Glastonbury Festival warns registrations from before 2010 are invalid for 2016

Glastonbury Festival has warned that anyone with a registration submitted prior to 2010 will therefore need to re-register before they can purchase tickets for next year's Festival.

The Festival has issued a statement on their website (here) saying:

"Photo technology has improved significantly since 2007, when the ticket registration system was first introduced. In order to maintain the quality of registration photos on tickets, and to uphold the security of the Festival ticketing system, any registrations submitted prior to 2010 have been deleted. All registrants affected by this will be contacted via email.

"Anyone with a registration submitted prior to 2010 will therefore need to re-register before they can purchase tickets for the 2016 Festival (unless they already have a valid registration from a later year).

"If you registered prior to 2010 and intend to buy tickets for the 2016 Festival, please check to see if you have any valid registrations or submit a fresh registration."

In other news 2,000 unused rain ponchos, some first aid kits, and 500 pairs of discarded boots left over after this year's Festival have been donated to Calais refugees. The boots ended up in the Festival's recycling centre, where team member Liz Clegg had the idea of donating them to the refugees in Calais.

Glastonbury Festival team member Liz Clegg had the idea of donating them to the migrants in Calais ro help relieve what has become recognized as a humanitarian crisis, and Festival organizers have also donated bin liners to a team cleaning up the camp.

"There is a massive issue at the migrant camp with rubbish collection and recycling," festival organizers said in a statement. "Migrants living in Calais are living in desperate conditions, and we're very pleased to be able to help support their basic humanitarian needs."

Some 3,000 people are living near the entrance of the Eurotunnel undersea rail link between France and Britain in a makeshift camp known as 'The Jungle', and British volunteers and grassroots groups have also been delivering tents and guitars alongside more conventional forms of aid.

Liz distributed them (and offered some first aid training) alongside Association Salam, a French charity which organises the distribution of food and clothing to the refugees.

While she was there, Liz became aware that there is a massive issue with rubbish collection and recycling. So, a team organised by the Calais Migrant Solidarity Facebook group is now travelling from the UK to instigate a system to enable the residents of the camp to manage the rubbish, and the Festival has donated bin bags to assist with this effort.

Glastonbury Festival will take place on the last weekend in June, that's from Wednesday 22nd to Sunday 26th June 2016. with tickets expected on sale in October.

Remember if you fail to get tickets, which are likely to go on sale in October that cancellations will be made available for resale at face value via the Festival’s authorised ticket agency, See Tickets..

Anyone aged 13 or over (when the Festival starts) who wishes to buy a ticket must be registered. Registration requires providing basic contact details and uploading a passport-standard photo. Once the photo has been approved, registers are sent a unique registration number that will need to be quoted to book a ticket.

To register click here.

Registration does not reserve or guarantee you a ticket in the resale, but if you don't register you will not be able to buy a weekend ticket for Glastonbury Festival 2016.

Each ticket sold will feature a photograph of the person in whose name it is registered and will be non-transferable. An existing registration can be checked here.

As usual eFestivals will bring you the very best-sourced rumours, allowing festival-goers to see who is playing long before the bands are formally announced - keep your eyes on the Glastonbury 2016 rumours, updated as we receive information.

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Organisers have also reminded those wanting tickets that See Tickets is the only ticket agency permitted to sell tickets for Glastonbury Festival. No other site or agency will be allocated tickets. Any other company or individual claiming to sell Glastonbury Festival tickets is bogus.

There's also a warning on Hospitality Packages which are not permitted to be booked through third parties or agencies, or on a ticket only basis. Over the years there have been problems with off-site providers not supplying the services advertised, therefore packages offered by off-site providers are bought at the purchasers’ risk, and against the advice of Glastonbury Festival. Glastonbury Festival does not supply tickets to any “concierge services” and accepts no responsibility for losses incurred by those who risk booking with unauthorised sellers.

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