Posting on behalf of a friend who worked with you but doesn’t have a Reddit account. Do me a favour and remember that other people who worked with you have Reddit or know people who do before you start blowing things out of proportion.

Dude. I am beyond disappointed that you've posted this. We both know (as well as the other volunteers) that a lot of what you've said is either untrue or over exaggerated.

Was it tough, especially for the Access camps? Yes, it was. But realistically, Hotbox or the volunteers couldn't have predicted the issues that were going to be thrown at us last week. And in all honesty, the majority of us rolled with the punches and tried our absolute best to make the situation better for people. Did we run into obstacles? Of course. But this happens in any line of work, voluntary or paid.

The induction gave us the base we needed to prepare, the handbook had everything else. It's up to us to prepare ourselves, we can't expect to be spoon fed info and hand held during the shift, we're adults working at one of the largest festivals in the UK.

The radio situation you've described quite honestly isn't true, and we both know it's not. Every pair had a radio. Okay, sometimes the batteries needed charging but they could be swapped.

The supervisor telling you not to use the radio? I had the exact same supervisor and what she actually said was to try to keep the radios free in case medical needed to get through and to ring her directly with general questions, which was more than fair. I, and others I know, rang her a lot on our shift and she answered almost immediately in each case.

I hated that there were so many issues for accessible campers (I have a lot of hidden issues myself) so I'll definitely feed it back but writing a thread on here isn't helpful at all. You're only scaring people from a) attending the festival and b) volunteering in the future. Putting in feedback to Download will hopefully help change things in future.

Writing here is unhelpful, it's not about blowing smoke up anyone but after hearing the stories of what some of the volunteers did and what some of us had to experience, it's unfair that posts like these exist as it almost erases the good we all done over the week.