Glastonbury's support for charities and good causes reaches £4.2m in 2025
12th December 2025
Supporting causes close to our heart has always been intrinsic to Glastonbury. And thanks to your support for the Festival, we’re thrilled to have been able to provide funding this year to a host of charitable organisations working with those facing challenges across the world.
By the end of 2025, we’ll have made payments of over £4.2m to more than 300 organisations spanning a huge range of causes.
We continued to support our three incredible Joint Charity partners this year – Oxfam, WaterAid and Greenpeace – with more than £2m in donations and payments made in exchange for volunteering.
We also offered renewed support to humanitarian organisations working in unprecedented areas of conflict and crisis, including charities working on a range of health initiatives such as child.org and Plan International’s Sudan emergency appeal.
We also supported Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF UK) with a donation of £100,000, specifically for their efforts across Sudan and to support their surgical hospital in Amman, which treats patients from across the Middle East.
In addition to the £4.2m of payments we have made to our supported causes this year, we’d also like to thank everyone who contributed to our Crowdfunder Prize Draw for the first 25 pairs of tickets for Glastonbury 2027, which raised a further £929,480 for MSF’s vital work providing medical care to people affected by the conflicts in Gaza and Sudan.
Closer to home, we are delighted to have made donations to over 40 local causes. These included local primary school enrichment projects, food initiatives – such as Food Forest Project – and local biodiversity organisations including Somerset Wildlife Trust and Shepton Mallet Community woodland. We also funded Mendip Community Transport – who keep people connected to their local activities – and Somerset Community Foundation, who work across the county funding over 400 local charities each year.
Many of the Festival’s wider community and crew are Bristol-based and this year we donated to various projects in the city, including St Paul’s Carnival, Bristol Refugee Rights and Young Bristol who all support families, vulnerable and young people in the Bristol area with a range of initiatives. We worked with the Bristol & Weston Hospitals Charity to fund creative education for children receiving treatment in hospital, and also collaborated with them on the Festival’s 2025 tote bag design, created by the hospital’s patients.
Following our support for the NHS in Somerset in 2024, we are pleased to have been able to make significant donations to more hospital and healthcare causes this year including the British Heart Foundation, Teenage Cancer Trust and the Royal College of Nursing Foundation.
In acknowledgement of the ongoing climate crisis, we have made donations to 25 environmental projects in the UK and overseas. These diverse initiatives include local projects, such as Heal Rewilding, as well as national nature and wildlife conservation organisations. We have supported charities working with our rivers and seas (The Rivers Trust and Project Seagrass), and organisations focused on alleviating climate impact, such as Onboard:Earth and Client Earth.
We would also like to say a huge thank you to the incredible volunteers who donate their time to support over 200 charities while providing essential services to Glastonbury Festival such as stewarding and running our Property Lock Ups. We also continue our longstanding work with Festival Medical Services – a volunteer-run charity which supports health-related causes around the world – with their medical staff volunteering and running the Festival’s Medical Centre.
Please click here to read more about the charities and organisations Glastonbury Festival has supported in 2025.
Photo: Andrew Allcock