We’re on the hunt for enthusiastic and dedicated people to join our Kick-Starter Programme, a skills development programme for young people (or the young at heart) interested in the media or creative industries who are looking to gain valuable experience for their future careers. You will volunteer alongside our fun and friendly festival team to produce HowTheLightGetsIn London 2025, from the 20-21st September!

The festival is a unique event which sees world-leading thinkers and performers gather at our beautiful festival location at Kenwood House in Hampstead Heath. Not only will you learn new skills and meet new friends and contacts, you will also get the unique experience of seeing festival debates, live music, film, and comedy from behind the scenes as part of our team.

Places on the Festival Kick-Starter Programme are available to people over 18 from around the UK and beyond. Kick-Starters can get involved with a variety of roles, and can expect to gain experience in one or some of the following areas:

• Events Management – managing one of our multiple venues means keeping things running on time, ensuring the venue is ready for events to start, and working with both the tech and production team to get sound and set up just right for each event.
• Production Assistant – playing a key role in the behind-the-scenes of our events, ensuring
  speakers are where they need to be and assisting the production team on prep before events.
• Press & Marketing- working with our press team to assist in managing and working with the
  press over the festival weekend.
• Filming & Broadcast Media – working with our film crew to assist in ensuring all of our
  debates and talks are filmed to the highest quality across the weekend.
• Green room and arrivals tent - making sure guests, speakers and artists are checked in, and receive their wristbands.
• Subscribers Lounge - managing our Subscribers Lounge to ensure our guests and members of the press are looked after.

Kick-starters must be available from Friday 19th September - Sunday 22nd September, as we run training sessions on the Friday.

Kickstarter applications for HowTheLightGetsIn London 2025 are now open! Link below to apply:

https://howthelightgetsin.regfox.com/htlgi-kick-starters-london-2025

If you have any questions about the Programme, please email kickstarter@artandideas.org