Wellies and WaterAid collaborate at Glastonbury Festival

Glastonbury Festival organiser Emily Eavis, is supporting the new collaboration between Hunter Boot, the Wellington boot maker and the international charity WaterAid at the 2008 Glastonbury Festival.

Hunter Boots, who have been making waterproof footwear since 1856, have specially designed limited edition boots that will be signed by artists, performers and other recognised personalities and auctioned after the festival to raise money for WaterAid.

A limited edition run of these unique boots will be also be sold from July 2008 exclusively through the Hunter web-site with a donation per sale going to WaterAid.

Funds raised from the sale of the boots and the auction will go to four rural communities in Madagascar to enable them to gain access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education. The Malagasy Government reports that in Madagascar only 27% of the population has safe water and 36% have adequate sanitation. For the majority of the 17.3million people who live in Madagascar, the lack of access to safe water and sanitation has a severe impact on health and livelihood. Malaria, diarrhea, dysentery and respiratory diseases are common place in rural Madagascar and millions of work and school days are lost each year because of illness.



Emily Eavis commented, "We are encouraging our performers and guests to sign pairs of Hunter WaterAid boots backstage during the festival to ensure we help raise as much money as possible."

WaterAid is one of the key international charities with a long term association with the Glastonbury Festival, helping to ensure that toilets are maintained and thirsty festival goers are watered, while raising awareness of WaterAid and its campaigns.

Mike Todd, International Sales Director for Hunter Boot Limited said, "We are delighted to be involved with such an exciting and worthwhile project which we hope will raise significant funds for WaterAid and help educate people about the issues concerning water usage and sanitation."

£20,000 will be donated to WaterAid but if sales of the limited edition boots exceed expectations then there is an opportunity for more money to be raised and donated from the sale of the boots. The Wellie boot people are also running a competition to win a pair of tickets and boots.

eFestivals donates around 1% of our yearly turnover (turnover, not profit) as cash to charities and good causes. Donations have been made to various charities, with the main beneficiary each year being WaterAid.



Glastonbury Festival which takes place over the weekend of Friday 27th to Sunday 29th June and has hundreds of acts performing at the festival, with the line-ups altering slightly all the time, to see who is playing where over all the stages at the festival in June take a look at the Glastonbury 2008 line-up.

Those wishing to attend can register online, click here and then purchase tickets.

Please note that there will be no editing facility for late registrations, so please ensure that all your details are correct, and that your photo is of a suitable size and standard, before submitting your details. Registration, involves filling in a simple form and supplying a passport photograph, and full details can be found at www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk.

The ticket costs £155 for a weekend ticket, plus £5 booking fee per ticket and £4 post and packaging per order. To buy tickets for this year's Glastonbury, you'll need to have pre-registered and have your registration number and postcode to hand, plus the registration number and postcode of anyone else you're buying for. Please not that the deadline for refunds has now passed.

Tickets can be purchased through www.seetickets.com or by phone from 0800 079 2008 for UK buyers and 0044 1159 934 183 for overseas buyers. Overseas ticket purchases can only be made using either Visa or Mastercard credit cards. UK sales will not be accepted on the International Ticket Sales Line, or any other Seetickets telephone lines.

No one other than the above are allowed to sell tickets, and alternative outlets offering them should not be used.

Remember that this year the Festival wants festival-goers to work them to Love the farm, Leave no Trace by travelling light, only bringing what you're willing to carry home. When you buy your tent and camping gear, don't buy the cheapest, get something you'll want to keep. when it's time to go, pack up your stuff and take it away.

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