Join a team

We’d love to recruit a small team to support any of the young people on-site who have additional needs. To join this team, you’ll need specific skills and experience of working with young people or children who have additional needs.

Know your espressos from your cappuccinos? A boss at latte art? We need loads of awesome volunteers to help run our different cafés on site. You’ll be working with your team leader to serve drinks, use the tills to take payments, keep the snacks stocked and make sure the venue is clean and tidy. Bonus points if you can make a good cuppa! (All teams will receive training on the coffee machines!)

Canvas is a space dedicated to exploring creativity. We’re going to use this venue to run loads of different workshops and classes – covering everything from art to TikTok making, creative writing to gardening! We’ll make space to display some of the pieces created throughout the event too, which could then spark inspiration for others. We’re looking for a small team to help facilitate some of these sessions; they will be run by someone especially skilled in the field so although you won’t need to be a pro artist yourself, you’ll need to have some interest in the creative arts.

We’ll have about 400 volunteers serving at Satellites, so we need a whole bunch of brilliant people on our catering team to help feed them all. You’ll be responsible for helping our team leaders to prepare the food, dishing them up and clearing away at the end of each meal.

From managing all on-site radio traffic to coordinating the response to any emergencies, the Comms team play a vital role at Satellites to ensure that the event runs smoothly. You’ll need to be organised, calm, good at communicating and able to keep calm under pressure – plus bonus points if you already know your phonetic alphabet for chatting on the radio!

As well as having heaps of fun at Satellites, it’s important that we make sure to look after those delegates who might be having a trickier time. We’re recruiting a detached team, including a few experienced mental health first aiders, who can be around to provide extra support for young people on-site.

If you’re a qualified first aider or medical professional, we’d love you to join our first aid team at Satellites. Whilst we’re hoping that no one gets hurt or sick at Satellites, these things do sometimes happen and so we’re looking for a friendly first aid team to be the first point of call for any medical situations that may arise. You’ll need to be confident at making decisions about the best course of treatment if someone gets hurt, and able to stay calm under pressure.

Headstrong is a cafe and hub for activities around mental health and wellbeing. That means there'll be short talks about dealing with things like depression and anxiety, but also lots of chilled out activities that use the arts to explore the theme of wellbeing. It’s also a hugely popular cafe serving delicious milkshakes. The venue is linked to Youthscape’s mental health project called Headstrong - you can check out more at beheadstrong.uk. We’re looking for enthusiastic helpers who can run the cafe, organise games and creative activities and who care about helping young people with their mental health.

If you’re super friendly and incredibly organised, we’d love you to think about joining our Info team. This team are responsible for helping all delegates with any of their practical needs on site – from booking queries to broken wristbands, questions about the programme or lost property. You’ll need to be approachable and confident when chatting with both young people and youth leaders, plus able to problem solve!

Do you love working with children? We’re excited that Satellites is going to be an epic week for the kids of all the youth leaders on site – and we need a brilliant team to help make that happen. It will be split into two age groups and you can let us know which one you’d prefer to be based with: Satell-Mites for the 1-4s and Satellites Kids for the 5-12s. There will be a couple of main sessions each day, plus a range of afternoon activities. Alongside games, drama, experiments, crafts, sports and maybe even a gunge tank(!), the kids on-site at Satellites will be encouraged to explore what it looks like to put God at the centre of their lives in a way that is suitable and engaging for them, as well as making friends and having a lot of fun along the way!

Satellites’ vision is to empower youth leaders and young people to put God at the centre of their lives, so our aim is to facilitate prayer rather than take over.

Our team is here to help young people pray for each other and to offer support to them and their leaders. We provide the space to go deeper in talking stuff through and praying with them.

To become a member of team you can have loads of experience of prayer and/or pastoral work, or absolutely none. You just need to share our vision and join the team.

Love chatting to people? Always wish you’d owned your own shop? The Satellites Store might be the place for you! The Satellites Store is where we’ll be selling our limited-edition Satellites merch from – as well as books and resources to help young people (and their youth leaders!) in their walk with God. You’ll be responsible for keeping the Store looking great, chatting to customers and using the tills to take payment.

Know your Spike Ball from your Four Square? Able to referee a game of footie or organise a wide game? Come and join the sports team! We’re going to run an epic sports programme that everyone – regardless of their skill and experience – can join in with. We’re looking for some passionate sport fans that are up for hosting all sorts of games throughout the week – as well as helping young people to explore how putting God at the centre of our lives can impact our attitude on the pitch/court/field.

We need a skilled team of stewards to help us keep everyone safe on-site throughout Satellites. You’ll be put into groups, tasked with patrolling the site, helping delegates, checking wristbands as people go into different venues and help respond to any emergency situations that arise. This role will involve being on your feet for a chunk of time so you’ll need to be prepared for that and bring some comfy shoes you can wear. It would be a huge bonus if you know the phonetic alphabet and you’re comfortable using a radio! We aim to move your duties around so you won’t be doing the same job all week as we know that can get a bit boring.

As well as needing a team of stewards to look after everyone during the day, we also need a bunch of responsible night stewards to keep an eye on everything when everyone is asleep.

Are you technically minded or part of the sound/visuals/lighting team at your church or youth group? If so, we’re looking to gather a bunch of keen, eager and skilled people to be on our tech team. This could involve running the sound desk in a seminar, being on hand to do band changeovers after hours, setting up seminars or kids sessions or even doing screen words in the main venue. Basically if you can plug it in and it makes a noise, you’ll have something to do with it!

We need a couple of people who are happy to do some lifting, moving and organising. The Warehouse is where we keep all our deliveries, equipment, resources etc. You’ll need to be happy to move things around site, help other team members find what they need and get those items checked in and out.