Glastonbury Festival raised £5.9m for its charity partners in 2024, its organisers have announced.

This is an increase of £2.2m on the previous year when £3.7m was raised.

The money includes donations to the festival’s long standing charity partners Oxfam, Wateraid and Greenpeace.

This year also saw a £2m donation made to the NHS Somerset Charity, as well as £1.6m for payments to good causes through services such as stewarding at the event.

In addition, it donated £1326,000 to NHS hospitals in Bristol and nursing across the UK.

Donations to War Child and the UNHCR have also been made “to support people living in these unprecedented times of conflict”, said organisers of the event, which takes place near Pilton in Somerset.

It also ran a Emergency Fundraiser Crowdfunder appeal, which also supported people in conflict. Its prize draw for tickets to the event raised £639,000, which the Festival matched, “bringing the total to over £1.27m to fund the work of the British Red Cross, Oxfam and War Child, delivering humanitarian aid to those in need”.

Other good causes to receive donations include local charities Somerset Carers’, the Food Forest Project and Somerset Wildlife Trust.

“In Pilton and other nearby towns and villages, we continue to support initiatives such as enrichment projects for local primary schools and vegetable growing for community food banks," said organisers.



Last year’s fundraising tally included a donation to the Red Cross’s Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territory Appeal. It has also supported War Child’s work in the region to support children, as well as those impacted by conflict in Syria, Afghanistan, and Ukraine.

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