Info
The sections below aim to give you all the information you need about Glastonbury Festival: from ticket information and travel advice to suggestions for what to bring. On site, during the Festival the Information Points are a veritable fount of knowledge and home of usefulness.
If you’re not sure where to begin, a lot of people seem to head for the sections on tickets, getting here and camping.
Glastonbury Festival 2025: 25th-29th June 2025
Following the November ticket sales, tickets for Glastonbury 2025 have now Sold Out. There will be a resale of any cancelled or returned tickets in spring 2025.
ONLY SEE TICKETS ARE AUTHORISED TO SELL TICKETS FOR GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL
No other site or agency will be allocated tickets. All tickets for the Festival are personalised to the individual named ticket holder and are strictly non-transferable. Security checks are carried out on arrival, and only the specified ticket holder will be admitted to the Festival.
PLEASE DO NOT RISK FALLING VICTIM TO UNAUTHORISED TOUTS.
As part of our ongoing efforts against ticket touting, anyone who hopes to attempt to book tickets for the Festival would need to be individually registered in advance of the ticket sale.
You can check your registration details here.
We will be taking our next fallow year in 2026, in order to give the farm, the village and the Festival team the traditional year off.
All the information you might need about buying tickets for Glastonbury Festival can be found below.
General Admission full weekend tickets (valid from Wednesday 25th June to Sunday 29th June) for Glastonbury 2025 cost £378.50 (including a £5 booking fee per ticket) plus postage and packing at £10.25 per order (£2.75 per order for coach tickets).
Ticket + coach travel options went on sale at 6pm (GMT) on Thursday 14th November 2024, with general admission tickets going on sale at 9am (GMT) on Sunday 17th November 2024.
Tickets for the Festival were sold exclusively at glastonbury.seetickets.com.
You could book up to 6 tickets per transaction by paying a deposit of £75 per person when tickets went on sale (plus the coach fare, if you are booking a ticket + coach travel option). The remaining balance will then be payable in the first week of April 2025 (from 09:00 BST Tuesday 1st April – 23:59 BST Monday 7th April) when it should be possible to add car parking passes and cancellation protection to your booking.
Everyone, aged 13 or over, who wishes to attend the Festival must be individually registered before they can try for a ticket in the ticket sales.
Refreshing the page, using multiple tabs or many devices can look like suspicious behaviour and can harm your chances of getting through by triggering anti-bot software; therefore you must stick to one tab/device per IP address and please do not refresh your page once you are in the queue.
Postage and packing (£10.25) is charged per order – rather than per ticket – when paying your remaining ticket balance.
WHAT’S INCLUDED WITH A GLASTONBURY TICKET?
Tickets to Glastonbury Festival include:
- Entry to the Festival with first come first served access to over 4,000 performances across more than 100 stages
- Five nights camping (with no early entry fees)
- Free programme
- Free mobile phone charging
- Free on-site newspaper
- Free mobile app
- Free firewood
- Kidzfield, where all entertainment, rides and activities are free of charge
- Support for Oxfam, Greenpeace, WaterAid and hundreds of other worthy causes (over £3m given annually in recent years)
- Funds to improve the Festival’s infrastructure and environmental impact
WHY YOU NEED TO REGISTER
To prevent touting, tickets for Glastonbury Festival are non-transferable. Each ticket features the photograph of the registered ticket holder with security checks carried out to ensure that only the person in the photograph is admitted to the Festival.
Whether you are booking a deposit for a Festival ticket or a ticket + coach travel option, every person (aged 13 or over) who intends to purchase a ticket must have their own valid registration number ahead of tickets going on sale.
If you plan to buy tickets for other people, they all need to be registered ahead of the ticket sale – and you will need their registration numbers and corresponding postcodes in order to purchase tickets on their behalf.
Resale of tickets is strictly prohibited and will result in the cancellation of your order.
HOW TO REGISTER
Online registration is free of charge and only takes a few minutes, you can check your registration here. To complete the registration process, you will need to provide basic contact details and to upload a passport-style photo.
Registration closed at 5pm (GMT) on Monday 11th November.
We recommend completing your registration well in advance of attempting to book tickets, as registration is temporarily suspended before and during the main ticket sale period. Please allow time for your photo to be reviewed, you may need to allow time to re-submit your registration if you need to. Once registration closes there will be no opportunity to submit/edit a registration until after the ticket sales.
If you are hoping to register more than one person on a single email address, the link can be used multiple times but you will need to wait 10 minutes between submitting each registration. If you are submitting a registration on behalf of another individual, you must ensure that you have that individual’s permission to provide their information to us.
Before beginning the registration process, please ensure you have a suitable photograph/photographs which are in jpeg format, of a suitable size (min 900 pixels wide x 1350 pixels tall), of portrait orientation and passport standard.
For more information about suitable photographs and how to edit or crop your registration photo, please click here.
Once you have submitted your details via your unique link, you will receive an automated email confirming receipt of your data. Your registration photograph will then be reviewed within 48 hours, in the working week, after which you will receive a follow up email either accepting or rejecting your photo.
If you have not received a submission confirmation email within 48 hours (Monday-Friday) of making an online registration, please check your junk/spam inboxes.
If your photograph is accepted, you will also receive confirmation of your registration number and registered postcode.
If your photograph is rejected you should receive an email notification of this, too.
If your registration is rejected or you do not receive a registration number within a further 48 hours, please submit a new registration.
If you are unable to register online, please send an SAE to: Glastonbury Registration, PO Box 4288, Shepton Mallet, BA4 9BB to receive a postal registration form. You would need a physical passport style photograph to submit a postal registration form. Postal registration forms will be confirmed within 15 working days of receipt, when registration is open. If you haven’t received a registration number within this period, please contact the Festival Office.
Your chance of buying tickets is not influenced in any way by the number of times you register, or the information you provide during registration. Registration does not reserve or guarantee you a ticket.
EXISTING REGISTRATIONS
As an organisation, we need to ensure that the data we hold about you is relevant, accurate, kept up to date, and stored for no longer than is necessary. This means from time to time, we need to review the data we hold for you.
Any registrations submitted prior to 2020 required reviewing and confirming in Autumn 2023. If you registered prior to 2020 and intend to try and buy tickets in a future ticket sale, please check to see if you have any valid registrations here or submit a fresh registration here.
Please note, it is not possible to change your registered photo if you have a current booking linked to your registration details, so please make sure you have an up to date photograph before attempting to book tickets.
If you no longer have access to the email account which you originally used to register, you will need to submit a new registration. If in any doubt, please re-register well in advance of when you intend to book tickets. Your chance of buying tickets is not influenced in any way by the number of times you register, or the information you provide during registration. Registration does not reserve or guarantee you a ticket.
Registrations without a ticket booking linked to them can be updated and these changes would be reflected in future ticket sales. You can update some of your registered details by looking up your registration here using the registered email address.
If you are successful in a ticket sale your registration will become locked and any attempted update would not be reflected on the currently ticket booking. If you need to update your delivery address, you will need to amend this directly with See Tickets.
Tickets are sold exclusively at glastonbury.seetickets.com.
You may book up to 6 ticket per transaction in the Autumn by paying a deposit for each person.
In order to attempt to make a booking, you will need the registration number and registered postcode for each person you are trying to book a ticket for. You will also need a valid debit or credit card with sufficient funds to cover your full transaction, and all the security information for that card. If your card issuer requires multi-factor authentication, please ensure you have access to your banks chosen authentication method.
Please be careful to enter all of your details accurately as any details which don’t match will cause your transaction attempt to fail.
Please note, registration does not guarantee you a ticket (and in recent years, demand for tickets has far outstripped supply).
When the ticket sale begins (at 6pm or 9am respectively) everyone who is already on the glastonbury.seetickets.com page will randomly be assigned a place in a queue to access the booking process. Anyone who logs on once the sale has started will automatically be added to the back of the queue, so it’s important to make sure you are online ready at least a few minutes before the sale opens. Once you are in the queue, a progress bar will indicate how close you are to reaching the booking page. Please do not refresh this page or use multiple devices or tabs or you may lose your place in the queue.
When you reach the front of the queue, you will be asked to enter the registration number and registered postcode for the lead booker and up to 5 other people for whom you are attempting to book tickets. You will have 10 minutes to complete this page before your session expires, however tickets are not allocated at this point.
Once all of your information is correct, click confirm to enter the payment page, where you will need to check/amend your billing address, confirm your payment information, accept the terms and conditions, and complete check out within the allocated time.
Please do not attempt to minimise the tab or open new tabs. If you move away from the tab you are on your session may expire. Any information entered after the timer expires will result in a failed transaction.
If the amount of traffic on the website is particularly high, you may see a reduced version of the See Tickets booking site, with a minimal version of the holding page. This does not mean the site has crashed! (Quite the opposite in fact – this means the site is serving the maximum number of people at the same time.)
One you reach the first page of the booking site, you will be asked to enter the registration number and registered postcode for the lead booker and up to 5 other individuals.
When you proceed, the details you have provided will be displayed on the next page.
Please check that these are the people you expect to be booking tickets for as these cannot be changed once you proceed with your booking.
If you are booking a ticket + coach travel option you will be asked to choose the departure town (and time for towns with multiple departures). It is only possible to book tickets from one departure town in a single transaction. If the option you have selected is not available, please choose a different town or day that is convenient for you. Travel on the coach you have selected is mandatory in order to receive your Festival ticket, so please only book on routes that are feasible for you.
Once all your information is correct, please proceed to the payment page.
Once you reach the payment page you will have 5 minutes to submit your payment information, so please take your time to enter this information accurately. The time remaining will be shown on the right-hand side of the screen.
UK and European banks have added an additional layer of protection for online transactions, which may mean you are asked to provide additional information in order to complete your transaction. Please see PAYMENT PROCESSING for more information about two-factor authentication.
A purchase is only confirmed when payment has been successfully processed, so we would encourage you to enter your payment details swiftly (but accurately).
Please note, your registration will be locked for up to 10 minutes if your details are entered incorrectly, an attempt to book is already held against your registration number, or your 5 minutes on the booking page ends. If the transaction fails and tickets are still available, your registration number will be released to give you the chance to try again.
If the page ‘hangs’ and you can’t get any further, try pressing back once and then continue your booking from that point.
If that doesn’t help, close your browser and start again. Please do not continue to refresh the page more than 5 minutes after entering your details as your access to the page will have expired. You will need to close the browser and start again to gain fresh access to the booking page.
Whilst we understand that everyone wants to have the best possible chance of booking a ticket, running multiple devices or tabs simultaneously to attempt to access the website may lead to your IP address being blocked, preventing you from buying a ticket. The same applies to sharing cookies and QueueIDs. Refreshing the page, using multiple tabs or many devices can look like suspicious behaviour and can harm your chances of getting through by triggering anti-bot software; therefore you must stick to one tab/device per IP address and please do not refresh your page once you are in the queue.
International tickets can only be purchased by Visa credit card or Mastercard credit card.
See Tickets is the only company permitted to sell tickets for Glastonbury Festival. No other site or agency will be allocated tickets.
SEE TICKETS COACH + TICKET OPTIONS
As part of the Festival’s initiative to encourage Festival goers to reduce audience transport emissions, deposits for ticket + coach travel options go on sale at 6pm GMT on Thursday 14th November 2024, ahead of the general release of tickets.
A list of towns and cities covered by the ticket + coach travel options, and the cost of travel from each departure point can be seen below:
To book in the ticket + coach travel sale, you will need the registration number and registered postcode for each person (up to 6 per transaction) for whom you are hoping to book. You will be asked to choose a Coach departure town and Coach departure day (Wednesday or Thursday). Please note you must have chosen one option for your group as a whole – you cannot select multiple options within one transaction.
Ticket balances for ticket + coach travel bookings are due in the balance payment window, the first week of April 2025.
Please be aware that where travel timings are not stated at the time of booking, full travel timing will be confirmed no later than 30 days before departure. You must therefore be prepared to travel at any time of day (AM/PM) on the departure day you select.
You must not book in the ticket + coach travel sale unless you are certain you will be able to travel on the coach you have selected.
