Event work across 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:
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:
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.
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. 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.