Port Eliot, Cornwall’s foremost annual festival of surprises, is on the lookout for volunteers to help to steward posts at this year’s event.

Sarah Anne Morton, Port Eliot Festival’s Volunteer Liaison Manager, said, “The festival has been a mainstay of the community of St Germans and the local area for many years now and has built up a brilliant core of local people that volunteer year after year.

"Now, we’re inviting more people to join us and to steward various posts over the event. The role includes passing on general information on the festival to the audience, giving directions, selling tickets, helping with car parking and stewarding the festival’s many distinct venues. Our stewards really help to create the special atmosphere of the festival and to make it run smoothly and we are incredibly thankful for their support.”

"Each volunteer steward receives a weekend ticket for the festival, including camping, and refreshments throughout the event .Training for stewards is provided on site.

Local volunteer, Lorraine England, said “Port Eliot Festival is one of my heartfelt passions and pleasures. I love stewarding; it’s such a pleasure and the team is fantastic. Every year, I can’t wait to meet up with my festival family again.”

To find out more, visit porteliotfestival.com/info/get-involved or email sarah.morton@porteliotfestival.com Each year, at the end of July, Port Eliot Festival fills a beautiful ancient estate on Cornwall’s Rame Peninsula with a collection of some of the most invigorating performers, thinkers, artists, writers and idlers assembled in one place at the same time.

Port Eliot Festival places equal importance on music, words, food, fashion, flowers, walking and water, not to mention idling in the countryside with a cold glass. This year’s event will see Dawn French, Noel Fielding, Kim Gordon and Russell Norman rubbing shoulders with Michael Morpurgo, Helen Dunmore, Bo Ningen, Andrew Weatherall and Ryley Walker on a bill for which ‘more than somewhat eclectic’ would seem to be the most appropriate description.

Port Eliot Festival runs from 28-31 July 2016 at St Germans, south east Cornwall. Full information at www.porteliotfestival.com