- Tickets with coach travel cannot be changed to general admission tickets.
- Travel on your chosen coach is mandatory in order to receive your Festival ticket.
- Festival tickets cannot be collected from the Festival site.
If you are travelling with children aged 12 and under (including babes in arms), who do not require an entry ticket for the Festival, you will need to book these additional coach seats whilst making your ticket + coach travel booking.
If the additional seats required are not available when booking, please contact coachtravel@seetickets.com upon completing your booking in order to enquire about purchasing additional coach seats (NB: standard fares apply).
Please be aware any additional coach tickets are strictly subject to availability so if you did not select this with your initial booking, ensure you contact the Coach Team as soon as possible in order to avoid disappointment.
If you intend on applying for a PA ticket through the Festival’s Access Team, you will also need to book these additional coach seats whilst making your ticket + coach travel booking. If the additional seats required are not available when booking, please contact accessibility@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk to request the Access application form. You must make sure it is clear on your application that you require an additional coach seat for your PA (NB: standard fares apply).
Before booking in the ticket + coach travel sale please consider the following:
- Do you have a disability or existing health condition that could make travelling by coach an unsuitable or difficult option for you?
- Are you able to sit on a coach for the required length of time without having the option of taking regular breaks when you want to.
- All the coaches will be full, please consider whether you will be comfortable being on a busy coach in close proximity to other passengers.
- Coaches will have at least one toilet on board, however, please note these will not be wheelchair accessible and will not be regularly cleaned during the coach journey.
- If you intend on applying for a PA ticket and your application is successful, this person must travel with you on your designated coach. Please book this additional seat when making your ticket + coach travel booking.
- If you buy a ticket with coach travel you cannot then purchase a campervan ticket in either the accessible campsite or general campervan fields.
- Tickets with coach travel cannot be changed to general admission tickets. If you buy a ticket with coach travel you must travel on your designated coach.
Your travel voucher will be sent as an E-ticket to the email address associated with your registration number. E-tickets tend to be sent out in mid-May.
Your Festival ticket(s) will be distributed once the coach has departed from the pick-up point. Please ensure you have Photo ID available in order to received your entry ticket.
CAR PARK TICKETS
Car park passes (£55 plus £2.75 postage and packaging fee where purchased separately) for Glastonbury Festival are available when paying the remaining ticket balance. You will not be able to book car park passes until you pay the balance for at least one of the tickets on your booking.
Car park passes are only available to general admission ticket holders. It is not possible to purchase a car park pass when booking for paying the balance for a ticket + coach travel booking. Car park passes will be sent out with your Festival tickets (unless booked separately).
Worthy View and Sticklinch require their own specific car parking pass. Limited car parking is available a short walk from the accommodation. Car park passes would be available to purchase when making the booking and in recent years have sold out ahead of the Festival taking place. It would not be possible to park in the Worthy View or Sticklinch car park with a general admission car parking pass.
If you require accessible / Blue Badge parking, you must apply for this by completing the Festivals Access Application. Please contact accessibility@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk to request the Access application form.
As with your Festival tickets, car park passes are non-transferable, and attempts to re-sell them may result in their cancellation. Refunds for unrequired car park passes are available prior to the ticket refund deadline (23:59 May 9th 2025).
CAMPERVAN/CARAVAN TICKETS
Campervan tickets for 2025 will cost £200 for a standard pitch or £300 for a large pitch. Information on accommodation sales for the 2025 Festival will be announced a little later in the Autumn.
Campervan tickets are only available to general admission ticket holders. It is not possible to purchase a car park or campervan ticket when booking or paying the balance for a ticket + coach travel booking.
Only campervans or caravans with fitted sleeping, and washing or cooking facilities will be allowed into the campervan fields. Please refer to the CAMPERVAN INFORMATION SECTION for more information about which types of vehicles can use these fields.
Demand for campervan tickets is usually very high, so we would recommend booking one as soon as they are released. As with your Festival tickets, campervan tickets are non-transferable and will be printed with the name and address of the booker. Attempts to re-sell them may result in their cancellation. If you book a campervan ticket and later change your mind, refunds are available prior to the ticket refund deadline; subject to an administration fee.
There will be a limited number of campervan/caravan spaces available in the accessible campsite. Tickets for these can be bought via the Festival’s Accessibility team.
Campervan tickets will be sent out with your Festival tickets (unless booked after your balance payment).
Whilst every effort will be made to accommodate campervans in your preferred site, the Festival reserves the right to provide alternative facilities in the event of adverse conditions.
TIPIS
A limited number of Tipis that can each accommodate up to 6 adults are made available for hire in the Festival’s Tipi village on the southern slopes of the Festival site. Tipis cost £1795 to hire (payable in full at the time of booking).
Please note that Tipis do not include Festival tickets, and everyone wishing to stay in a Tipi must have a valid Festival ticket.
Information on accommodation sales for the 2025 Festival will be announced later in the Autumn.
Tipis come complete with groundsheet and rain-catcher; however they are intended to be an elemental experience, without the trappings of ‘luxury’ campsites. You will need to bring your own beds and bedding, and expect to be using basic camping facilities.
Further information can be found here. If you book a Tipi and later change your mind, refunds are available prior to the ticket refund deadline (23:59 May 9th 2025); subject to an administration fee of £25.
There are no separate weekend tickets for customers with access requirements. Anyone wanting to attend the Festival must register and book tickets in the usual manner, as described above.
Once you have secured your Festival ticket please contact the Festival’s Access Team to request the link for the online Access Application Form which will be available in December 2024.
Please note access to these facilities can reach capacity so we do recommend customers complete the Access Application form and return this to us as early as they can.
Before booking in the ticket + coach travel sale please consider the following;
- Tickets with coach travel cannot be changed to general admission tickets. If you buy a ticket with coach travel you must travel on your designated coach.
- Do you have a disability or existing health condition that could make travelling by coach an unsuitable or difficult option for you.
- Are you able to sit on a coach for the required length of time without having the option of taking regular breaks when you want to.
- All the coaches will be full, please consider whether you will be comfortable being on a busy coach in close proximity to other passengers.
- Coaches will have at least one toilet on board, however, please note these will not be wheelchair accessible and will not be regularly cleaned during the coach journey.
- If you intend on applying for a PA ticket and your application is successful, this person must travel with you on your designated coach. Please book this additional seat when making your ticket + coach travel booking.
- If you buy a ticket with coach travel you cannot then purchase a campervan ticket in either the accessible campsite or general campervan fields.
For further information please refer to the Festival’s Access Information page.
Everyone aged 13 or over on Wednesday 25th June 2025 (when the Festival gates open) who plans to come to the Festival, must have booked a ticket to attend the Festival.
Children aged 12 and under do not require tickets and do not need to register.
You may collect a child wristband for children attending with you from the KidzField or the various Information Points once you have entered the Festival site.
Anyone under the age of 16 must be accompanied to the Festival by a responsible adult (aged 18 or over, who would usually be the parent, carer, legal guardian or other adult entrusted with the care of that child) who accepts full responsibility and full supervision, at all times, for all under 16s attending under their supervision.
Anyone under the age of 16 is not permitted to enter, leave or re-enter the Festival site unaccompanied by their responsible adult. Parental Permission for Exit/Re-entry Wristbands can be obtained from public Festival entrances and on-site Info points, where the responsible adult and teenager must both be present for collection.
When booking a ticket for a child aged 13, 14 or 15, you must select the ‘TEEN’ ticket option, to confirm that they will be accompanied to the Festival by a responsible ticket holding adult, who assumes responsibility for them. Please confirm that their parent, carer or legal guardian has consented for their data to be processed. TEEN ticket holders will not gain admittance to the Festival unaccompanied.
When booking tickets for children aged 13, 14 or 15, and/or bringing children aged 12 or under with you to the Festival, you will be required to confirm you are aged 18 or over and accept full responsibility for all under 16s in your group.
Those who are aged 16 or 17 are allowed to attend the Festival unaccompanied, but it is strongly advised that this decision is made with the consent of a parent or legal guardian.
Anyone attending the Festival on an adult ticket, who appears to be under 16 years of age, is advised to bring ID to verify their age.
Please note that some areas of the site, particularly front-of-stage barriers and late-night areas are unsuitable for children. This may include adult content and crowds. Pushchairs and trolleys which may impact on crowd movement may not be permitted in these areas. Some late night and screening facilities may have age restrictions for entry. Those wishing to attend should bring suitable ID as proof of age, and parents and responsible adults should ensure that all restrictions are adhered to. For films classified as 18, a ‘Challenge 21’ policy will apply.
It is expected that you will received your tickets at least 7 days before the Festival starts. If your ticket has not arrived 7 days before the Festival, please contact the team at See Tickets via their Customer Service page.
Travel vouchers for ticket + coach travel vouchers are expected to be dispatched from mid-May and will be sent as an e-ticket. The physical Festival ticket would then be distributed on your allocated coach on the journey to the Festival site.
General admission tickets for the Festival are physical tickets. Information about the dispatch of your tickets will be available through See Tickets who will email you with your tracking reference. You can track your ticket order via www.royalmail.com by entering your tracking reference number.
You can also obtain your tracking reference via See Tickets’ order tracker. To access the order tracker you will need your email address linked to your balance payment or full price ticket order. Please note, only the lead booker can access this information.
If you are not at home when your tickets arrive, a card should be left giving you instructions on how to arrange re-delivery (including weekend delivery options) or pick them up from your local collection office.
Please note – if you have changed address since booking your tickets you will need to notify See Tickets of your change of address. Changes of address on your registration will not automatically update your delivery address.
If you ordered more than one ticket, your tickets will be dispatched to the address you provided for the first name on your booking. If you paid your balances separately, you will receive your own ticket.
UK TICKETS will be sent out by Royal Mail in late-May – June. Tickets will be sent to the address specified when booking. A signature will be required at the point of delivery.
INTERNATIONAL TICKETS FOR THOSE IN THE EU will be sent out by registered international post, unless specified otherwise. You can track your international ticket order via www.royalmail.com by entering your tracking number which is available via See Tickets’ order tracker. To access the order tracker you will require the email address linked to your booking. If it is likely you will set off for the Festival more than 28 days before the Festival commences, please contact See Ticket via their customer service portal to request ‘Box Office Collection’.
INTERNATIONAL TICKET FOR THOSE OUTSIDE OF THE EU, tickets will be for box office collection unless specified otherwise.
Any ticket deposits for which the balance has not been paid by the end of the balance payment window, will automatically be refunded to the card on which they were booked; with a £25 administration charge retained and all tickets for which the balance has not been paid will be cancelled.
Ultimately it is your responsibility to ensure your ticket balance is paid on time. Tickets for Glastonbury Festival are personalised with a photo of the ticket holder and cannot be transferred to another recipient.
If you are unable to come to the Festival, and require a refund for your ticket, please contact See Tickets via their Customer Service page confirming details before the refund deadline, 23:59 BST on Friday 9th May 2025, to log your request for a refund.
A £25 administration charge will be retained from all refunded tickets.
An additional £15 administration charge will be retained from any cancelled ticket + coach travel bookings. (£25 ticket cancellation fee + £15 coach cancellation fee.)
It is not possible to cancel part of the booking – if you are unable to travel on your allotted coach you will need to cancel your ticket booking.
Refund Protection is available to book when paying your ticket balance, so that a refund of the value of your Ticket can be provided to you if you cannot attend the Festival due to the circumstances set out in the Terms and Conditions. Refund Protection is subject to an additional charge per person when paying the balance for your tickets.
Refund Protection provides cover for a range of specified unforeseen circumstances that may prevent you from being able to attend the Festival. Alternatively, you may wish to check whether your ticket is covered elsewhere.
Tickets are non-refundable after the deadline. However, if you have purchased the Refund Protection for your ticket and your reason for not being able to attend is included, a refund application can be made through the Refund Protection scheme.
Please note that Refund Protection will not cover the loss of your ticket, or any circumstances which would be considered foreseeable. Unfortunately, if tickets are delivered to ticket holders, and subsequently lost, destroyed or misplaced, we cannot replace them.
