Volunteering

Stewards are the public face of CSM and play a vital role. Working with the Festival Director and Festival Assistants, stewards are responsible for ensuring that audiences have a safe and enjoyable experience.

Stewards perform a number of different duties, including assisting with ticket and programme sales, guiding people to their seats, serving drinks at venues with an interval bar, and providing assistance in the event of an emergency. Training is given for all of these duties. Potential volunteers should note that stewarding can be physically demanding, with extended periods of standing.

We appreciate the tremendous, unpaid work that our volunteer stewards do – without them the Festival could not happen. In return we try to ensure that stewards are able to hear most of the concerts they are assigned to. It is essential that one or two stewards remain outside during an event, for example to deal with latecomers, but these duties are assigned on a rota basis and stewards have the opportunity to indicate any concert they particularly want to attend.

• Invitation to our annual Festival Launch event;
• Two complimentary tickets to a concert of your choice.

We welcome volunteers willing to help distribute posters, flyers and brochures – particularly in areas outside Cambridge. Even if you can only distribute a handful of posters in your neighbourhood, you are giving much-valued help with spreading the word and raising awareness.