Glastonbury Festival reported on 12 December 2025 that it would end the year having paid out more than £4.2m to over 300 charities and good causes. The figure covers straight donations and payments made in exchange for volunteering, and the festival put the credit on its audience.
The bulk of it went to the three joint charity partners the festival has worked with for years. Oxfam, WaterAid and Greenpeace shared more than £2m between them, a mix of donations and money paid for the volunteer stewarding those charities supply.
Humanitarian work took the next slice. Glastonbury gave £100,000 to Medecins Sans Frontieres UK, earmarked for Sudan and for the organisation's surgical hospital in Amman, which treats patients from across the Middle East. It also backed child.org and Plan International's Sudan emergency appeal.
Separately, the festival's Crowdfunder prize draw for the first 25 pairs of 2027 tickets raised a further £929,480 for MSF's work in Gaza and Sudan. That sum sits outside the £4.2m figure.
More than 40 local causes were funded, among them primary school enrichment projects, the Food Forest Project, Somerset Wildlife Trust, Shepton Mallet Community Woodland, Mendip Community Transport and Somerset Community Foundation. In Bristol, where much of the festival's crew is based, money went to St Paul's Carnival, Bristol Refugee Rights and Young Bristol.
Health causes picked up donations to the British Heart Foundation, the Teenage Cancer Trust and the Royal College of Nursing Foundation, following the festival's support for the NHS in Somerset the previous year. Bristol and Weston Hospitals Charity funded creative education for children in hospital, and patients there designed the 2025 tote bag.
Twenty-five environmental projects were funded, from Heal Rewilding to the Rivers Trust, Project Seagrass, Onboard:Earth and ClientEarth. The festival also thanked the volunteers who staff over 200 charities on site, and Festival Medical Services, the volunteer-run charity that runs its medical centre. The 2027 ticket draw and the founder's 90th birthday interview cover the rest of the year at Worthy Farm, and the festivals we track sit in the festival tracker beside our rock hub.
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- Payments passed £4.2m to more than 300 organisations by the end of 2025
- Oxfam, WaterAid and Greenpeace shared more than £2m
- MSF UK received £100,000 for Sudan and its Amman surgical hospital
- A separate ticket prize draw raised £929,480 for MSF
- More than 40 local Somerset causes were funded
- Twenty-five environmental projects received donations
- Over 200 charities provide volunteers to the festival
- Bristol and Weston Hospitals Charity patients designed the 2025 tote bag
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