Glastonbury Festival Of Contemporary Performing Arts - Charities - Oxfam

Climate change costs lives.

Demand a fair deal here and now.

Join our show of hands and demand a fair deal!

Throughout the summer, Oxfam will be asking for a show of hands from thousands of music fans, all ready to get some ink in the name of poverty. Show true support for Humankind by getting our rock and roll FAIR DEAL knuckle tattoo, having your photo taken, and joining a global movement of people who want those in poverty to be treated fairly in the face of climate change. Find our more than willing tattoo artists (don’t worry, it’s quick and painless!) around the festival site and in waiting at the Oxfam Festival Shop. Once there, you’ll have the perfect opportunity to get creative and customise your own FAIR DEAL T-Shirt.  Our shop caters for every taste; from wedding dresses, ponchos, hats and wellies, to complete hippy, disco and punk rock outfits, and all at bargain prices. There’s a photo booth too, so you can capture your festival fashion moment and help make a difference at the same time.  So turn up, join in and have fun!

Following the success of 2009’s festival season, which saw 30,000 people at festivals paint themselves blue to join Oxfam’s climate change campaign, the charity is asking tens of thousands of festival-goers to call for a fair deal on climate change this year.

Campaigning
 Oxfam will be asking festival-goers at ten festivals this summer – including Glastonbury – to show their support by getting a ‘Fair Deal’ washable tattoo and joining a global movement of people who want those in poverty to be treated fairly in the face of climate change.

Since 1993 Oxfam has signed up the support of more than half a million people for their campaigns at festivals, tackling everything from global trade to climate change in the process.

* Since Oxfam started campaigning at festivals in 1993, over 333,000 signatures have been collected at Glastonbury alone.
* Every year, Oxfam offers around 300 volunteer campaigning opportunities at 8 festivals. Campaigners each work 3 x 8 hour shifts at the festival.

Festival shop
 Oxfam is the only high street retail brand with a festival shop. Over the past 16 years, Oxfam has raised £650,000 through its festival shops.

This year, shoppers will also have the chance to get their Fair Deal henna tattoo at the Oxfam Festival Shop. Once there, they’ll have the perfect opportunity to get creative and customise their own Fair Deal T-shirt.

* In 2009 the Oxfam festival shop made £130,000, more than double what it raised in the previous festival season, including a record-breaking high of £32,000 at Leeds festival.
* Popular items are the colourful blankets knitted by volunteers to raise awareness of Oxfam’s maternal mortality campaign. Waterproofs, wellies and warm jumpers sold very well, as did sparkley tops, glamorous frocks and fake furs.

 The Oxfam Festival Shop caters for every taste; from wedding dresses, ponchos, hats and suits, to complete hippy, disco and punk rock outfits. The shop is always well stocked with festival essentials to survive whatever the British weather decides to do, such as knitted blankets, sleeping bags and warm coats or raincoats and wellies or sun hats, sunglasses and sun dresses.

There’ll be a fancy dress photo booth too, so people can choose a wacky outfit from a fancy dress selection from across the decades, or simply capture their own festival fashion moment. With the wonders of technology in a festival field, festival-goers can upload their festival photo to their Facebook page there and then.

Stewarding
Oxfam will also be providing volunteer stewards for many of the major music festivals across the UK, including Glastonbury, Womad, Bestival, Latitude and Reading. Stewarding is the best way to get free access to a festival, while at the same time helping Oxfam to fight poverty.  

* Stewarding generated £1.1 million for Oxfam in 2009.
* From 1993 to 2009 Oxfam has raised £3.7 million through our presence at Glastonbury festival alone.
* In 2010, Oxfam will provide Glastonbury festival with 2,000 stewards. The festival organisers donate to Oxfam in return for proving stewards.