LOCAL & SUNDAY TICKETS
FULL WEEKEND AND SUNDAY TICKETS FOR LOCAL RESIDENTS ON SALE FROM 9AM SUNDAY 24TH NOVEMBER
9AM – FULL WEEKEND TICKETS FOR INNER ZONE ONLY
10AM – FULL WEEKEND TICKETS FOR INNER & OUTER ZONES
11AM – SUNDAY TICKETS FOR MENDIP AND CENTRAL SOMERSET RESIDENTS
FULL WEEKEND TICKETS FOR LOCAL RESIDENTS
Michael Eavis has once again held back a number of full weekend tickets for local people as a second chance for those residents who were unsuccessful in the coach and general admission ticket sales (14th and 17th November 2024 respectively) to book tickets.
The local ticket sale will take place from 9am, Sunday 24th November, 2024, online at glastonbury.seetickets.com.
The local ticket sale allows local residents to take advantage of the Festival’s ticket deposit scheme, meaning only a deposit of £75 per ticket will be payable in the local ticket sale, with the balance payable 1st-7th April.
You may purchase up to 4 tickets per transaction provided all those for whom you are booking are full time, permanent residents registered within the local catchment area at the time you make the deposit and balance payments. Please note that the Festival may request proof of address (for example identification such as a valid driver’s license or a recent (past 30 days) council tax bill or polling card) for all individuals you are booking tickets for in order to verify eligibility. If you are unable to provide satisfactory evidence that you and the individuals in your party are permanent residents within the local ticket catchment, then your ticket booking may be cancelled.
When booking, you will need to quote the registration number and registered postcode of each person, and the name they registered under. Please have your debit / credit card number (with security number from the back of your card) available when booking, and the detail of the ticket delivery address, including the postcode.
Children aged 12 and under, when accompanied by a ticket holding adult are admitted free and do not need a ticket.
In order to make sure that those most likely to be affected by the Festival have the best chance to secure tickets, for the 2025 Festival additional local tickets will be made available to residents within the inner catchment zone, before opening the sale to the outer catchment zone.
Permanent full time residents living and registered in the following towns and villages within the inner zone are eligible to book tickets from 9am:
Doulting, East Pennard, Glastonbury, North Wootton, Pilton, Pylle, Shepton Mallet, West Bradley, West Pennard.
Permanent full time residents living and registered in the following towns and villages within the outer zone are eligible to book tickets from 10am:
Alford, Allhampton, Ansford, Ashcott, Ashwick, Baltonsborough, Barton St David, Binegar, Butleigh, Castle Cary, Coleford, Cranmore, Dinder, Ditcheat, Emborough, Evercreech, Holcombe, Leigh-upon-Mendip, Lovington, Lydford, Oakhill, Stoke St Michael, Street, Walton, Wells, plus residents of the inner zone.
A map of the eligible areas can be found below. The local ticket catchment boundary lines are arbitrated at the discretion of the Festival. Please note that the Festival may request proof of address (for example identification such as a valid driver’s license or a recent (past 30 days) council tax bill or polling card) for all individuals you are booking tickets for in order to verify eligibility. If you are unable to provide satisfactory evidence that you and the individuals in your party are permanent residents within the eligible catchment area, then your ticket booking may be cancelled.The Festival’s decision on eligibility is final, and any tickets found to be purchased using false information will be cancelled.
In order to ensure tickets in the local sale only go to genuine full time, permanent local residents, registration will be suspended in advance and throughout the ticket sale period. If you are not already registered within the catchment, you will not be able to book tickets in this sale. Registration will reopen later in the Autumn.
If you live in a ‘new build’ property (less than 3 years old) within the eligible area, please contact us to verify eligibility.
Any tickets for which the balance is not paid will be refunded £50 of their deposit, and a £25 admin fee per ticket will be retained.
All usual Festival ticket terms and conditions apply. For more information head to our Ticket Info Section.
Tickets for Glastonbury Festival are strictly non-transferable.
SUNDAY TICKETS
Sunday tickets for Glastonbury Festival are available exclusively to Mendip & Central Somerset residents. This wider catchment area includes residents of towns such as Bruton, Frome & Radstock, which fall outside the local full weekend ticket catchment, but who may still experience some inconvenience during the Festival period.
This is a great opportunity for those who are unable to go to the whole event or who have been unsuccessful in purchasing full weekend tickets to attend the Festival for the day, on Sunday 29th June 2025.
Sunday tickets for local residents will be available from 11am, Sunday 24th November 2024 from glastonbury.seetickets.com. You may purchase up to 6 tickets per transaction provided all those for whom you are booking are full time, permanent residents registered within the Mendip & Central Somerset area at the time you make the booking. Please note that the Festival may request proof of address (for example identification such as a driver’s license or a recent (past 30 days) council tax bill or polling card) for all individuals you are booking tickets for in order to verify eligibility. If you are unable to provide satisfactory evidence that you and the individuals in your party are permanent residents within the Mendip and Central Somerset catchment area, then your ticket booking may be cancelled.
A condition for the sale of these tickets is that travel to the Festival site is by bus only.
The ticket price (£135) includes travel by bus to and from the site from the following local towns: Castle Cary, Frome, Radstock, Glastonbury, Midsomer Norton, Shepton Mallet, Street and Wells.
Morning pick-ups from each location are at 09:00 and 11:00, with several return buses to each location leaving the Festival, at 22:00 and 00:30. All members of your booking must travel from and return to the same location at the same time.
Sunday tickets are strictly non-transferable. As such, each ticket will feature the photograph of the registered ticket holder with security checks carried out to ensure that only the person in the photograph is admitted to the Festival.
Every person (aged 13 or over) who intends to purchase a Sunday ticket must have their own valid registration number.
Children aged 6-12 are admitted free, but require a pre-booked bus ticket, which is charged at £25, however they do not need to register in order to book a bus ticket. Children under 6 travel free, and do not require any tickets.
Please have your debit / credit card number (with security number from back of card) available when booking, and the detail of the ticket delivery address, including the postcode.
Any cancellations up to 9th May 2025 will incur a £25 per ticket admin fee (exc. child bus seats). Sunday tickets are non-refundable after the 9th May 2025 cancellation deadline. You may wish to purchase the optional TicketPlan Booking Refund Protection so that a refund of the value of your Sunday Ticket can be provided to you if you cannot attend the Festival due to the circumstances set out in the Terms and Conditions. Refund Protection is subject to an additional charge of £3.79 per ticket. Click here to download a PDF of the TicketPlan Booking Refund Protection Summary for Sunday tickets.
Refund protection provides cover for a range of specified unforeseen circumstances that may prevent you being able to attend the Festival. Alternatively, you may wish to check whether your ticket is covered elsewhere.
Full Terms and Conditions of Sunday Tickets can be found here.
VILLAGE TICKETS
Residents who are eligible for Village tickets will be contacted in the New Year.
A limited number of hospitality tickets will be available for the media and those working in the music industry to purchase directly from the Festival, on an application basis. Applications to purchase hospitality tickets will open in early Spring 2025. As with general admission tickets, hospitality tickets are subject to the Festival’s Photography Policy and Broadcaster, Internet and Filming Policy. For more information please contact the hospitality team.
PLEASE NOTE THERE ARE NO “VIP” OR “BACKSTAGE” TICKETS AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE FOR GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL
Whilst a handful of the Festival’s neighbours do offer hospitality tickets strictly as part of the accommodation available on their property, these tickets are not permitted to be booked through third parties or agencies, or on a ticket only basis.
PLEASE DO NOT RISK FALLING TO UNAUTHORISED TOUTS
We take every effort to ensure that touts do not have any access to tickets for the Festival by preventing multiple purchases, requiring all potential ticket buyers to register their details in advance of booking tickets, and printing the name, address and photo of each ticket holder on their ticket to prevent tickets being used by anyone but the intended ticket holder.
Unfortunately, there are still unscrupulous individuals willing to try to take advantage of the demand for tickets, we have therefore compiled this guide to help you identify legitimate tickets, and we would urge anyone searching for tickets to read this guide, and do their research so as not to risk falling victim to touts.
BUYING GENERAL ADMISSION WEEKEND AND SUNDAY TICKETS
The simplest way to avoid falling victim to touts is to always buy tickets from our only authorised ticket seller: See Tickets.
See Tickets is the only ticket agency that is authorised to sell general admission full weekend and Sunday tickets for Glastonbury Festival. No other site or agency will be allocated tickets.
As part of our ongoing efforts against ticket touting, anyone who hopes to attempt to book tickets for the Festival would need to be individually registered in advance of the ticket sales.
Tickets for the Festival are physical tickets and each ticket is personalised to the individual named ticket holder. Tickets are strictly non-transferable.
All tickets are checked by security staff on entry to the event. Only the specified ticket holder will be admitted to the Festival.
Tickets remain the property of the Festival. Any forged or tampered tickets will be confiscated from you, you will not be permitted to the event and you may face questioning from the police.
A ticket being offered for sale by any other individual or on any other site (including on social media or resale sites) is not likely to be legitimate, is offered in breach of the event’s terms and conditions and entry and as such will not permit entry to the Festival. The terms and conditions of booking Festival tickets are that they are always non-transferable and tickets bought from other sources will be refused admission.
To be as safe as you can and to avoid obtaining an illegitimate ticket, follow these simple guidelines:
- Do not buy from an unofficial ticket agent. The only authorised ticket agent for Glastonbury Festival is See Tickets. Do not buy from internet auction sites or social media.
- Do not buy from another individual or tout, either in advance or outside the event.
If you ignore these pointers you are likely to pay a lot of money for something worthless as the ticket will be invalid (and may not exist at all).
Glastonbury Festival will be unable to assist you if you have bought from an unauthorised source.
ETICKETS
We do not issue ‘Print at home’ or eTickets for entry to Glastonbury Festival. Any tickets that are offered for sale fitting that description are a scam. (Please note eTickets may be issued for coach travel or accommodation, however these alone will not grant entry to the Festival itself).
IF YOU ARE NO LONGER ABLE TO ATTEND
General Admission tickets via See Tickets are refundable until May 9th, subject to the relevant admin fee. TicketPlan Refund Protection is also available when paying the remaining balance, and your situation may be covered beyond the May 9th deadline.
If you purchased a ticket and either no longer wish to attend the Festival or are no longer able to attend the Festival, please don’t be tempted to try and sell your ticket – you may still be able to receive a refund via the proper channels!
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
You can find our terms and conditions here.
Authorised agents will always make available the ticket Terms and Conditions applicable to the sale and make the transaction as transparent as possible. This protects both the buyer and the agent and offers the customer legal protection. You will not be afforded the same protection if you buy from an unauthorised seller.
AUCTION / RESALE SITES
We do not supply any tickets to auction or resale sites. Any cancelled tickets are resold at face value via official ticket resales exclusively on Seetickets.com.
HOSPITALITY TICKETS
A limited number of hospitality tickets are available for the media and those working in the music industry and related media to purchase, on an application basis, directly from the Festival. The Festival is the only authorised seller for stand alone hospitality tickets. We do not permit any other vendor or agency to sell hospitality tickets on their own.
A handful of the Festival’s neighbours do also offer hospitality tickets strictly as part of the accommodation available on their property. These tickets are not permitted to be booked through third parties or agencies, or on a ticket only basis. If you have any concerns about the validity of a neighbouring hospitality provider, please contact us.
VIP TICKETS/PASSES
For the avoidance of doubt, there is no such thing as a VIP ticket/pass/backstage pass for Glastonbury. Anyone claiming to be able to provide such a thing is bogus.
CONCEIRGE COMPANIES/THIRD PARTY SELLERS
Glastonbury Festival does not supply tickets to any “concierge services”.
Each year there are a growing number of individuals claiming to have tickets for sale, despite our best efforts to warn against unofficial ticket sellers. If you have any concerns about an individual or company claiming to have Glastonbury tickets for sale, please contact us to attempt to verify the details. You can also make a report to Action Fraud: Website / Tel: 0300 123 2040.
