Isle of Wight Festival opens entries for local charity initiative

Isle of Wight Festival 2016

Thursday 9th to Sunday 12th June 2016
Seaclose Park, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 2DN, England MAP
£195 with camping

Daily capacity: 90,000

Unsigned acts wanting to perform at this summer's Isle of Wight Festival could get the opportunity as the event launches the Isle of Wight Festival Unsigned competition.

Local charities and causes on the island are invited to apply for tickets to this year's Isle of Wight Festival to use in their fundraising activities via a ballot system.

20 pairs of tickets worth £10,000 are available; with organisations able to apply up until 22^nd April with a brief explanation of what they intend to do with the tickets for the benefit of their charity. This local initiative continues the support the festival has given over its 15 years to not only charities, but also schools, sports teams and musicians on the island. Last year’s debut initiative saw 20 local charities each receive a pair of tickets for various fundraising activities including raffles, online auctions and competitions.

This news follows the announcement of The Isle of Wight Festival’s national charity partnership with Stand Up To Cancer.

Festival tickets have been donated to several national charities over the years to help raise much-needed funds, including Cancer Research UK, Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy, British Red Cross, Breast Cancer UK, the Ellen MacArthur Trust, Tickets for Troops, the Anthony Nolan Trust and Make A Wish.

For details of the local charity initiative see the festival's official website (here).

The Isle of Wight Festival line-up at Newport's Seaclose Park from Thursday 9th until Sunday 12th June 2016 is co-headlined by Stereophonics, and Faithless on Friday, while the Sunday headliner is Queen with Adam Lambert, while elsewhere there's 40 years of punk with Iggy Pop, Adam Ant, The Damned, Buzzcocks, The Cribs, The Kills, Ocean Colour Scene, Status Quo, Mike & The Mechanics, The Godfathers, and The Sex Pissed Dolls, plus Sigma, Jess Glynne, Pendulum (DJ set), Everything Everything, Blossoms, Sunset Sons, Feeder, Cast, Reef, Turin Brakes, Alabama 3, Joanne Shaw Taylor, The Second Sons, The Corrs, Busted, Twin Atlantic, Half Moon Run, Gabrielle Aplin, The High Kings, Reverend And The Makers, The Wonder Stuff, Sixx Am, Lissie, The Family Rain, and Bjorn Tagemose silent film experience Gutterdammerung.

The Saturday headliners are yet to be announced, though organisers say they have been booked. Expect many more names to be announced for the festival's multiple stages.

For the line-up details as available see the Isle of Wight Music Festival line-up page.

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Tickets including booking fees are priced at £202.80 with camping, a student ticket is priced at £186.90, and a teen (aged 13-17 years) ticket is priced at £155.20. Children aged 12 and under can attend free of charge, and a campervan ticket was priced at £120 (and have sold out). Tickets without camping will be available at a later date.

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