Roskilde Festival 2026 is just around the corner! Have you got everything sorted before you head off? Here is a short guide to all the most important information.
People is Roskilde Festival’s volunteer database, where all volunteers have a profile. Here, you can find your team, your contact person and your check-in card, which you need to get your wristband. If you have questions about your role and tasks, please contact your team leader.
The rest of this guide takes you through the most important information, but if you are still looking for the answer to a question, you can always check the app or our website.
Before the festival, you can find your personal check-in card on the front page of your People profile.
When collecting your wristband, it is important that you bring your check-in card and photo ID.
You collect your wristband at check-in in building 6 at Roskilde Handelsskole, Bakkesvinget 67 – north of the festival site.
See opening hours and other practical information about check-in
If you have lost your wristband, you must inform your manager and go to check-in.
As a volunteer, you can travel for free on Nobina’s buses from Høje Taastrup, Køge Nord and Roskilde Station to the festival before you have received your volunteer wristband. Simply show your check-in card when boarding.
We recommend that everyone uses public transport or cycles to the festival. However, we understand that some people need to arrive by car, so we have a number of parking spaces available in connection with Roskilde Festival.
There are two large car parking areas – EAST and WEST – where volunteers can park their vehicles free of charge in the volunteer parking areas.
Our camping area for volunteers, Volunteer Camping, is fully booked for RF26.
Volunteers can cancel their spot in Volunteer Camping until Saturday 27 June at 10:00. If a volunteer cancels their spot, a new spot becomes available for others to book. If you did not manage to book a spot, you can keep an eye on People to see whether the product becomes available again.
Read more about Volunteer Camping
You can also use the general camping areas at Entrance East and Entrance West. We recommend arriving on Saturday 27 June.
If you do not find an available spot, you can visit Camping Wayfinding in Clean Out Loud or Get A Place East on Saturday 27 June and Sunday 28 June. Here, you can get help and be directed to an area where tent spots are still available.
See the locations of the two places on the festival map in the app.
You can download the official Roskilde Festival app on your phone, where you can log in as a Volunteer using your People login. This gives you access to volunteer news, the festival map and much more.
If you have an iPhone, you can download the app from the App Store.
If you have an Android phone, you can download the app here: http://roskil.de/app
Roskilde Festival is a non-profit festival. This means that all financial surplus is donated to charitable causes after the festival.
Your contribution as a volunteer helps make this possible. Thank you!
It is not a given that we as a festival can make the difference we do. We can only do so because we are organised by a charitable society – the Roskilde Festival Charity Society. You can become a member!
By joining the society, you contribute even more than you already do as a volunteer – you contribute to the future development of the festival.
Visit Volunteers’ Village – the meeting place for all volunteers at the festival!
Here, you can take a well-deserved break, join great activities and enjoy good times in the volunteer bar with the rest of the volunteer community.
See opening hours and activities in Volunteers’ Village
In Volunteer Lounge East, you can enjoy a cup of coffee, tea or lemonade with your fellow volunteers, charge your phone and use the free hot showers.
You can find the area in East City. See its location in the volunteer version of the festival map.
If you need to get around the festival area, you can take the shuttle bus, which is free for volunteers upon presentation of a volunteer wristband.
There is always one meal and something to drink during an eight-hour shift. Either from the stall you are in or in the form of a food voucher that you can use at the festival’s food stalls.
If you have many short shifts during the festival, you are not necessarily guaranteed a meal during each shift. If you are unsure about what applies to you, please contact your team leader.
There is no food when you are not on shift, but you are welcome to bring your own food, and we have bonfire areas where you can prepare it.
As a volunteer at Roskilde Festival, you can get this year's unique volunteer print on a piece of clothing, tote bag, bucket hat, or other textile made of cotton or polyester that you bring along. You can get the volunteer print at the Merchandise Mainstore.
At Roskilde Festival, you are rarely alone, even if you may not know many people who are going. The festival has a very special atmosphere that makes it easy to start talking to others.
The same is true as a volunteer. You become part of a very special community, both when you are on shift and when you enjoy the festival’s many offers.
If you find it difficult to find someone to spend time with, ask the other volunteers in your team whether they would like to explore the festival city together.
And remember that you can always join the wider volunteer community in Volunteers’ Village, where there are many exciting activities.
As a volunteer, you help create Roskilde Festival.
We therefore ask you to:
- Think about yourself as a co-creator of your own as well as everybody else’s festival experience. Be the volunteer you want others to be!
- Treat everybody with tolerance and respect – and make sure that others do the same.
- Contributes to a safe and peaceful festival by always being someone who helps create good solutions and a sense of safety for everyone.
When carrying out your assignments as a volunteer, we expect that you:
- Show up on time.
- Take responsibility. Thoroughly acquaint yourself with your assignment before your first shift. If in doubt, speak with your leader.
- Will not leave your shift before you’re relieved. If it is busy, offer to stay a bit longer.
- Immediately let your leader know, if you will be late or will not be able to show up for your shift.
- Ask for help from the person responsible for the area if you are asked something you are unsure about.
- Speak to festivalgoers and co-volunteers in a nice and proper manner.
- Will help your co-volunteers by showing your wristband when passing through a gate, opening your bag etc.
- Have not consumed or are under the influence of alcohol or illegal drugs while performing your role.
- Help collect and separate trash and be conscious about reducing waste.
- Clean up after yourself, in the place where you have slept, before you go home.
- Respect that there must be quiet in volunteer campsite
Roskilde Festival is an experience we share together, and we all play a part in making the festival a good place to be. That is why we have a code of conduct with five simple guidelines, so that together we can look after each other and the community.
You must arrive on time for your shifts. You must be sober and ready to carry out your tasks.
If you are under the influence of alcohol or illegal drugs, you will be expelled from the festival and charged a fee of DKK 4,500.
If you get sick during the festival and are unable to attend your shift, you must contact your team leader immediately.
Together, you will find a solution – either by swapping your shift with someone from your team or by revoking your wristband and sending you home from the festival site so a new volunteer can take over your shifts.
If you fail to show up for a shift without a valid reason and without informing your leader, Roskilde Festival may revoke your wristband and charge a fine of DKK 4,500.
Additionally, you will be banned from volunteering at the festival for the next three years.