If you have chosen to try and purchase tickets through a potentially illegitimate ticket seller, contact your payment card issuer as soon as possible, and if you believe there is criminality involved, contact the Police along with advice from your card issuer.
PLEASE DO NOT RISK FALLING TO UNAUTHORISED TOUTS
GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL 2025 TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF ENTRY
1. Tickets for Glastonbury Festival 2025 (hereafter “the Festival”) are non-refundable after 9th May 2025 and always non-transferable. The full balance for tickets reserved by paying a £75 deposit for the 2025 Festival is due by 23:59 7th April 2025. If the full ticket balance is not paid by the applicable deadline then you will be refunded the amount you have paid less a £25 administration fee per ticket. If you pay for your ticket in full by the applicable deadline but cancel on or before 23:59 on 9th May 2025, you will be reimbursed the price paid for your ticket less the £25 administration fee. After 23:59 9th May 2025, no refunds will be made other than in the event of the cancellation of the Festival. Booking fees and postage and packing charges are non-refundable. Additional administration fees apply to ticket + coach travel bookings and accommodation bookings.
2. The artist and performer line-up and all billed attractions are subject to change at any time without notice, and access to any performance may be restricted, specifically or generally, to ensure public safety.
3. The Premises Licence Holder (hereafter “PLH”) and Glastonbury Festival Events Limited (hereafter “GFEL”) reserve the right to:
(a) refuse admission in any circumstances
(b) evict any person breaching the terms and conditions of entry, committing a criminal offence, behaving in a manner considered by GFEL or the PLH to be disorderly or in a way that has an adverse effect on public safety, or behaving in an anti-social manner or in a way that causes a public nuisance.
(c) evict all members of any group of persons where GFEL or the PLH consider that group is behaving in a persistent anti-social manner.
(d) in order to facilitate the security, safety and comfort of all guests the PLH and/or GFEL may refuse entry to ticket holders who attempt to enter the licenced Festival site, or any surrounding land used by the Festival (including car parks) that constitutes the Festival footprint, (hereafter the “Festival Site”) with contraband goods and/or prohibited articles. Please refer to www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk (hereafter “Festival website”) for information on items which will not be allowed onsite.
4. Admission is at ticket holder’s own risk. GFEL and the PLH will not be held liable for any loss, injuries or damages sustained at the event including damage, theft or losses to property and motor vehicles, if the cause is due to the negligence of the ticket holder or the actions of other patrons or third parties or force majeure. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the ticket holder or other patrons may be held liable for wilful or negligent damage to the site, site infrastructure and/or harm caused to another person at the event.
5. Duplicate tickets will not be issued for lost or stolen tickets.
6. Tickets are only valid when purchased from official agents. Tickets bought from other sources will be refused admission.
7. Tickets are personalised to the named ticket holder and may not be:
(a) sold or transferred to another person; or
(b) used by any person for promotional purposes, including as a prize or other reward in a competition or lottery, except with the prior written permission of GFEL
(c) purchased by an agent on behalf of his or her principal.
8. Where a ticket has been obtained in breach of clause 7, the obligations of GFEL in relation to the ticket will cease to have effect immediately, in particular:
(a) any person presenting the ticket may be refused entrance to, or removed without notice from the Festival
(b) the ticket may be confiscated and there shall be no obligation on GFEL to refund any monies paid for the ticket.
9. Entrance to the Festival is subject to both the Festival’s Photography Policy and the Broadcaster Internet and Filming Policy. Ticket holders may not use photographic, recording or filming equipment on the Festival site for Commercial Activity without the Festival’s prior written consent:
(a) a person may be denied entry to, or removed from the Festival Site if they are in possession of any equipment capable of taking photographs, making films, sound recordings or broadcasts; or if they take or make any photograph, film, sound recording or broadcast of anything occurring inside the Glastonbury Festival for Commercial Activity.
(b) a person may enter the Festival Site with equipment referred to in 9.(a) above where it is integrated into electronic communications apparatus designed for personal private use (such as a mobile telephone) and/or a personal stills camera, but that person may still be removed in accordance with paragraph 9.(a) above if they use or attempt to use that device for Commerical Activity.
10. Tickets cannot be used as part of any advertising, endorsement, sponsorship, marketing, media campaign, sales promotion, staff reward programme or used in any competition whether commercial or non-commercial without prior written permission of GFEL.
11. “Commercial Activity” means any commercial, promotional and trading activities (including but not limited to ambush marketing, sponsored or paid for social media posts, brand influencing and/or unauthorised filming). Such Commercial Activity is not permitted on the Festival Site without express prior written permission of GFEL. Without limiting the foregoing, ticket holders may post content from the Festival on their personal social media accounts, in line with the Festival’s Photography Policy and the Broadcaster Internet and Filming Policy however this cannot extend to any content which would by any law, or trading standards rules or regulations, require them to include hashtags such as #ad #gifted #prinvite or #thanksto(partner). For the avoidance of doubt, no such hashtags are permitted to be used in conjunction with the Festival, nor the Festival IP, nor in any other manner which may suggest or imply any commercial association with the Festival .
12. GFEL and its associated companies own various registered trademarks and other intellectual property including without limitation the marks Glastonbury, Glasto and Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm as well as the Glastonbury Festival logo and the Pyramid Stage and Ribbon Tower (collectively “Festival IP”) are registered as various classes of United Kingdom and European Community Trademarks. The Festival IP may not be used without the express written permission of GFEL.
13. Notwithstanding the foregoing, GFEL reserves its rights generally in relation to any unauthorised Commercial Activity as set out above, including but not limited to the right to issue takedowns, seek damages, and/or retrospectively charge a fee at its discretion for any Commercial Activity (including filming, photography, recording or posting, tagging or linking to branded material) which originates on the Festival Site or references the Festival’s Trademarks in relation to third party brands, services or products (or which otherwise implies a commercial relationship with the Festival), and to evict any person(s) conducting any Commercial Activity in contravention of the terms and conditions of sale and entry. In order to maintain security and safety at the Festival, images of ticket(s) and pass(es) or other accreditation copied or posted on social media may result in that ticket(s) and/or pass(es) being cancelled and no refund can be made in such circumstances.
14. As a condition of sale the ticket holder consents to being filmed, photographed and recorded for television, radio, webcast and other communication to the public in any medium and/or for any video, DVD or similar or any projection or digital mapping as part of the audience, and/or by any CCTV cameras and recordings operated by or on behalf of and made by or on behalf of GFEL for public safety and security purposes.
15. Wristbands removed from the wrist or tampered with will be rendered invalid and will not be replaced. Lost or missing wristbands will not be replaced. Those without wristbands or appropriate accreditation will be refused admission to the site or may be removed from the Festival Site. For security purposes all tickets remain the property of GFEL at all times and all wristbands issued by GFEL remain the property of GFEL until 5pm Monday 30th June 2025.
16. Anyone under the age of 16 must be accompanied to the Festival by a responsible adult (aged 18 or over, who would usually be the parent, carer, legal guardian or other adult entrusted with the care of that child) who accepts full responsibility and full supervision, at all times, for all under 16s attending under their supervision. Anyone under the age of 16 is not permitted to enter, leave or re-enter the Festival site unaccompanied by their responsible adult. Persons aged 13-15 (teenagers) may be permitted to exit and re-enter the Festival if wearing a “Parental Permission for Exit/Re-entry Wristband”.
17. GFEL will comply with all current HM Government legislation and as a condition of attendance, ticket holders will be required to comply with this legislation and any associated statutory guidelines, and accordingly, where necessary GFEL reserves the right to vary and amend these terms and conditions (solely to the extent necessary to accommodate such changes to legislation and guidance). In particular this will apply to any public health rules, policies, advice and guidance which can be subject to change at short notice.
2025 INFORMATION & NOTIFICATIONS
1. The Information section of the Festival website is essential reading before attending the Festival. For advice on personal safety, getting to the Festival, and what to bring (and not to bring) please see www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/information
2. Cars, caravans and campervans require a separate ticket. Please see the Festival website for more information.
3. Do not buy tickets from street traders or unauthorised agencies. Tickets are security printed and are personal to the ticket holder only. Any attempt to transfer or resell tickets will lead to automatic refusal at the entrance. Beware of forgeries.
4. GFEL accepts no responsibility for goods or services purchased from third parties.
5. Official merchandise will be available onsite. Please don’t buy from street traders.
6. Please only use the toilets and urinals provided. Do not pollute the streams and hedges.
7. Please use the litterbins and recycling points provided.
8. Your vehicle may be searched by security personnel at the vehicle gates on entry to the Festival car parks; in the car parks themselves; or anywhere on the Festival Site.
9. You may be searched in the car parks or at the entrance. Any items which the organisers consider may be used in an illegal or offensive manner shall be confiscated. Persons suspected of carrying out illegal and/or offensive activities onsite may be searched. Anyone resisting confiscation of disallowed items or disregarding these conditions will face eviction from the Festival Site.
10. No animals are allowed onsite, with the exception of registered guide and assistance dogs.
11. Fireworks, Chinese/flying lanterns, drones, flares and the burning of plastics are not permitted. Please see the Festival website for details of other prohibited items.
12. To protect your own safety and that of other guests, please act responsibly. Please do not take chairs, buggies and trolleys into busy areas, or to the front of stages. If your chair, buggy or trolley is causing an obstruction you will be asked to move.
13. Medical treatment at the Festival is provided by Festival Medical Services who are a separate legal entity. Any claims resulting from medical treatment onsite should be directed to Festival Medical Services. GFEL accepts no liability for any injury, claim or damages resulting from any medical treatment onsite.
14. Accessible facilities are available – please refer to the Festival website for further information.
15. Smoking, vaping and the use of e-cigarettes are not permitted in enclosed public areas, including but not limited to any tented structures.
16. Glastonbury Festival operates a ‘Challenge 21’ policy for alcohol sales. If you look under 21, you will not be served alcohol unless you can prove you are over 18 – by presenting ID, or by wearing a ‘Challenge 21’ wristband. Full details can be found on the Festival website.
17. Please note that some areas of the site, particularly front-of-stage barriers and late-night areas are unsuitable for children. This may include adult content and crowds – children may be removed from, or refused admittance to, such areas for their own safety and the safety of others. Pushchairs and trolleys which may impact on crowd movement may not be permitted in these areas. Some late night and screening facilities may have age restrictions for entry. Those wishing to attend should bring suitable ID as proof of age, and parents and responsible adults should ensure that all restrictions are adhered to. For films classified as 18, a ‘Challenge 21’ policy will apply.
18. A number of performances at the Festival may include the use of strobe, flicker and other lighting effects. Some acts may also use lasers, pyrotechnics and other special effects throughout their performance.
19. GFEL does not offer refunds in the event of lost or stolen tickets or where the ticket holder cannot attend the Festival due to reasons beyond the Festival’s control. You might consider it prudent to insure the value of your ticket in the event of such loss.
WARNING: EXCESSIVE EXPOSURE TO LOUD MUSIC MAY CAUSE DAMAGE TO YOUR HEARING
In making a ticket + coach travel booking, you confirm that you have read, understood and agreed to the full terms and conditions for Glastonbury Festival ticket holders, which can be found here and you must agree to the following:
– You must not make a ticket + coach travel booking unless you are certain you will be able to travel on the coach you have selected.
– Travel on your chosen coach is mandatory in order to receive your Festival tickets.
– Under no circumstances can a ticket booked as part of a ticket + coach travel booking be exchanged for a standard admission ticket, or other ticket types.
– Only your coach travel tickets will be dispatched in advance.
– Your Festival entry tickets will be handed out mid journey on the coach.
– You will be required to show Photo ID to receive your Festival tickets.
– You can only book ticket + coach travel options from one destination and in one time period, per transaction.
– Ticket + coach travel bookings are strictly non-transferable
– All passengers including children aged 12 and under, and PA tickets allocated by the Festival Accessibility team, must purchase a valid coach ticket in order to travel.
– If you are travelling with children aged 12 and under (including babes in arms), who do not require an entry ticket for the Festival, you will need to book these additional coach seats whilst making your ticket + coach travel booking. If the additional seats required are not available when booking, please contact coachtravel@seetickets.com upon completing your booking in order to enquire about purchasing additional coach seats (NB: standard fares apply).
