Wood, who has been an event welfare director for 21 years, said his living room “becomes like a jumble sale [and] smells of ‘festival’.<\/p>\n
“Sometimes we get someone’s suitcase with their whole belongings right at the first day and nobody will pick it up until the last day,” he said.<\/p>\n
“So how they’re camping or what they’re doing, we just don’t know.”<\/p>\n
He expects a year’s haul of lost property from the multiple festivals he works for to include about 500 passports, a similar number of driving licences and “unmentionable” items.<\/p>\n
“It’s such a good job because when we see people coming up… we’re like just the best thing,” Wood added.<\/p>\n
“It’s like, ‘we can’t thank you enough’. Just to reunite something with someone.”<\/p>\n
His career highlight was the wallet stuffed with \u00a3364 that was reunited with its owner at the Creamfields Festival.<\/p>\n
“There’s some really good people about that hand lost stuff in nowadays,” Wood said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wood, who has been an event welfare director for 21 years, said his living room “becomes like a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-650586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}