Glastonbury Festival has a conscience! Part of it's
aim is to help create a better world for us all by being a positive force for change.
The Festival has been a supporter of many good causes over the
years, the main beneficiary until the end of the Cold War being
CND.
Nowadays the three main beneficiaries are Greenpeace,
Oxfam
and WaterAid.
These three organisations benefitted to the tune of £500,000 in
1997 from direct donations from the Festival. From the 2002 Festival, over £1M was paid to charities, local groups and good causes. This represents around 10% of the Festivals turnover (not profit!).
For more information about Oxfam at Glastonbury, click here
page.
They all have information areas within the Festival - please take
the time to visit them, and see what you can do to help improve
your life, your future and your world.
The village of Pilton also gets to benefit from the mad invasion
they allow to disturb their peace.
Pilton playing fields and the pavilion in the playing fields benefit,
and the Festival runs the Friday night Pilton Party first Friday
in September, all the proceeds going into a fund that the various
village groups can make applications to.
There are many good causes that choose to promote themselves each
Festival, from local British issues to international ones. These
are usually located within the Green Fields. Please find time to
visit them, as part of the Festival is finding information that
may help improve yours or someone else's life.
One registered charity that also works within the festival is
The Brighton Peace & Environment Centre which runs the property
lock-ups at the Festival, as well as having a stall, and running
coaches from/to Brighton.
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