– If you intend on applying for a PA ticket through the Festival’s Access Team, you will also need to book these additional coach seats whilst making your ticket + coach travel booking. If the additional seats required are not available when booking, please contact accessibility@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk to request the Access Application form. You must make sure it is clear on your application that you require an additional coach seat for your PA (NB: standard fares apply).
– See Tickets cannot guarantee all coaches will have wheelchair access and storage facilities. If you require wheelchair access or wheelchair storage you must contact coachtravel@seetickets.com and accessibility@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk no later than 30 days prior to departure to ensure the appropriate facilities can be provided.
– Where departure times are not stated, you must be available to travel at any point (AM/PM) during the specific day you have selected.
– All departure times / points will be released to you no later than 30 days prior to the event.
– In order to facilitate a speedy departure from the Festival site, See Coaches reserve the right to board passengers outside of scheduled departure times, should seats be available on alternative services.
– It is not possible to cancel part of the booking if you are unable to travel on your allotted coach you will need to cancel your ticket booking.
– An additional administration charge will be retained from any cancelled ticket + coach travel bookings.
– Admin fees for both the entry ticket and coach ticket will apply to any cancellation request.
– You must ensure that you conduct yourself in a lawful and reasonable manner. If you behave in a manner which may compromise the safety of yourself or any person or property or the vehicle, you may be removed from the coach and will not be eligible for a refund.
TICKET ENQUIRIES
You can find the answers to many frequently asked questions online in See Tickets’ Glastonbury Customer Support Centre here.
Once you have booked a ticket, you can access information regarding your ticket booking, including details of the dispatch, online via the See Tickets Customer Service Page using your booking reference number and email address or postcode.
GROUP BOOKINGS
Glastonbury Festival does not reserve group bookings. If you are planning to celebrate your wedding/handfasting/hen party/significant birthday/end of exams at the Festival, everyone in your group needs to register and purchase tickets in the same way as anybody else buying tickets
PAYMENT PROCESSING
Tickets will be available online at glastonbury.seetickets.com.
If you pay a deposit for more than one ticket you will have the option either to pay the balance collectively or individually. Balance payments can be made from additional cards at a later date, however each ticket for which the balance is settled separately will be processed as a single booking and will therefore be subject to postage and packing fees per individual transaction (£10.25).
It is each individual’s responsibility to pay their remaining balance.
A £25 administration charge will be retained from any deposits for which the balance has not been paid by 23:59 BST on Monday 7th April 2025.
Tickets purchased in resales after April 8th 2025 must be paid for in full at the point of booking.
Payment by card for UK sales is by the following card types – Visa Debit, Visa Credit, Visa Electron, Switch/Maestro Domestic, Solo, Mastercard.
Depending on your device settings, you may be offered other payment methods such as Google Pay and Apple Pay. It is your responsibility to ensure you are set up with the relevant service ahead of the sales to be able to use these methods. If you choose this option, it will show See Tickets’ registered name of ‘The Way Ahead Group’ as the payee. Please note American Express is not accepted.
For the purpose of ticket sales the UK includes Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. Sales will be process immediately in most cases and certainly within 5 working days of the sale being confirmed.
As part of our continued commitment to ensure that all tickets for Glastonbury Festival are purchased securely by genuine Festival goers, you may be asked for additional security information when purchasing Festival tickets online from seetickets.com. Depending on your method of payment, you will be directed to either Verified by Visa or Mastercard SecureCode for payment authorisation. If you often make purchases online you’re probably already signed up, but if you’ve not already subscribed to one of these services you will need to do so before your transaction can be processed.
STRONG CUSTOMER AUTHENTICATION (SCA)
UK and European banks have an additional layer of protection for online transactions, which may mean you are asked to provide additional information when making some purchases.
There’s no need to download anything, install software or register any information in advance, however, please be aware that during an online purchase from your desktop, mobile or other digital device, you may be asked to provide additional information using your bank’s chosen authentication method, to confirm you are the genuine cardholder.
These security measures will assess each online transaction and decide if you will need to take an extra step at checkout. This is called Two-factor authentication, which means you will be asked to provide at least 2 pieces of data from the following categories:
A password or PIN that you have set up with your bank
A one-time passcode issued via your mobile phone or bank issued pin-reader
Biometric authentication, such as a fingerprint or facial recognition
Whether or not you are required to complete Two-factor authentication is determined by your card issuer. If you are required to provide further details, you’ll be guided through this process by your card issuer and will not be able to complete check out until your card issuer is satisfied that authentication has been successful.
For the avoidance of doubt please check your bank/card statement following your transaction/s to be certain whether or not your payment has been successful, or contact See Tickets.
When purchasing online, you will be sent a confirmation email and booking reference number.
Please check your spam folder if you do not receive this within 24 hours. Keep the confirmation email safe. If you have any queries about your purchase you will need the booking reference number.
You will be able to use the ticket tracker with the booking reference number to confirm your purchase.
Any transaction that results in a charge back or payment dispute will be cancelled. It is your responsibility to ensure that you have sufficient funds in your account to pay for the tickets. The transaction will be completed during the five working days following the sale.
To ensure everyone has a fair and equal chance of getting a ticket, Glastonbury Festival reserves the right to cancel any bookings made using multi-hit software/applications or otherwise deploying additional technology or ”hacking” in order to gain an unfair advantage, profit or commercial gain.
Attempting to book tickets on multiple browser tabs can cause your transaction to fail. We advise that you use one single browser tab only when booking tickets, in order to avoid problems with your transaction.
As part of Glastonbury Festival’s commitment to eradicate the touting of tickets, the Festival permits the purchase of a maximum of one ticket per person in groups of up to 6 tickets per transaction. Any duplicate orders will be cancelled. In the instance of a duplicate order being cancelled, the purchaser will be refunded less the applicable administration fee.
INTERNATIONAL BOOKINGS
All international ticket buyers must be registered in the same way as UK bookers. International ticket purchases can only be made using either Visa or Mastercard credit cards.
If you are not a UK Citizen but are currently in the UK, and have a UK registered credit or debit card and UK address, you can buy in the same way as a UK resident.
International tickets will be box office collection only unless specified otherwise. Please check the order tracker for details about delivery of your order.
An overseas resident can ask a friend who is resident in the UK to purchase on their friends behalf, using that friend’s UK address, or alternatively, a UK resident can purchase a ticket for an overseas resident as one of their ticket purchases – provided that overseas resident is registered. International ticket balance payments will be taken at the same time as UK balance payments: 09:00 BST Tuesday 1st April until 23:59 BST on Monday 7th April 2025.
As with UK transactions it is your responsibility to remember to pay your balance. Any tickets for which the balance has not been paid by the end of the balance payment window will be refunded minus the relevant administration fee(s).
International tickets for those in the EU will be sent out by registered international post, unless specified otherwise. You can track your international ticket order via www.royalmail.com by entering your Track and Trace number which is available via See Tickets’ order tracker. To access the order tracker you will require your email address and booking reference number. If it is likely you will set off for the Festival more than 28 days before the event commences, please contact the team at See Tickets via their customer service form here.
International tickets for those outside of the EU, tickets will be for box office collection unless specified otherwise.
ID
All tickets will be personalised with the passport-style photograph submitted by the ticket holder during registration. As long as your registration photo is of a good likeness, you do not need ID to enter the Festival.
Every ticket holder will be required to present their personalised ticket. Checks will be made at the gates. If you are not the person whose face is printed on the ticket you will be denied entry.
Children aged 12 and under, and teen ticket holders, must be accompanied by an adult ticket holder. If you are bringing a child aged 12 or under with you who looks older than 12 you MUST bring ID to verify their age.
Anyone under the age of 16 must be accompanied to the Festival by a responsible adult (aged 18 or over, who would usually be the parent, carer, legal guardian or other adult entrusted with the care of that child) who accepts full responsibility, at all times, for all under 16s attending under their supervision. Anyone under the age of 16 is not permitted to enter, leave or re-enter the Festival site unaccompanied by their responsible adult.
When booking a ticket for a teen aged 13, 14 or 15, you must select the ‘TEEN’ ticket option, and confirm that their parent or legal guardian has consented for their data to be processed.
Those who are aged 16 or 17 are allowed to attend the Festival unaccompanied, but we would strongly advise that this decision is made with the consent of a parent or legal guardian.
Glastonbury Festival operates a ‘Challenge 21’ policy for alcohol sales. If you look under 21, you will not be served alcohol unless you can prove you are over 18 – by presenting ID, or by wearing a ‘Challenge 21’ wristband. Full details here.
Please note that some areas of the site, particularly front-of-stage barriers and late-night areas are unsuitable for children. This may include adult content and crowds. Pushchairs and trolleys which may impact on crowd movement may not be permitted in these areas. Some late night and screening facilities may have age restrictions for entry. Those wishing to attend should bring suitable ID as proof of age, and parents and responsible adults should ensure that all restrictions are adhered to. For films classified as 18, a ‘Challenge 21’ policy will apply.
Glastonbury Festivals Ltd (registered company number 02737866, together with its event organisers, Glastonbury Festival Events Limited, registered company number 04348175) and “See Tickets” (The Way Ahead Group Limited, registered company number 03554468) are committed to protecting your personal information.
The personal information provided as part of each registration will be stored and processed by See Tickets (the data processor) solely on behalf of Glastonbury Festivals Ltd (the data controller) for the purpose of notifying you when tickets for the Festival go on sale, processing any booking you may make for Glastonbury Festival and printing any tickets you purchase with your personal details and photograph, to ensure that any ticket you purchase can only be used by you.
No information collected through registration will be offered for sale or made available to any third party.
Your details will be retained for future ticket sales, so you do not need to submit a new registration each year, however we would advise that you check your registration details annually, and prior to making a booking, to ensure that all your details are up to date, and your photograph is still a good likeness. In order to do so, please make sure the email address you provide is one to which you have long term access.
To delete your registration, please visit glastonbury.seetickets.com/registration/lookup.
Please note this is a separate database to the Festival Newsletter. To unsubscribe from the Glastonbury newsletter mailing list, simply click the link at the bottom of any newsletter email or follow the link to subscribe or unsubscribe here.
For more information, please see the Festival’s Privacy Policy.
Glastonbury Festival is committed to being an event accessible to all which is why we have been working with Attitude is Everything since 2005 to ensure we can achieve this.
Attitude is Everything is a charity set up to help improve D/deaf and disabled people’s access to live music. Glastonbury Festival is currently signed up to their ‘Live Events Access Charter’.
For information on how to buy tickets, plus the access facilities available to Festival-goers please read the following sections.
If you have any further questions, please email the festivals Access Team – accessibility@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk
If you would prefer to speak with someone, please email us with your name and a contact number and we will happily give you a call.
Please be aware that the Access Team is currently working part time, so at busy periods please allow up to 10 days for us to respond to your enquiry.
There are no separate weekend tickets for festival goers with access requirements. Anyone wanting to attend the festival must register and book tickets in one of the upcoming ticket sales.
General Admission full weekend tickets (valid from Wednesday 25th June to Sunday 29th June) for Glastonbury 2025 cost £373.50 + a £5 booking fee.
Combined Coach Tickets – Ticket + coach travel options will went on sale at 6pm (GMT) on Thursday 14th November 2024.
General admission tickets – Tickets went on sale at 9am (GMT) on Sunday 17th November 2024.
Tickets for the Festival are sold exclusively at glastonbury.seetickets.com.
You could book up to 6 tickets per transaction by paying a deposit of £75 per person when tickets went on sale (plus the coach fare, if you were booking a ticket + coach travel option). The remaining balance will then be payable in the first week of April 2025 (from 09:00 BST Tuesday 1st April – 23:59 BST Monday 7th April) when it should be possible to add car parking passes and cancellation protection to your booking.
Everyone, aged 13 or over, who wishes to attend the Festival must be individually registered before they can try for a ticket in the ticket sales.
Registration closed at 5pm GMT on Monday, 11th November, after which there is no opportunity to submit/re-submit a registration until after the November ticket sales.
