Snappers and scribblers wanted

Can you write like a dream or sum up a festival in a dozen photographs? Do you go to festies as part of a family group, either with kids, aunties and uncles, parents or all the above? Are you interested in the whole festival experience, not just the mainstage bands? Can you Tweet as you go and turn round copy and pictures within 24 hours of getting home again?

If you’ve answered “yes!” to most of the above, then Family Festivals needs you to join our Review Crew. Established Review Crew volunteers can get free tickets to festivals and access to the pit for photography. But they are also passionate about what they are doing, sharing news, info and experiences as well as capturing those amazing festival sunsets, crowds and campfire scenes to share with others.

Here is what we expect from a Review Crew volunteer:

1) Good writing skills. Doesn’t have to be professional journalism (our editor trakes care of that sort of thing), just the ability to write interesting, accurate reviews taking in the whole festival experience as you see it.

2) Self-discipline. When you get home sunburnt, exhausted and with a bag of muddy clothes, do you a) sleep for a week, or b) write up the event while the memories are still fresh? If you answered b) – or fancy taking a laptop and writing it up WHILE at the festival, you could join our crew.

3) Great kids. We’ve all got great kids and try to give them a voice on Family Festivals. We’d expect Review Crew teams to take their kids along and make the time within the festival to do lots of family-orientated activities and get their kids’ feedback on them. If your kids can write or take pictures too then double bonus!

4) Live outside the South of England. Not essential, but all our crew so far live in the South/South East and a combination of time, old vans and petrol costs mean we don’t get to review as many Northern festivals as we’d like to. We’d love to have North of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland correspondents on board.

So, does any of that sound like you? If you’re interested in writing for us, send a real-life sample review (up to 500 words), or selection or your best photographs to editorial@familyfestivals.co.uk stating what festivals you’d like to cover and who you’d take. We’ll get back to you!