Oxfam

Oxfam provides over 1300 volunteer stewards for each event, helping raise and over £1million for Oxfam since 1993. Oxfam volunteers worked hard to make sure that everyone who came to Glastonbury Festival had a safe, secure and enjoyable time. Throughout the festival Oxfam stewards were responsible for inspection of tickets, checking accreditation, assisting with safety; directing traffic, helping festival-goers with problems or enquiries, and of course, creating a good atmosphere!

In addition to the organisational work we contribute to the festival we feature campaign marquees by the main stage and in the Green Field. We have celebrities and films on the Pyramid Stage and articles in the programme, conduct media promotion from the site and feature on the Glastonbury website. Glastonbury grants Oxfam its two stalls free in prominent positions to promote our campaign work and recruit potential campaigners and donors. The 2003 festival promoted Oxfam’s Make Trade Fair campaign collecting 30,000 signatures for the ‘Big Noise’ petition, which were handed in by Coldplay’s Chris Martin at the World Trade Summit in Cancun, Mexico. We also staged a Trade Justice Movement march and event with the Left Field team. Over the years tens of thousands of supporters have joined Oxfam at the festival supporting campaigns on aid, education, fair-trade, conflict and arms control.

This year Oxfam was also allocated space for the first ever ‘Oxfam Shop’ at the festival which proved to be very popular and raised nearly £10,000 for Oxfam. Money and support raised at Glastonbury Festival are vital for Oxfam’s work around the world. "The money raised at Glastonbury each year could help Oxfam to save the lives of nearly a quarter of a million people who have been made homeless by natural disasters" says Roger James of Oxfam. "Oxfam runs a wide-range of emergency operations in 30 countries and we never know where we will be called on to help next. Peoples' lives all over the world have been touched by the festival", £19 protects a child from malaria which kills over a million a year, £40 will buy a thousand bricks to build a school to help educate generations of children, £1000 buys a water tank to provide clean water for thousands of people, preventing massive loss of life". The long-term development work of the organisation is also helped by proceeds from the festival. The total raised in 2003 was enough to support Oxfam's entire programme in Haiti, which is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

"Glastonbury is special", says Roger "Oxfam and the festival have a long term relationship which has not only raised huge sums to alleviate poverty but has also campaigned for greater justice in the world. The 2003 festival benefited Oxfam to the tune of a cool £200,000. The future of the event is vital to many poor communities around the globe. Oxfam wishes the festival well"

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