Attempting to book tickets online using multiple browser tabs can confuse the ticket sales process and cause your transaction to fail. We strongly advise that you use just one browser tab when trying to book tickets, in order to avoid possible problems with your transaction.
Postage and packing (£10.25) is charged per order – rather than per ticket – when paying your remaining ticket balance.
You may book up to 6 tickets per transaction by paying a deposit per person when tickets go on sale (plus the coach fare if you are booking a combined coach ticket).
Everyone, aged 13 or over, who wishes to attend the Festival must be registered before they can pay a deposit. You can register by going to glastonbury.seetickets.com/registration
Attempting to book tickets online using multiple browser tabs can confuse the ticket sales process and cause your transaction to fail. We strongly advise that you use just one browser tab when trying to book tickets, to avoid possible problems with your transaction.
Additional items such as Worthy View accommodation, Campervan passes, and tipis will be available for ticket holders to book later in the Autumn.
Both UK and International ticket balances will be payable in the spring, when you will also be able to add car park tickets and cancellation protection to your booking.
Postage and packing is charged per order – rather than per ticket – when paying your ticket balance.
WHAT’S INCLUDED?
Tickets to Glastonbury Festival Include:
– Entry to the Festival, with over 3,000 performances across more than 100 stages
– Five nights camping (with no early entry fees)
– Free programme
– Free mobile phone charging
– Free on-site newspaper
– Free mobile app
– Free firewood
– Kidzfield, where all entertainment, rides and activities are free of charge
– Support for Oxfam, Greenpeace, WaterAid and hundreds of other worthy causes (£2m given annually in recent years)
– Funds to improve the Festival’s infrastructure and environmental impact
ONLY SEE TICKETS ARE AUTHORISED TO SELL TICKETS FOR THE GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL
No other site or agency will be allocated tickets. If you miss out on tickets when they go on sale, please bear in mind that any cancellations will be made available for resale at face value via the Festival’s authorised ticket agency, See Tickets.
All tickets for the Festival are individually personalised to the named ticket holder and are strictly non-transferable. Security checks are carried out on arrival, and only the specified ticket holder will be admitted to the Festival.
TICKET REGISTRATION
WHY YOU NEED TO REGISTER
Registration closed at 5pm GMT on Monday, 11th November, after which there was no opportunity to submit/re-submit a registration until after the November ticket sales.
To prevent touting, tickets for Glastonbury Festival are non-transferable. Each ticket features the photograph of the registered ticket holder with security checks carried out to ensure that only the person in the photograph is admitted to the Festival.
Whether you are booking a deposit for a Festival ticket or a coach package, every person (aged 13 or over) who intends to purchase a ticket must have their own valid registration number.
If you plan to buy tickets for other people, they all need to be registered – and you will need their registration numbers and corresponding postcodes in order to purchase tickets on their behalf.
Children aged 12 and under when the Festival takes place are admitted free of charge and do not need a ticket and do not need to register.
Those people attending on complimentary PA ticket will also need to be registered.
Please note, registration does not guarantee you a ticket (and in recent years, demand for tickets has outstripped supply).
Resale of tickets is strictly prohibited and will result in the cancellation of your order.
HOW TO REGISTER
Online registration is free of charge and only takes a few minutes. We recommend completing your registration well in advance of attempting to book tickets, as registration usually closes for several weeks around each ticket sale, and you will need to allow time to re-submit your registration if you need to. Once registration closes there will be no opportunity to submit/re-submit a registration until after the ticket sales.
You will need to provide basic contact details and to upload a passport-standard photo. Registration will be temporarily suspended before and during the main ticket sales periods so please allow time for your photo to be approved.
Please ensure all your details are correct, and that your photo is in jpeg format, of a suitable size (min 900 pixels wide x 1350 pixels tall), of portrait orientation and passport standard before submitting your details.
More information about how to edit or crop your registration photo, can be found by going to glastonbury.seetickets.com/registration
Once you have submitted your photo, you will receive an automated email confirming receipt of your data, followed by a second email within 48 hours in the working week, either accepting or rejecting your photo, and if successful, confirming your registration number. If you have not received a confirmation email within 48 hours (Monday-Friday) of making an online application, please check your spam folder. If your registration is rejected or you do not receive a registration number within a further 48 hours please re-register.
If you are unable to register online please send an SAE to: Glastonbury Registration, PO Box 4288, Shepton Mallet, BA4 9BB, to receive a postal registration form. Postal registrations will be confirmed within 14 working days of receipt. If you haven’t received a registration number within this period, please contact the Festival Office.
Your chance of buying tickets is not influenced in any way by the number of times you register, or the information you provide during registration. Registration does not reserve or guarantee you a ticket.
EXISTING REGISTRATIONS
As an organisation, we need to ensure that the data we hold about you is relevant, accurate, kept up to date, and stored for no longer than is necessary. This means from time to time, we need to review the data we hold for you.
Any registrations submitted prior to 2020 required reviewing and confirming in Autumn 2023. If you registered prior to 2020 and intend to try and buy tickets in a future ticket sale, please check to see if you have any valid registrations here or submit a fresh registration here.
Please note, it is not possible to change your registered photo if you have a current booking linked to your registration details, so please make sure you have an up to date photograph before attempting to book tickets.
If you no longer have access to the email account which you originally used to register, you will need to submit a new registration. If in any doubt, please re-register well in advance of when you intend to book tickets. Your chance of buying tickets is not influenced in any way by the number of times you register, or the information you provide during registration. Registration does not reserve or guarantee you a ticket.
Registrations without a ticket booking linked to them can be updated and these changes would be reflected in future ticket sales. You can update some of your registered details by looking up your registration here using the registered email address.
If you are successful in a ticket sale your registration will become locked and any attempted update would not be reflected on the currently ticket booking. If you need to update your delivery address, you will need to amend this directly with See Tickets.
PLEASE DO NOT RISK FALLING VICTIM TO UNAUTHORISED TOUTS
You must not book in the Combined Coach Ticket sale unless you are certain you will be able to travel on the coach you have selected.
- Combined coach tickets cannot be changed to general admission tickets.
- Travel on your chosen coach is mandatory to receive your Festival ticket.
- Festival tickets cannot be collected from the festival site.
If you are travelling with children aged 12 and under, who do not require an entry ticket for the Festival, you will need to book these additional coach seats whilst making your ticket + coach travel booking. If the additional seats required are not available when booking, please contact coachtravel@seetickets.com upon completing your booking in order to enquire about purchasing additional coach seats (NB: standard fares apply).
If you intend on applying for a PA ticket through the Festival's Access Team, you will also need to book these additional coach seats whilst making your ticket + coach travel booking. If the additional seats required are not available when booking, please contact accessibility@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk to request the Access application form. You must make sure it is clear on your application that you require an additional coach seat for your PA (NB: standard fares apply).
Before booking in the ticket + coach travel sale please consider the following:
- Do you have a disability or existing health condition that could make travelling by coach an unsuitable or difficult option for you?
- Are you able to sit on a coach for the required length of time without having the option of taking regular breaks when you want to.
- All the coaches will be full, please consider whether you will be comfortable being on a busy coach in close proximity to other passengers.
- Coaches will have at least one toilet on board, however, please note these will not be wheelchair accessible and will not be regularly cleaned during the coach journey.
- If you intend on applying for a PA ticket and your application is successful, this person must travel with you on your designated coach. Please book this additional seat when making your ticket + coach travel booking.
- If you buy a combined coach ticket you cannot then purchase a campervan ticket in either the accessible campsite or general campervan fields.
- Combined coach tickets cannot be changed to general admission tickets. If you buy a combined coach ticket you must travel on your designated coach.
All Festival-goers (including children 12 years and under) needing to use any of the access facilities, including the PA ticket scheme, must complete the Festival's online access application form, and have either a valid Nimbus Access Card or the digital Nimbus Glastonbury Access Pass.
Access to the facilities will be provided to customers based on the symbols on their Nimbus Access Card or digital Nimbus Glastonbury Access Pass.
Please click here to be taken to a document that explains what the different Access Card symbols mean and the guidance set by Nimbus on what facilities at the Festival these would give access to.
The deadline for Access Applications for Glastonbury 2025 is the 30th April, however we would recommend people submit their Access Applications as early as possible after the ticket sale to avoid missing out on facilities.
When you have paid your ticket deposit, email the Access Team to request the link to the festival’s online access application form.
The Nimbus Access Card
Glastonbury is proud to partner with Nimbus Disability and The Access Card, one of the largest disability accreditation organisations who are now helping the Festival improve and protect our access provision. Nimbus Disability is Queen’s Award-winning Social Enterprise and an organisation run by and for disabled people and is recognised as a lead authority in accessibility.
Festival-goers wanting to apply for any of the Festival's access facilities, including the Festival's PA Ticket Scheme, must now have either a digital Glastonbury Access Pass or be a current Access Card holder.
Applications for the Glastonbury Access Pass will be undertaken and submitted through Nimbus Disability. The digital Glastonbury Access Pass is a free pass that will be valid for 3 years, so you will be able to use this at subsequent Festivals. There is also the option to upgrade to an Access Card for £15 which you will be able to use across live music venues, events, and tourist attractions across the UK and beyond!
Existing Access Card holders do not need to re-apply; you will just need to supply your card ID number with your Glastonbury Festival Access Application.
The team at Nimbus Disability will process Glastonbury Access Pass applications within 72 hours and you will be provided with a unique reference number which can then be used to complete your Glastonbury Festival Access Application Form.
Nimbus Disability operate this scheme for the majority of the UK’s entertainment, ticketing, and leisure venues in the UK and worldwide, as such, they will handle all your details and information securely and safely.
To apply for the free digital Glastonbury Access Pass please click here.
Festival goers unable to attend the Festival without the support of a Personal Assistant (PA), can apply to use the PA Ticket Scheme, which includes a complimentary ticket for your PA at no extra cost.
Festival goers must have the +1 requirement on their Access Card or their digital Glastonbury Access Pass. The scheme is not run first-come first-served.
You must pay the ticket deposit on your own ticket, before you complete the Festival's Access Application Form. You will be asked to include your Access Card / digital Glastonbury Access Pass ID number in the form.
Your PA must be registered with the Festival and you must include their details in the Festival’s Access Application form, so that the PA complimentary ticket can be printed with your PA name and their festival registration number. It is then available for collection when you both arrive together at the Festival.
The closing date for applications is 30th April.
PA Ticket Scheme Terms and Conditions
1. Festival goers wishing to apply for a PA ticket must have paid for their ticket before applying.
2. Only festival goers that would be unable to attend the festival without the support of a PA should apply for the scheme.
3. PA tickets are provided on the basis that the PA is willing and able to assist the access customer with the access application process (if required), as well as throughout their entire stay at the festival.
4. PAs must arrive and leave the festival with the access customer they are supporting.
5. PAs must be able to perform all requirements as needed by the access customer, including assistance during an evacuation or other emergency.
6. The PA ticket scheme is only available to ticket holders, so children under 13 are not eligible.
7. Those attending on PA tickets should be over 18 unless otherwise agreed with the Access Team.
8. People attending on PA tickets must have a valid festival registration.
9. A PA must be able to perform all duties as required by the access customer. They must have experience in that role to allow them to support the person they are coming with.
The Accessible Campsite is in Spring Ground which is on the west side of the Festival site next to the Woodsies Tent. It is a calm, friendly space stewarded 24/7 throughout the Festival. You will find the following facilities within this campsite:
- Wheelchair accessible and standard unisex toilets
- Wheelchair adapted showers for use by our access customers only. PAs' and other members of your group will not be able to use these showers. The showers are prioritised to those with the Access Wristbands who require them for medical/ health reasons.
- Charging facilities for wheelchairs and medical equipment
- Changing Places unit featuring a changing bed, toilet, sink and hoist. Please note that hoist slings will not be available. If you wish to use this unit please bring your own slings.
- Accessible sinks and freshwater points
- Fridge for secure medication storage
- Hot water for cooking and drinks
- Waste disposal point
- Rubbish points, including separate medical waste and separate sharps bins.
