Oxfam celebrates its fifteenth year at Glastonbury
Charity raises £2.5 million through the festival to fight poverty around the world
Oxfam is celebrating its fifteenth year at Glastonbury with ten tonnes of festival fashion, 1,800 stewards and a campaign to gauge the issues that really matter to festival-goers.
Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis said: “We’re delighted to be celebrating fifteen years of working with Oxfam at the festival. In that time, Oxfam has helped to change the lives of millions of people around the world, and everyone at Glastonbury is very proud to have been a part of that.”
Since 1993 Oxfam has raised £2.5 million and signed up the support of more than 300,000 people at Glastonbury to help its lifesaving work around the world. This has been done through campaigning, trading and stewarding at the festival.
Last year, Oxfam raised a record £57,000 in on-site sales across its four stalls and this year aims to do even better. For the first time at the festival Oxfam will sell vintage clothing and high street designer clothes from Prada to Paul Frank, as well as our usual range of festival fashion.
This will include:
1,000 pairs of wellies and 2,000 waterproof jackets in case those Glastonbury downpours arrive again;
200 wedding dresses, 200 morning suits and 200 dinner jackets;
5,000 fun hats and two tonnes of good quality fancy dress.
This is set to be a record year for Oxfam’s stewarding operation – 1,800 Oxfam stewards will be working on-site, more than at any previous festival. Stewarding is an enormously popular way of volunteering, attracting people of all ages. This year stewards aged from 18 through to an impressive 74 years old are helping to ensure the smooth running of the festival, each working three eight-hour shifts in return for a free ticket and a private camping area.
