Working WOMAD (UK)
WOMAD at Charlton Park runs across roughly 200 acres of the Charlton Park estate near Malmesbury, Wiltshire. The 4-day festival (typically Thursday to Sunday in late July) requires crew across three distinct phases:
Site build starts approximately 2 weeks before the July weekend. Build crew erect the multiple stages - including the main World Stage - plus bars, fencing, power infrastructure, toilets, and the campsite. Build crew day rates run £110-£150/day.
On-event crew work the 4-day festival itself. This includes bar staff across the licensed bars on site (£100-£130/day), stewards covering gates and crowd management across the 200-acre estate (£100-£120/day), litter and recycling crew, and campsite crew - WOMAD is a camping festival with a large campsite operation.
Break crew strike the site in the 2-3 days after the festival closes. It is the same skill set as build, usually offered to the same crew.
Charlton Park is close to Malmesbury, Wiltshire - straightforward travel from Bristol via the M4 (around 35 minutes), Swindon (around 25 minutes), and Cheltenham (around 40 minutes). Crew often come from across the South West and the Midlands.
Add your name to CrewPool, say you'll travel to Wiltshire, and you go on the list companies search when they're staffing WOMAD (UK). Free, two minutes, and you keep every penny of your rate.
Going as a punter, not to work? Dates, lineup and everything else about WOMAD (UK) is on Fezzy, our festival guide.
WOMAD jobs - what's on offer
WOMAD jobs cover the full 3-phase crew cycle at Charlton Park, Malmesbury, Wiltshire each July. WOMAD jobs in the build phase start approximately 2 weeks before the festival weekend - site crew, stage builders, fencing crew and power riggers are among the first WOMAD jobs to be advertised, with day rates of £110-£150/day for skilled build crew. Bar staff WOMAD jobs open as the event approaches, covering the licensed bar operation across a 200-acre estate (£100-£130/day). WOMAD jobs for stewards and gate crew run across the 4-day festival (£100-£120/day), with campsite crew and litter crew WOMAD jobs running for the full event duration plus the break phase after.
WOMAD jobs are filled directly by production contractors and event companies who staff the Charlton Park operation - not through an employment agency. The fastest route to WOMAD jobs is to add your name to CrewPool now, set your travel range to cover Malmesbury, Wiltshire, and tick the roles you can cover. WOMAD jobs for 2027 start recruiting from spring 2027; crew who are already on the list when rotas open get the first calls. Charlton Park is around 35 minutes from Bristol via the M4, making WOMAD jobs accessible for crew based across the South West.
WOMAD 2027 - sign up now
WOMAD 2026 at Charlton Park wrapped in July. WOMAD 2027 returns to Charlton Park for another 4-day July weekend.
Crew for WOMAD 2027 are recruited by production contractors and event companies in the weeks before the festival. The people who sign up to CrewPool now are the ones those contractors search when they start building their 2027 crew lists from spring onwards - before the rush, before the rotas fill.
If you are based near Bristol, check the Bristol festival jobs hub - it is the nearest city hub for WOMAD at Charlton Park and the contractors who staff it often pull from the Bristol pool first.
Hiring crew for WOMAD (UK)?
If you're a contractor or organiser staffing WOMAD (UK), CrewPool is a live list of event crew you can filter by distance from Wiltshire and by availability for your exact build dates. Search the list free, then unlock the people you want and ring them direct - no agency in the middle.