Volunteer
**Applications are now open to volunteer at the 2025 Cambridge Film Festival**
Volunteering for the Cambridge Film Festival
Every year, the Cambridge Film Festival recruits enthusiastic volunteers to help with every aspect of the Festival.
It's no exaggeration to say that without these volunteers and interns, delivering the UK's third-longest-running film festival would be impossible. If you are interested in volunteering at this year's Festival, sign up below, and our volunteer coordinator will contact you.
Who is eligible to volunteer?
Volunteers must be aged 16 or older.
You also need to be local to Cambridge. Unfortunately, we cannot provide accommodation and cannot usually provide travel arrangements.
Training and welcome sessions will be provided before the Festival, so it is useful if you can be available for those as well. They are great for better understanding what is involved with the busy Festival and meeting the other people you will be volunteering with.
The attributes we seek in applicants because we consider them vital to a good volunteer are:
- a friendly, smiley manner
- common sense
- good initiative
- a strong interest in film
- an interest in and awareness of the Cambridge Film Trust's activities, including the Festival
We welcome volunteers of all backgrounds, ages and ethnicities, and are committed to inclusion and equal opportunity. We encourage applications from individuals who face barriers to access or who may not see themselves represented in traditional creative spaces.
Volunteer duties include ushering at screenings, assisting with marketing activities, assisting the hospitality team, and runner tasks, including general office and front-of-house duties to keep the Festival running smoothly.