- Campsite HQ
- Communal campfire
The Campsite Hub is also based in the accessible campsite and is a space for customers to take some time out when needed and shelter from the sun or rain. A support desk provides advice and information to access customers. A team of volunteer practitioners also offer free daily taster treatments such as massage, reflexology and reiki which you can book to fit in with your Festival schedule.
If an electric power supply is required for a medical device, you must request this in the Access Application Form and provide documentation that confirms why this is essential.
GROUP & TENT SIZE IN THE ACCESSIBLE CAMPSITE
- Due to limited space and the demand on the facilities in the campsite, access customers staying in the accessible campsite can have a maximum of 3 other people stay with them. This number includes PAs' and children 13 years and over. Children 12 and under are not included in this number but are of course welcome to stay with you in this field.
- If you want to camp in a larger group, you can do this in one of the public fields near to the accessible campsite and still be given access to the facilities within this field if required.
- We appreciate some customers might need to use a larger tent for access reasons but friends/family staying with you cannot bring oversized tents. If this happens there is the danger, we will run out of space in the campsite. We ask that a group of 4 brings a maximum of 2 tents.
- Please note gazebos are not allowed in the accessible campsite. If they are put up, they will be removed.
WICKET GROUND
Wicket Ground accessible campervan field is located next to Spring Ground accessible campsite. Spaces in this field are limited and are reserved for Festival-goers that are not able to camp due to their disability. Wheelchair-accessible toilets and charging facilities for wheelchairs and medical equipment are available in this area. Access customers can also use the facilities in the Spring Ground accessible campsite.
Campervan & caravan tickets for Wicket Ground can only be requested via the Access Team by completing the online Access Application Form.
Please attempt to purchase a ticket in the Accommodation sale on the 28th November at 12 noon (GMT).
These spaces always get allocated very early so customers are advised to complete their access application form as soon as it becomes available in early December.
Only campervans/caravans under 8m long can be accommodated in the Accessible Campsite.
EAST CAMPERVAN FIELD
We have a reserved accessible campervan area in the East Campervan fields for Festival-goers with access requirements. Wheelchair accessible toilets and charging facilities for wheelchairs and medical equipment is available in this area.
Festival-goers wanting to apply for an East Accessible Campervan space must firstly secure a standard East Campervan ticket when they go on sale on Thursday 28th November at 12 noon (GMT).
Once you have secured this East standard ticket you can then request for this to be upgraded to an East Accessible Campervan space.
Only campervans/caravans under 8m long can be accommodated in the East Campervan Fields, including the reserved accessible area.
BATH & WEST SHOWGROUND
Campervans/caravans that are both under 8m and over 8m and over in length can be accommodated at the Bath & West Showground. Charging facilities are not available at the Bath & West Showground.
Bath & West campervan tickets will go on go on sale on Thursday 28th November at 12 noon (GMT).
The Festival wants to be a safe and happy place for everyone to enjoy. However, the size of the site and the large crowds mixed in with all the different sounds, lights, smells and experiences can be overwhelming especially for customers with mental health, emotional and sensory issues.
There will be Sensory Calm Tents located in different locations within the Festival. The aim of these spaces will be to provide a safe, low-level stimulation and recalibration zone for our neurodivergent Festival-goers. This will be created by using adjustable lighting, textures, and sounds. There will also be weighted blankets and ear defenders that people can use whilst in the spaces.
The spaces will be managed by a mixture of Autism specialists and neurodiverse volunteers who are passionate about the importance of calm spaces in busy, vibrant, and loud festival environments.
There will also be Welfare Centres providing experienced, caring and confidential help for all kinds of practical and personal problems. The Festival Branch of Samaritans are also onsite offering 24-hour emotional support from the Green Fields.
BSL SERVICE
There will be a team of BSL Interpreters at the Festival offering a free service to our D/deaf customers. Bookings can be made both in advance of the Festival, and during the event, for this service. There will also be interpreters based at some of the spoken word stages throughout the event.
We ask that anyone wanting to use this service does complete the Access Application Form so that we can ensure they receive all the relevant information on this service before the festival.
INDUCTION/ HEARING LOOPS
There will be induction loops installed at the Cabaret Tent, Astrolabe, Big Top Circus Tent, Cinema Tent and Leftfield Tent. There will also be a mobile loop system located in the Accessible Campsite HQ and the Information Tent located at the Meeting Point.
VIEWING PLATFORMS/ VIEWING AREAS
- There will be viewing platforms at all the main stages. These raised platforms are solely for Festival-goers that need to be seated to be able to watch the performances, plus one accompanying person.
- Festival-goers that require access to these platforms will need to apply for a Viewing Platform (VP) pass. This can be requested through this application form.
- The viewing platforms get very busy so can be overwhelming for customers who find crowded spaces difficult.
- Festival-goers using electric scooters will be asked to park these at the bottom of the ramps in a designated space so that more space is available on the viewing platforms.
- Chairs are not provided on any of the platforms, however access customers and 1 accompanying person can bring their own chairs to use on these.
- Every viewing platform has a team of Access Stewards checking wristbands and ensuring customers are using the space safely. Viewing Platform are run on a first-come first-serve basis, once these are at capacity stewards will close the platform and revert to a one off/one on system.
- Wheelchair charging points will be available on some of the viewing platforms.
- Wheelchair accessible & standard toilets will be available at all viewing platforms.
- Smoking is not permitted on any of the viewing platforms.
- Anyone found to be misusing the viewing platforms or behaving in an unacceptable manner will be asked to leave the platform. If necessary, VP and PA passes will also be removed from offending customers.
- At some stages/tents there will also be ground level designated viewing areas.
- Information on the location of all viewing platforms and viewing areas will be made available closer to the Festival.
ACCESSIBLE TOILETS
There are both wheelchair accessible and standard toilets that are locked throughout the Festival site so that only registered access customers can use them. Customers who require quick access to toilets due to having conditions such as IBS or IBD can apply to have access to these toilets.
Applications for access to these locked toilets for Glastonbury 2024 must be submitted by the 30th April 2024.
Please note the access toilets are not flushing toilets and are not all located by hand washing stations. There will however always be the option of hand sanitizer in these toilets.
CHANGING PLACES TOILET
There is a Changing Places toilet located in the Accessible Campsite. This high dependency toilet unit contains an electric raised bed with a hoist above. Please note that hoist slings will not be available so should be brought by customers.
Glastonbury Festival is an outdoor event taking place on 1500 acres of farmland in Somerset. The main festival site is within a grassy valley, which does mean there are hills, and the terrain is uneven in places. There are a mixture of stone and gravel paths throughout the site, as well as some temporary trackways used to create temporary roads.
It is important to remember that the weather can have a massive impact on the ground conditions. During inclement weather some parts of the site may become muddy or water-logged. In hot weather some parts of the site may also become dusty.
The majority of the Festival site is in the open air, so it is important that Festival-goers come prepared for all weather conditions.
There are different areas for customers to enjoy throughout the Festival site, below are details of the distances between these different areas and the accessible campsite.
ACCESSIBLE CAMPSITE TO:
Accessible Car Park = 900m
Pyramid Stage VP1 = 900m
Other Stage VP = 1km
Theatre & Circus Area = 1.8km
Deafzone Tent = 1.3km
Late Night Area = 2km
East Campervan Field = 1.6km
Festival Bus Station = 700m
Pyramid Stage VP2 = 750m
The Park = 1.8km
West Holts VP = 1.8km
Green Fields = 2km
Kids Field = 1.2km
Big Ground Medical = 950m
THEATRE & CIRCUS SHUTTLE BUS DROP OFF TO:
Late Night Area = 200m
Acoustic Tent = 550m
Deafzone Tent = 670m
Kids Field = 500m
East Campervan Field = 700m
Green Fields = 800m
West Holts VP = 400m
Leftfield Tent = 600m
Pyramid Stage VP1 = 950m
Big Ground Medical = 1.3km
PARK GROUND SHUTTLE BUS DROP OFF TO:
The Park VP = 550m
Other Stage VP = 350m
Leftfield Tent = 900m
Green Fields = 950m
West Holts VP = 1.2km
Silver Hayes = 420m
The 2025 Access Map will be available in June. Click here to see the 2024 Access Map.
Both electric and manual wheelchairs will be available to hire in advance of the Festival. More information on how to book one of these will be available in the Access Application Pack.
Wheelchair charging will be available at different locations across the Festival site.
Please note the access facilities are not for people with temporary impairments such as broken bones, healing wounds or woman who are pregnant.
Unfortunately, the Festival cannot offer closer parking, reserve camping or assistance getting on/ off and around the site to people with temporary impairments.
Please refer to the medical and first aid information if you have concerns about attending the Festival with a temporary impairment.
Sighted Guides
There will be a team of sighted guides available during the Festival to aid blind and visually impaired Festival goers.
Guide Dogs
The festival recognises accredited guide dogs & assistance dogs which have been trained by a member of the International Guide Dog Federation (IGDF) or Assistance Dogs International (ADI).
We request that festival goers wanting to bring their accredited guide dogs and assistance dogs can show they have the ‘Assistance Dog’ symbol on their Access Card/ Pass.
Glastonbury is a very large site where dogs would experience dense crowds, high levels of noise, lasers, strobes and pyrotechnics. We ask that festival goers fully consider these points and think about the welfare of their dog and whether they can handle this environment for up to 5 days.
If you are authorised to bring a guide/ assistance dog to Glastonbury Festival, you would be required to camp in the accessible campsite or accessible campervan field. You would receive information on dog spending areas and waste disposal. You would be responsible for managing the hygiene of your dog whilst onsite, which includes clearing up their waste.
Accessible and Blue Badge Parking
The Accessible Car Park is located via the Yellow Gate on the west of the site. This car park is only for festival goers with access requirements who have completed the online Access Application Form.
Parking tickets for the Accessible Car Park can only be purchased via the festivals Access Team.
Parking in this area is limited, so friends and family arriving in separate vehicles will not be able to use this car park.
Wheelchair Accessible Shuttle Bus
There will be a wheelchair accessible shuttle bus service running during the festival.
This will initially run from the accessible car park taking access customers to the accessible campsite with their camping equipment. It will also then run through the Festival from the accessible campsite to various drop off/pick up points around the site.
The shuttle service is only available to access customers plus 1 accompanying person.
Arriving by Coach
The Festival Coach Station is located by Pedestrian Gate A. An accessible shuttle bus will be available to transport registered access customers arriving into the Festival Coach Station to the Access Arrivals Tent. Access customers can request further information on this when completing the Access Application Form.
Getting to Worthy View and Sticklinch
Festival goers staying at Worthy View will be able to use the Worthy Shuttle to get from the Festival Coach Station to this campsite. Please note there is not a Festival bus running to Sticklinch from the Festival Coach Station. Festival goers must make their own way to Sticklinch on foot via Pedestrian Gate A.
If you are attending the Festival as a volunteer, member of crew or as a performer and you need to use the Festival’s access provision you will need to complete the Festival’s Crew Accessibility Application. Please contact crew.accessibility@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk in the New Year to request this. We ask that you do not make an application until your position at the Festival has been confirmed.
Assistance Dogs
The festival recognises accredited guide dogs & assistance dogs which have been trained by a member of the International Guide Dog Federation (IGDF) or Assistance Dogs International (ADI).
We request that festival goers wanting to bring their accredited guide dogs and assistance dogs can show they have the ‘Assistance Dog’ symbol on their Access Card/ Pass.
Glastonbury is a very large site where dogs would experience dense crowds, high levels of noise, lasers, strobes and pyrotechnics. We ask that festival goers fully consider these points and think about the welfare of their dog and whether they can handle this environment for up to 5 days.
If you are authorised to bring a guide/ assistance dog to Glastonbury Festival, you would be required to camp in the accessible campsite or accessible campervan field. You would receive information on dog spending areas and waste disposal. You would be responsible for managing the hygiene of your dog whilst onsite, which includes clearing up their waste.
