Glastonbury Festival Of Contemporary Performing Arts - Charities - WaterAid

Glastonbury WC News blog

Our team of top reporters will be bringing you the latest news from Glastonbury Festival 2009 through twitter in our microblog. You can get involved and comment too! Find out more on our website.

Love the farm, leave no trace

In 2009, we’ll be loving the farm again and leaving no trace. Please leave the toilets in a state that you’d like to find them in and don’t wee in the streams! Our dedicated volunteers spend hours every day litter picking and keeping the festival site clean. Make sure you do you bit too, use the recycling bins whenever you can.

WaterAid will be encouraging you all to Love your Loo!

Love and use our loos! WaterAid will as always be contributing to the festival toilet facilities with our VIP pit latrines up in Kings Meadow. For the ladies, the popular She Pees will offer the chance to nip off for a quick toilet break in between bands. All these facilities are manned by our trusty WaterAid volunteers, who will be happy to answer any questions you might have about WaterAid.

Are you a shee pee virgin? Curious about VIP latrines but not sure if they're for you? Find out about our lovely festivals loos.

Campaigns action: it's child's play

You would never buy a house that didn’t have a toilet would you? So why should 2.5 billion people be denied this basic right? We need to put pressure on governments to prioritise spending on water and sanitation so that people all over the world can live with the dignity we are all afforded.

So what can you do?
Tell Prime Minister Gordon Brown: It should be child’s play – water, sanitation and hygiene education are the building blocks for all development. Send him a postcard to demand that he talks toilets with world leaders throughout 2009.
Watch out for our passionate volunteers who will be handing out postcards at the festival and explaining more about the campaign and get your mates to send a postcard too!
To send a postcard online now, visit the WaterAid website.

Other ways to get involved

* Don’t forget to watch out for some of our brilliant films on the big screens at the festival. For memories of yesteryear, watch our Lucy Loo and Billy Bog videos below.
    * Visit the WaterAid stand for all our latest accessories – get yourself kitted out at our stand with our funky badges, t-shirts, rain macs, and sweat bands!
    * Join our Facebook page, follow us on Twitter and keep up with the latest WaterAid Glasto news by following Lucy Loo's blog during the festival.

Past festival highlights

For more great WaterAid at Glastonbury videos, visit the WaterAid website.

The donations received at the Glastonbury Festival are vitally important in helping prevent thousands of deaths from water-borne diseases in the countries WaterAid works in. A safe, clean water supply close to home and good sanitation brings huge benefits. In addition to ensuring people stay in good health, children no longer have to collect water for hours each day and have time to go to school, women have time to work and poor communities can begin to help themselves out of poverty.

For more information on what we do and the countries we work in please visit www.wateraid.org.

Registered charity no. 28870Registered charity numbers 288701 (England and Wales) and SC039479 (Scotland)