Saturday, September 13, 2014

From an ex Greenbelt Board member - thanx

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To all the stewards who manned gates, campsite and venues, pre-festival, early mornings, late nights and through the night too (many offered to take on extra shifts when the weather was wet);
To our incredible access team who helped festivalgoers with additional needs to manage the site more ably;
To the great volunteers in our children's and youth teams who made sure all ages were engaged, challenged, nurtured and having fun;
To the beer tent and wine bar teams, pulling pints and smiling;
To the operations teams who make sure the entire festival runs smoothly - duty managers, control room, front desk and venue managers;
To the teams making coffee and tea in The Tank, contributors', angels' and volunteers' lounges;
To the amazing and colourful team who drove our golf buggy taxis around the site;
To those welcoming people arriving at the box office and festival reception and providing information in the info booth;
To everyone serving in the G-Store shop, selling tees, hoodies and recorded talks;
To those selling tins of beans and pints of milk in the Milk & Honey general store;
To the team recording the talks in the venues and duplicating in time for sale;
To the volunteers recording film in the GTV;
To the photographers seeing, framing, snapping and uploading;
To the team in G-Source who looked after all the exhibitors from other charities and their volunteers;
To everyone backstage at the Glade, Canopy, Roots and Big Top;
To the volunteers on stage compering all of the venues;
To the volunteers looking after the caterers and traders;
To the early birds and site vibing teams who transformed the fields and woods into a fab festival;
To all the volunteers who look after our contributors;
To all the volunteers who look after other volunteers;
To everyone involved in keeping the festival safe - our medics, fire crew, event safety, noise control, safeguarding and counselling;
To volunteers who helped to book the programme, music, literature, ideas, worship, performing arts, comedy and visual arts;
To everyone behind the scenes, making payments, counting cash, sorting data, writing blogs, making up-to-the-minute decisions in meetings, liaising with press, photocopying, emptying bins, packing boxes, loading vans, driving trucks, making tea, fetching and carrying;
To the teams from Oasis and Frontier Youth Trust who ran the detached youth service, the team from YMCA Coventry who ran the showers and the team of local volunteers who met in Geddington Church to pack the bags for the communion service.
To all of you from up and down the country and from further afield, from 16 to 76, from all churches and none, from student to Bishop of Colchester!
To all 1476 of you. Thank you to every single one.