27,000 volunteers made RF26 an unforgettable week filled with new memories for life. And thanks to their enormous efforts, we can now donate the entire surplus to good initiatives that make a difference for children and young people – locally, regionally and globally.
During RF26, volunteers were invited to nominate their personal festival heroes. With their help, we have now selected a number of festival heroes whom we are celebrating for their extraordinary efforts.
HEROES CELEBRATED BY THE VOLUNTEER COMMUNITY
This year’s RFheroes were honoured on Saturday 12 September, when the festival’s year-round volunteer champions and members of the Roskilde Festival Society gathered to bring RF26 to a close.
This year, Fauna emerged as a new green focal point in the festival city.
Behind the stage and the area are det lange arbejdshold fra Byplan & Logistik and scenebyggeholdet fra Program. From the earliest ideas to the finished area, the teams have shown strong collaboration and impressive creativity.
Thank you for your enormous efforts. Your burning commitment could be felt throughout the area.
For many volunteers, the most important thing is that everyone else has a great festival. One of them is Wayne Gaustring, who has been a safety host at the festival for many years.
This year, he has been selected as the year’s helpful volunteer because he always goes the extra mile, much to the delight of everyone around him.
He provides food for his fellow volunteers during the late-night shifts, and whenever extra hands are needed for an additional task, his hand is always the first in the air.
A big thank you to Wayne Gaustring for taking such good care of everyone else.
Coordinating and handling refund in a temporary festival city of 130,000 inhabitants is a complex logistical puzzle.
Fortunately, there are volunteers like Max Koch, who has been involved for more than 10 years – in recent years leading the team that heads out to help our refund stalls.
Max Koch is behind this year’s volunteer effort because he always approaches tasks with positive energy and innovative solutions. And no matter what time of day or night the phone rings, Max is ready to help.
That means a great deal to everyone he helps – and especially to those on his own team, who return year after year because of him.
Thank you for leading the way, making it easier for everyone else to follow!
The festival is brought to life by many other associations. Some of them carry out essential service tasks, while others run a food stall or bar. And as a volunteer for an association, you help create an amazing festival while raising money for the association’s own activities.
One of them is Foreningen Kulturmejeriet, which runs a non-profit venue in Lund, Sweden. This year, they brought 136 volunteers, whom you may have met in one of the bars or gates.
They have been named this year’s volunteer community because they create a truly unique sense of community almost 100 kilometres from their usual surroundings, where everyone helps each other and new friendships flourish across national borders.
Tack så mycket! See you next year!
Another association taking part in creating the festival is Danske Døves Landsforbund.
The association is behind a popular stall where volunteers serve delicious milkshakes and raise important awareness of being deaf.
They have been selected as this year’s association because they create an inclusive community where everyone is ready to help one another. This became clear on Friday evening, when several of the team’s volunteers stepped in to give their fellow volunteers a break from the growing queue.
Thank you so much for being an exemplary community that welcomes both each other and festivalgoers with open arms.
Would you like to become part of the volunteer community yourself? You can let us know already.
We will contact you as soon as registration opens for becoming a volunteer at RF27.
