules firm up, usually 2-4 weeks out.

Pay for festival crew in London varies by role. General site festival crew earns £100-£150 per day; bar festival crew and stewards both earn £100-£140 per day; stagehands earn £110-£160 per day. Specialist festival crew - lighting techs, riggers and production crew - earn £150-£280+ per day depending on the call. Festival crew chiefs and site managers command £180-£300+ per day. All pay is agreed direct between festival crew and the company, with no agency cut taken out of your rate.

Build crew are usually needed 2-4 weeks before an event; on-event crew arrive 1-2 days before doors open. London's festival season peaks May to September, covering the run from spring corporate events through to the autumn marquee circuit. Corporate marquee and private event crew work runs year-round in London, so there is rarely a dead month for experienced crew. Christmas and winter brings christmas temp jobs at Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park, the Southbank Christmas Market and corporate party season at London venues. Add yourself to CrewPool free and companies working London festivals will contact you direct - no fees, no commissions. See the dedicated festival crew jobs in London page for the general crew role, or find festival crew work in Brighton, Bristol, Manchester and Leeds.

Festival crew work in London

Festival crew work in London peaks from May to September, with the biggest festival crew call-ups coming from All Points East at Victoria Park (August), BST Hyde Park (June and July), Notting Hill Carnival (August) and Field Day at Crystal Palace Park. Festival crew roles across London events include build crew (putting up stages, fencing and power structures 2-4 weeks before gates open), bar crew (running festival bars across the event weekend), event stewards (managing crowd flow, gates and campsites), site crew (logistics, waste and campsite management) and stagehands (working backstage at stages and production areas). Festival crew hiring in London is concentrated in the hands of the production contractors who supply the big events - getting on the CrewPool list means they find you directly when they need festival crew near London, without needing to advertise or go through an agency.

Pay for festival crew in London follows standard UK event rates: £100-£150 per day for general site festival crew and bar festival crew, £110-£160 per day for stagehands, £150-£280+ per day for specialist festival crew (lighting, rigging, production). Festival crew chiefs and site managers earn £180-£300+ per day. All rates are agreed direct between festival crew and the company - no agency takes a cut on CrewPool. Festival crew who stay on the list, keep availability current and tick a broad range of skills tend to pick up festival crew work across London's full May-September season rather than only one or two events.

Festival staffing in London

Festival staffing companies working London events need two types of people: festival staffing who join the build before gates open (build crew, staging crew, fencing and power) and festival staffing who work the event itself (bar staff, stewards, catering crew, litter and recycling pickers). Festival staffing for London events is arranged through the production contractors who manage crew supply for the major festivals. The lead time varies: festival staffing for build roles typically gets locked in 4-8 weeks before the event; festival staffing for on-event roles follows 2-4 weeks out as headcounts firm up. Adding your name to CrewPool and ticking the festival staffing roles you can cover means contractors building their London event teams find you directly - no agency in the middle.

Festival staffing rates in London range from £100-£140 per day for stewarding and bar festival staffing roles to £120-£220 per day for build festival staffing crew and £150-£300+ per day for specialist festival staffing positions (staging, lighting, rigging, production management). Festival staffing across the corporate marquee circuit in the home counties pays broadly in line with festival rates and runs year-round, filling the gaps between the major London summer festivals. CrewPool is the only festival staffing directory where crew list themselves free and companies contact them direct - so festival staffing rates stay closer to what crew actually earn, with no agency commission built into the day rate.

Event crew jobs in London

Event crew jobs in London run across a year-round circuit. The summer festival season (May-September) is the peak: festival event crew jobs at BST Hyde Park, All Points East, Notting Hill Carnival and Field Day are supplemented by a dense marquee and estate event circuit across the home counties. Event crew jobs at the O2 Arena, Wembley Arena, Alexandra Palace and Roundhouse run year-round for touring productions, boxing nights and large concerts. The corporate events circuit - awards ceremonies, gala dinners, trade shows at ExCeL London and Olympia - generates event crew jobs across all seasons, peaking in May-June and October-December.

