On the day or up to 14 days ahead, anywhere in the UK. You pay the crew member's rate plus Gaffr's £25 fee per crew member.
On demand
Crewing has never worked on demand. Two hands short with doors in four hours? Post it, and verified crew nearby who are free right now get it. No ring-round, no short-notice premium.
Gaffr
Drop a pin. Set the call time, the hours and the most you'll pay an hour. We offer it to verified crew nearby who charge that or less. First to accept gets the booking, and you see their rate the moment they do.
Gaffr Live
Set your rate. Take the shifts you want. Work them. Gaffr takes nothing from your fee. No invoicing. No chasing.
How it works: booking crew
Venue, call time, hours, role and the most you'll pay an hour. Add notes for crew if they need them. No account manager, no back-and-forth.
Verified crew nearby who charge that or less get the offer: whoever's live for a job today, or taking scheduled work for one ahead. First to accept gets it. You see who's coming, their rate and their record.
Confirming puts a hold on your card. You're charged the crew member's rate for the hours booked, plus Gaffr's fee, and the rest of the hold is released. Your bank decides when the release shows.
Both sides rate after the shift, and neither sees the other's until both are in, or 14 days pass. No fake-positivity loops.
How it works: Gaffr Live
Right-to-work, photo ID, public liability, approved before your first offer. You only upload one again when it expires, or if you've been away from Gaffr for two years.
Go live when you're free today. Switch on scheduled work to get offers for the days ahead. We only ping you when there's a shift nearby. No spam, no calls between gigs.
Call time, hours, role, the venue's address and how far it is, before you say yes. Passing costs you nothing. First to accept gets the shift, then you get the client's notes, the site contact and the meeting point.
Your rate, in full. Gaffr takes nothing from it. Once the client's been charged and the shift's booked end time has passed, agreed extra hours included, your pay goes to your Stripe account automatically. No invoice, no chasing. Rate each other once it's done.
The numbers
Crew fee plus Gaffr's fee equals your total. Both on every quote, on their own lines, before you confirm. Nothing you can't see.
Gaffr
No cut of your rateTypical crewing agency
Worked example
1 crew member · 8-hour shift · £25/hr
You pay the crew member's fee plus £25 to Gaffr. Extra hours only happen if the crew member agrees.
Gaffr's fee sits on its own line. It's never a slice of the crew member's rate. An agency's cut scales with what you pay, and you rarely see it.
Cancel before a crew member accepts: free, and the hold's released. After that: more than 48 hours before the call, still free. Inside 48 hours, half the crew member's fee plus Gaffr's fee. Inside 24 hours, or once they're on the way, all of it plus Gaffr's fee. The crew member's share goes to them. No grace period inside 48 hours. Full terms here.
If you book live-events crew through agencies and you're tired of the markup, the phone-tag, and the no-shows, this is for you.
Your hourly rate, in full. Gaffr's fee is paid by the client and never comes out of yours.
Right-to-work, photo ID, public liability. Blind two-way ratings. Crew offered the shift see the venue's address; only the one who accepts gets the site contact. You see who's coming once it's booked.
What we stand for
VERIFIED CREW. NO AGENCY IN BETWEEN.
I'D RATHER BE A PIRATE
THAN JOIN THE NAVY
Visible rates. Visible reputations. Visible fees. If you can't say it out loud, it shouldn't be happening on Gaffr.
Crew keep every penny of their rate. Clients see Gaffr's fee on its own line. Nobody's margin hides in the middle. That's how the model works, not a line in a pitch deck.
We don't cut corners, hide margins, or protect bad actors. The platform holds everyone to the same standard. Including us.
EVERYONE WINS, EXCEPT THE ESTABLISHMENT
Who's behind it
I started on site in 2007. Nineteen years later I'd seen the agency model from both sides, and I knew it was the same flawed model that was created 30 years ago. Gaffr is the fix.
Get on the list
Gaffr books crew for venues anywhere in the UK, and crew join from all over it, by invite. Put your name down and we'll email you when it's your turn.
Tell us which side of the job you're on and we'll put you on the right list.