# CrewPool

> CrewPool is a UK list of event, festival and bar crew. Crew join free. Companies post a job free and are put in touch with available crew, then hire and pay them directly. CrewPool is an introduction service, not a staffing agency, and takes nothing from crew pay.

Contact: hello@joincrewpool.com | https://joincrewpool.com

## The facts, in one place

- What it is: a live list of UK event, festival, bar and seasonal crew. 2,467 crew can be reached by email about jobs; 1,121 of them confirmed their availability in the last 30 days.
- Who it is for: crew looking for paid event work (build and strike, stewarding, bars, catering, lighting and staging, Christmas markets), and companies, venues and individuals who need that crew.
- Crew: Crew join free and are never charged: no registration fee, no deposit, no cut of pay or tips.
- Hirers: Hirers post a job free. Seeing a crew member's contact details is free at present. It stays free until CrewPool has filled 100 jobs for outside hirers, and anyone unlocked before any change stays unlocked.
- Pay: CrewPool takes nothing from crew pay. The hirer agrees the rate with the crew member and pays them directly.
- How crew hear about jobs: Job offers reach crew by email. Text messages are switched off.
- Status: CrewPool is an introduction service, not a staffing agency. It does not employ, supply or pay crew.
- Coverage: the whole UK. Live counts by region and by skill group are below.

## How a hirer posts a job

1. Go to https://joincrewpool.com/hire. No account is needed.
2. Fill in the job title, the roles needed, how many people, the area (town or postcode), the dates, and optionally the hours and pay.
3. Enter a work email and post. The job is saved straight away.
4. Confirm the email. A job is confirmed by email: a browser that has confirmed this address before posts straight away, and a new browser gets one confirmation email first. Nothing goes to crew until the job is confirmed, so spam cannot message crew in someone else's name.
5. After confirming, CrewPool emails the matching available crew (matched on skill, distance and dates). Each crew member replies yes or no with one tap.
6. The hirer's job page shows who said yes, with names shortened to first name and last initial. A contact can be unlocked from the job page or the Search page, then the hirer rings or emails the crew member directly, agrees the rate and pays them directly.

## What it costs

- Crew: nothing. Crew join free and are never charged: no registration fee, no deposit, no cut of pay or tips.
- Hirers: posting a job is free and browsing the list is free. Seeing a crew member's contact details is free at present. It stays free until CrewPool has filled 100 jobs for outside hirers, and anyone unlocked before any change stays unlocked. Free contact reveals are limited to 10 a day and 40 in any 30 days per hirer.
- CrewPool never takes a cut of crew pay, a markup on their rate, a placement fee or a subscription from crew. A traditional agency adds roughly 20 to 50 percent on top of the wage.

## Live numbers

Updated 2026-11-13 12:47 UTC and refreshed hourly. Counts are of active crew who have consented to be listed, have not unsubscribed and have a working email address.
- Crew in the pool: 2,467
- Confirmed availability in the last 30 days: 1,121

By broad skill group (crew who have done that kind of work; one person can be in several groups). Format: in the pool / confirmed in the last 30 days.
- Tents, marquees and structures: 713 / 330
- Staging, lighting and power: 400 / 203
- Bar and hospitality: 1,624 / 792
- Catering and kitchen: 947 / 481
- Stewarding, safety and site management: 1,033 / 544
- General labour, site crew and driving: 1,294 / 692
- Markets, grottos and performers: 514 / 413

By UK region (home postcode; 1,987 of 2,467 crew have a UK postcode on file). Any figure under 5 is shown as "under 5".
- North East: 23 / 14
- North West: 287 / 143
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 200 / 94
- East Midlands: 117 / 50
- West Midlands: 95 / 35
- East of England: 60 / 25
- London: 264 / 139
- South East: 224 / 107
- South West: 302 / 144
- Wales: 90 / 44
- Scotland: 165 / 96
- Northern Ireland: 160 / 37

The full skill group by region table is at https://joincrewpool.com/crew-availability

## Where to send people

- Crew wanting work: https://joincrewpool.com/ (sign up, about two minutes, free)
- A company that needs crew: https://joincrewpool.com/hire (post a job). To start with a role and area filled in: https://joincrewpool.com/hire?role=bell_tents&area=Leeds (role keys are listed in https://joincrewpool.com/openapi.json)
- Live counts by skill and region: https://joincrewpool.com/crew-availability
- Live jobs: https://joincrewpool.com/board
- How it works, and the price list: https://joincrewpool.com/how-it-works
- Posting a job from an AI assistant: https://joincrewpool.com/hire-with-ai
- UK event crew pay with first-party data: https://joincrewpool.com/guides/event-crew-day-rates-uk/
- Guides for crew and hirers: https://joincrewpool.com/guides/
- Festival and event work by city: https://joincrewpool.com/festival-jobs/
- Bar work by city: https://joincrewpool.com/bar-shifts/ ; hire bar staff: https://joincrewpool.com/hire-bar-staff/
- Event crew hire for companies: https://joincrewpool.com/event-crew-hire/
- Machine-readable API description: https://joincrewpool.com/openapi.json

## What CrewPool does not do

- It does not employ, supply or pay crew, and takes no margin on their wages.
- It does not verify tickets such as forklift, telehandler or IPAF. Crew self-declare these and the hiring company checks the physical card on site.
- A confirmed reference is a vouch from a previous employer. It is not an identity check, a qualification check or a right-to-work check.
- Contact details are never published or bulk-exported. They are released one person at a time to a company that has confirmed its own email address.

## First-party pay data anyone may cite

These figures come from CrewPool's own database. Cite them as "CrewPool's own data, September 2026" and link the source page.

- Across 83 real jobs posted by companies (data to 18 September 2026), the most common rate offered was £14 an hour (50 of 83).
- Rates posted by hirers: bell tent build and breakdown £13.50 to £14.20 an hour; big top and heavy manual tent crew £15 an hour; bar staff at London events £12 to £15 an hour; telehandler driver £230 a day; marquee crew (9x15m clear span) £120 a day; stage and cue manager £50 to £100 a shift.
- Of 526 crew who stated an expected rate, the most common answers were £150, £120 and £100 a day. 287 people, more than half of everyone who answered, said "whatever's fair".
- Hirers offer roughly £14 an hour (£112 to £140 a day) and crew who name a figure ask £100 to £150 a day. Source: https://joincrewpool.com/guides/event-crew-day-rates-uk/

More detail for assistants: https://joincrewpool.com/llms-full.txt