Event crew jobs in London pay £100-£300+ a day for day-rate roles and £13-£16 per hour for venue shifts. The range of event crew jobs London offers is broader than most UK cities: specialist event crew jobs (riggers, lighting techs, staging crew) are in high demand from the touring industry year-round, while general event crew jobs (bar, stewards, site crew) follow the festival and marquee calendar. Add your name to CrewPool free, tick the event crew jobs you can do, and event companies across London and the home counties find you directly when they need event crew near London.

Hiring festival staff in London?

If you need festival staff in London, CrewPool is the direct route. Post the job free - name the event, dates and roles - and we text the festival staff nearest your London site who are confirmed available. All Points East, BST Hyde Park, Notting Hill Carnival and corporate marquees across the home counties are the main sources of festival staff work near London. No festival staffing agency, no markup on wages. Day rates agreed direct: bar and stewarding festival staff run £100-£140 per day, build festival staff £120-£200 per day, specialist festival staff £150-£280 per day. Hire festival staff in London →

Hiring crew for an event?

If you landed here looking to hire event crew rather than find work: CrewPool is the direct route. Post what you need free and we text the crew near your site who are actually available - no agency, no markup on wages. The last job posted filled in 4 minutes. Event crew hire, explained →

Common questions

What festival crew work is there in London?
London hosts major festival events hiring festival crew across the season: BST Hyde Park (June), All Points East (August), Notting Hill Carnival (August) and Field Day. Festival crew roles include build crew, bar crew, stewards, site crew and stagehands. Pay for festival crew ranges from £100-£140 per day for bar festival crew and stewards, £100-£150 for general site festival crew, £110-£160 for stagehands, £150-£280+ for specialist festival crew and £180-£300+ for festival crew chiefs. Build festival crew are typically needed 2-4 weeks before events; on-event festival crew arrive 1-2 days before.
How do I find festival crew work in London?
Add your name to CrewPool free - takes 2 minutes. Set your travel range, tick the festival crew roles you can cover (build crew, bar crew, steward, stagehand, site crew) and companies working London festivals will contact you direct. No agency, no cut, no joining fee.
What festival jobs are there in London?
Everything from bar staff and stewards to marquee crew, stagehands, lighting techs and drivers - across London & the South East, working Field Day, All Points East and corporate marquees across the home counties.
How much does event work pay in London?
Most day work pays £100–£300+, with specialist and crew-chief roles to £300+. Agreed direct, no agency cut.
How do I start?
Add your name to the list free, set your travel range, tick what you can do. Companies search and ring you direct.
What arena and corporate event crew jobs are there in London?
Event crew jobs in London cover festival crew, build and break crew, bar crew, stewards, stagehands and site crew. The biggest festival event crew jobs in London are at BST Hyde Park (June), All Points East (August) and Notting Hill Carnival (August). Year-round event crew jobs run at the O2 Arena, Wembley Arena and Alexandra Palace, plus the corporate events circuit at ExCeL London and Olympia. Festival crew jobs in London pay £100-£150 per day for general roles, £110-£160 for stagehands and £150-£300+ for specialist event crew. Add your name to CrewPool free and companies with event crew jobs near London contact you direct.
What festival staffing work is available in London?
Festival staffing work in London covers bar staff, stewards, build and break crew, catering crew and site crew. The main festival staffing events in London are BST Hyde Park (June), All Points East (August), Notting Hill Carnival (August) and Field Day. Festival staffing in London pays £100-£280+ a day depending on the role - bar and steward festival staffing roles pay £100-£140 a day, specialist festival staffing crew earn £150-£280+. Add your name to CrewPool free and festival staffing companies contact you direct, no agency cut.
What festival staff work is there in London?
Festival staff work in London runs May to September: BST Hyde Park (June), All Points East (August), Notting Hill Carnival (August) and Field Day at Crystal Palace Park. Festival staff roles include bar staff, stewards, site crew, stagehands and build crew, paying £100-£300+ a day. Add your name to CrewPool free and production contractors working London festivals contact you directly when they need festival staff near London.