Glastonbury

The Glastonbury Festival Of Contemporary Performing Arts is totally unique and attracts over 100,000 people to enjoy music, theatre, circus, cabaret and an amazing shopping and eating extravaganza.

The festival prides itself on being a festival with a conscience, always keen to utilise local facilities and giving support to a wide range of local, national and international good causes. WaterAid is delighted to be one of the main good causes supported by the festival.

The partnership is ideal - an event such as Glastonbury requires one million gallons of water over a period of five days and hygiene and sanitation are major concerns when turning a dairy farm into a huge, bustling tented city.

With our African-style latrines and main-stage water give-away the festival offers WaterAid a unique opportunity to convey some of the issues of water and sanitation in the developing world. For WaterAid it is just as important that our status as one of the beneficiary charities also gains a significant amount of publicity outside of the festival - as well as raising vital funds.

Since 1994, WaterAid has received over £365,000 from the festival, plus even more from generous festival-goers who have visited our latrines and main-stage stand. At the 2005 festival alone WaterAid raised £27,500 from festival-goers, as well as collecting 11,500 signatures on its Make Poverty History petition.