‘A big chunk of positive energy’: Green Man celebrates 10 years of training refugees

Javid, from Afghanistan, says he had never camped outdoors or gone to a music festival before working at Green Man. Photograph: Green Man Festival

For many young people growing up in Britain, their first music festival is a rite of passage; watching live music in a field with thousands of others, sleeping under the stars, and spending time with friends old and new.

Green Man festival in Wales has been extending that formative experience to refugees and asylum seekers – who are offered training placements that help them develop valuable skills as they work to build new lives in Britain.