The Beer Festival is staffed by unpaid volunteers with around 350 people turning up to help us at some time or other. The majority of these are CAMRA members with a small number of non-members who are invited specially for the event.

Many thanks to all our volunteers at PBF2024

Making sure our volunteers are well looked after is of paramount importance to the organisers. We believe that Peterborough Beer Festival is one of the more generous festivals in the country and our previous volunteers have enjoyed their time with us.
All staff will receive a complimentary festival glass and discount on festival clothing.
Free camping is available but is based upon first come first served. We cannot guarantee a camping space unless pre-booked. Tent size should be as small as possible.
As many will know, the festival has extensive catering facilities, providing extremely good value food. Substantial lunches and dinners are provided for all our volunteers, for a nominal fee.
Tea, coffee and soft drinks are available at all times free of charge.
There's more staff information in the handbook. You will be emailed the latest version of the Staff Information leaflet and the Health and Safety leaflet shortly before the festival starts.
You can download a copy of the H&S information here: Volunteers' Health & Safety Manual 2024
You will also be supplied with a copy of the national CAMRA Volunteers Handbook.
But you can download a copy here: CAMRA HQ Health and Safety for Volunteers

Managing staffing numbers

We require most of our volunteers to work on our busiest days which are Thursday, Friday and Saturday. As Tuesday and Wednesday are fairly quiet we usually have far more staff than we need. It is for this reason that some volunteers wishing to work on these 2 days may not be required and we will unfortunately have to ask you to volunteer from Thursday onwards.
We also require volunteers before the festival opens as there is lots of work to be done. From putting up security fencing to taking deliveries, from hanging posters to setting out chairs and everything else in between. When that has been done we're ready for the festival to start

Our promise about the information you provide us

The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) takes your privacy very seriously. Peterborough and District CAMRA branch are collecting your data so that we can contact you about the Peterborough Beer Festival. We will only contact you in relation to this specific event. We will treat your data as outlined in our privacy policy.
Please visit www.camra.org.uk/privacypolicy for further information. We will keep your information for a maximum of 15 months and only use it to contact you in relation to the festival. We will process your data in accordance with the 2018 General Data Protection Regulations.
If you have any concerns regarding data protection please contact us at ku.gro.armac@noitcetorpatad