This is our fourth day on site at Latitude Festival and everyone is very busy. We've got students working all over the site: playwork, performance, film and stage crew. What's been interesting this year is all of the additional jobs we are being asked to do. For example yesterday two of our students worked with team 'Maconie' as runners. They were helping to organise the guests for his Radio Two show. Today our helpful arena teams are assisting Radio Four, who record numerous radio shows at Latitude, with their audiences for their live shows.
When I had my planning meeting with Melvin Benn (Managing Director of Festival Republic) in November he described our partnership as the success story of the summer. I said, "why?". Melvin said, "because you're easy to work with and you do what you say you're going to do". I was surprised by the simplicity of this statement, but on reflection that is the most important thing in such a complex busy environment.
We came to Latitude with 40 volunteers last year and this year it's over 70; however it's important to remember that this isn't just a 'bums on seats' scaling up. This is the third summer of the Festival Republic partnership and the mutual respect and trust is growing. This is why we are being asked to work on high profile jobs with Festival Republic's high profile media partners - they trust us to do it right.
Rebekka Kill
Festival Republic Partnership Manager
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