Glastonbury Festival has reported that it will have made payments of over £5.9m to charitable causes and campaigns by the end of 2024, up from £3.7m last year.
The overall 2024 sum includes £4.3m in the form of donations, including £2m to the NHS Somerset Charity and £126,000 to support hospitals in Bristol and nursing staff across the UK.
Meanwhile, another £1.6m was given as payments for services such as stewarding.
The music festival said it supported joint charity partners Oxfam, WaterAid and Greenpeace, as well as War Child, UNHCR and other projects and organisations in the UK and overseas.
Glastonbury Festival raised £639,000 through its emergency fundraiser crowdfunder appeal which it match-funded to total over £1.27m for the British Red Cross, Oxfam and War Child.
It donated to the Music Venue Trust, which supports access to music for emerging artists, grassroots music, audiences, and promoters.
The festival donated to Bristol-based charities the Bristol Children’s Charity, Youth Moves, Young Bristol and Black2Nature, with many of the event’s community and crew based in the city.
It donated towards the Somerset Carers’ network and local organisations like the Food Forest Project and the Somerset Wildlife Trust.
The festival also supported initiatives such as enrichment projects for local primary schools and vegetable growing for community food banks in its native Pilton and other nearby towns and villages.
“It is thanks to your support for the festival that these donations and charitable payments have been possible and together we have been able to help those facing challenges across the world,” organisers said.
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