Festival funds boost charities worldwide

We all know that the Glastonbury Festival annually donates six figure sums to Oxfam, WaterAid and Greenpeace, but they are not alone! The organisers of the eco-friendly 80,000 capacity Bonnaroo Festival in the US is celebrating reaching $5 million in donations, with recipients including the American Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, Music Cares, Head Count and Rock The Earth. And the charitable organisation behind the 75,000 Roskilde festival in Denmark has donated $45,000 to farming projects in Sudan this year, part of total donations of $23 million dating back to 1972 when the festival began. Other recipients have included the Danish Red Cross and humanitarian aid projects through Danish Church Aid.