Accommodation options for the 2025 Festival will go on sale at 12noon (GMT) on THURSDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2024 exclusively at glastonbury.seetickets.com
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The vast majority of Festival-goers spend their weekend under canvas, taking advantage of the camping fields which are included in your ticket price (from Wednesday night until Monday morning). But others choose to bring their campervan/caravan or to stay in one of the Festival’s legendary Tipis. Please note that no sleeping, camping or fires are allowed in the car parks.
Since 2013, we have also introduced an official off-site, pre-erected camping area, Worthy View. We are pleased to confirm the return of the Sticklinch campsite on the former site of the West Campervan Fields which was introduced for the 2020 Festival.
In order to make an accommodation booking, you must already have a valid ticket booking for Glastonbury 2025.
Wherever you choose to sleep, we’d heartily recommend that you check out the packing list in the Advice section of the website for tips on what to bring with you.
LOCAL ACCOMMODATION
For those who don’t wish to stay in a tent, a limited number of local property owners offer rooms or even whole houses to rent over the duration of the Festival period. If you are interested in booking a room or house in the local area, or are a local resident with a property or room you would like to rent out, please contact the team via the Any Other Enquiries option on the contact form.
BEWARE UNOFFICIAL OFF-SITE CAMPING
As a consequence of our popularity, there has been an increasing demand for unofficial off-site camping. Some of these sites have done a good job, by being fairly priced and well managed. Unfortunately, this is not true for them all, and I have had to bear the cost of some of these outfits who have made off with the money they’ve received, but not provided the camp sites.
We also continue to hear of people falling victim to third party “concierge” services, who claim to be able to source tickets, often at above face value, which they ultimately fail to deliver. Please do not become a victim of this fraud (if you are offered tickets by any third party, please contact us).
“I want to warn anyone who might be spending their money on these sites that we are not responsible for them, and cannot guarantee that they won’t let you down. If you would like to get in contact with us before parting with your money, we can guide you in the right direction.”
– Michael Eavis
For your safety, we recommend that you consider the following points before booking with an unofficial offsite campsite:
· What is the access like between the site and the Festival?
· How far do I have to travel/walk?
· Is it a walking route or is there transport?
· Is there a well-lit safe route to and from the Festival?
· Do I need to walk on the busy roads in the dark? We do not recommend that anyone walks on the main A roads at night as there are fast moving vehicles and not many pavements and footpaths.
Tipis have long established themselves as part of the annual landscape at Glastonbury Festival. There are a limited number of Tipis available to hire for Festival-goers, in the Tipi Village near the Stone Circle and adjacent to the Park area of the Festival, offering spectacular views across the whole site from the hills.
The Tipi Village offers pre-erected 18ft Tipis on the Southern slopes of the Festival site – leaving you with nothing to carry home but your bags. Each Tipi can house up to 6 adults. A Tipi for Glastonbury Festival 2025 will cost £1795 to hire (Festival tickets not included).
Accommodation options will go on sale at 12noon (GMT) on Thursday 28th November 2024 exclusively at glastonbury.seetickets.com.
In order to make an accommodation booking, you must already have a valid ticket booking for Glastonbury 2025.
All prices are for five nights – Wednesday June 25th to Sunday June 29th, inclusive. Prices do not include Festival tickets. Everyone who wishes to stay in the Tipi Village must have a valid Festival ticket.
Tipi dwelling is an incredible and elemental experience, but not a luxury one, so whilst the Tipis include a waterproof groundsheet, inner lining and rain catcher, you will need to bring your own bedding, mats, and any other necessary creature comforts.
The Tipi Village has its own facilities including compost toilets and showers, plus there will be hot food and drinks available to purchase, a communal fire, and space around the Tipis to sit, and for children to play.
BOOKING REFUND PROTECTION
Accommodation bookings are refundable up until May 9th 2025. Optional TicketPlan Booking Refund Protection for accommodation bookings is available when making your booking.
Booking Refund Protection provides cover for a range of unforeseen circumstances that may prevent you being able to stay in the accommodation you have booked. A summary of the Terms and Conditions can be found on the booking site. Please note that this Booking Refund Protection offers cover for your accommodation only in the event that the lead booker is unable to attend. Refund Protection is subject to an additional charge of £50.00 per Tipi booking. Click here to download a PDF of the TicketPlan Booking Refund Protection Summary.
BOOKING ENQUIRIES
All bookings are taken by See Tickets. The Festival does not have access to See Tickets’ booking system or individual booking information, so if you have an enquiry specific to your booking, then please contact See Tickets via their Customer Service Page.
Once you have booked your accommodation, you can also access information regarding your ticket booking, including details of ticket dispatch, online at glastonbury.seetickets.com using your booking reference number and email address or postcode.
Tipi bookings are subject to the pre-erected accommodation terms and conditions.
Your ticket price includes access to the camping fields. You can choose to pitch your tent anywhere within the designated camping zones that sit throughout the Festival, from fields right next to the Pyramid Stage to more tranquil areas on the outskirts of the Festival.
WHERE TO PITCH YOUR TENT
Different areas have different atmospheres. For example, Pennard Hill Ground, between The Park and The Healing Fields, is a popular, lively spot. It has a culture of its own with people returning year on year. Alternatively, camping zones on the periphery of the Festival, such as Limekilns and Hitchin Hill Ground, tend to be quieter. Some camping fields are very busy and fill up quickly but there is usually more camping space to the west of the site near the Park. Camping areas are marked out on the site map
Although the capacity of Glastonbury Festival remained the same as previous years' a substantial new area of extra camping space was brought in for 2011's Festival. The extra space is close to the west car parks, just over the concrete road and a very short walk to the main site and entertainment areas.
There are two Family Camping areas at Glastonbury Festival: at Wicket Ground, on the north-west side of the site, and at Cockmill Meadow, on the eastern side of the site, above the Kidzfield. You can find them on the map
CAMPING TIPS
- BBQs can cause carbon monoxide poisoning when left in your tent. Never put them in an enclosed space, even after they appear to have gone out. For more info click here.
- Campsite stewards have a base in every camping field. Check out where the nearest one is to you. They can direct and advise you, and are first port of call in an emergency - be it a medical or security issue.
- It is worth noting where you camp in relation to a numbered Fire Point or other fixed point, or clearly marking your pitch with a flag. It can be a nightmare to find your tent without a recognisable landmark.
- Please do not take up too much space when setting up camp. And please, please do not bring a gazebo. They needlessly take up valuable camping space (and there are plenty of more interesting places to sit at the Festival than just outside your tent).
- Say hello to your neighbours to build a community feeling and provide greater security. Look after each other and if someone is feeling ill, get help.
- Remember that tents are very vulnerable, even zipped up. Padlocks scream "I have something worth nicking in here".
- If you're worried about something being stolen, don't leave it in your tent. Essential valuables can be left at the free 24-hour Property Lock-ups which are prominent around the site. They also provide free loo rolls and soap. They are marked on Festival maps with the keyhole logo.
- Postcode your valuables. UV pens are available at Property Lock-ups.
- Bear in mind that the most commonly lost items in the camping fields are keys, wallets, phones and cameras. Please keep them safe!
- Be inventive about hiding your money - and don't keep it all in one place.
- Love the farm - please do not leave any kit behind when you leave the farm.
FAMILY CAMPING
Family Camping areas are provided in two locations on site: at Wicket Ground and Cockmill Meadow. Both campsites are fenced to provide a contained and safe area for our younger Festival-goers.
Stewards at these locations will meet and greet as many families as possible on arrival, but they will also be checking that the sites are prioritised for families with children.
Please be aware that when camping in these fields:
- You may be asked to keep the noise down in the evenings
- You will almost certainly be amongst early risers, who will be living their best Festival lives at 6am
Please note these family-designated campsites are not for groups of adults camping without children.
We would ask those camping in these areas to be considerate when setting up their tents, bearing in mind that this family-designated area is limited and to only take up the space required by their tents. This way we can make sure that all those with children who want to use the campsite, are able to camp there.
These campsites will be monitored and patrolled by campsite crew. This way we can ensure large groups do not take over areas of the campsites. You may be asked to relocate if this is the case.
Facilities such as paper ‘emergency contact’ wristbands will be available at these campsites as well as at the Kidzfield and Green Kids areas, and Info Points across the Festival site.
Anyone heading for the Cockmill Meadow family campsite, by the Acoustic field, should take the Purple Route into the Festival.
ACCESSIBLE CAMPING
The accessible campsite is located in Spring Ground, on the west side of the site. Only Festival goers who have completed the Festivals Access Application form by the 30th April can stay in this field. Please contact the Festivals Access Team for more information – accessibility@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk
Anyone planning to bring a campervan or caravan in 2025 will need to book their own campervan/caravan tickets and will need to present both their named campervan/caravan ticket and Festival ticket to be able to park in these fields. Campervan/caravan tickets will feature the name and address of the ticket booker. A maximum of one campervan/caravan ticket can be booked per transaction. If your campervan is larger than 8m in length, please book a large campervan pitch, which are only available at the Bath & West Showground. Caravans/campervans larger than 8m will be turned away from the East Campervan areas and will be sent to the Bath and West subject to space still being available and will be charged the extra fee.
Accommodation options will go on sale at 12noon (GMT) on Thursday 28th November 2024 exclusively at glastonbury.seetickets.com.
Wicket Ground on the west of the site is a dedicated campervan field for Festival goers with disabilities. Tickets for this field can only be purchased via the Festivals Access Team and by completing the Access Application form. Only caravans/ campervans under 8m can stay in Wicket Ground. Please contact the Festivals Access Team for more information – accessibility@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk
In order to make an accommodation booking, you must already have a valid ticket booking for Glastonbury 2025.
You will have the option of booking from a number of different campervan/caravan ticket types:
East Quiet Campervans/ Hired, Delivered Vehicle Pitches (Blue route):
Pitch up to 8m x 7m, for one vehicle up to 8m in length – £200
Suitable for Families, those with access issues and those looking for a field with fewer pitches. Situated between Blue route and the Festival site. Turn left for Quiet Camping off Blue route.
East General Campervans (Blue route):
Pitch up to 8m x 7m, for one vehicle up to 8m in length – £200
Situated off Blue route turning right to access the camping fields.
Bath & West Campervans Regular Pitch (White route):
Pitch up to 8m x 7m, for one vehicle up to 8m in length – £200
Located at the Bath & West Showground, with a 24 hour free shuttle bus service to the Festival site.
Bath & West Campervans Large Pitch (White route):
Pitch up to 16m x 7m, for all vehicles over 8m in length including hired vehicles being delivered – £300
Located at the Bath & West Showground, with a 24 hour free shuttle bus service to the Festival site.
Please note that demand for campervan tickets is usually very high, so we would recommend booking one as soon as they are released.
Whilst every effort will be made to accommodate campervans in your preferred site, the Festival reserves the right to provide alternative facilities in the event of adverse conditions.
As with your Festival tickets, campervan tickets are non-transferable and will include the name and address of the booker. Attempts to re-sell them may result in their cancellation. If you book a campervan ticket and later change your mind, refunds are available prior to the ticket refund deadline (9th May 2025); subject to an administration charge of £25.
Campervan tickets are only available to general admission ticket holders. It is not possible to purchase a car park or campervan ticket in conjunction with a ticket + coach travel booking.
Campervan tickets will be sent out with your Festival tickets (unless booked in a resale or after paying your ticket balance).
Caravans, trailer tents and campervans will only be admitted to designated campervan fields either along specified routes off the A37 or at the Bath & West Showground (A371) according to the type of ticket purchased.
East Campervan field access is via a one way system that is reversed for the Exit on Sunday 29th June at approximately 14:00. From this time on Sunday to around 21:00 on Monday 30th June, the exiting traffic means that no access to the East campervans can be allowed. Please do not leave East Campervans and expect to get back to the fields or arrange for pick- ups on Sunday 29th June or Monday 30th June unless you are happy to park in the car parks and wait to gain vehicle access after 21:00 on Monday evening.
Please note that for hire caravans can only be delivered to the East Campervan fields by prior agreement with the Festival before the Festival opens. If a hire vehicle is over 8m it will be refused access. Hire vehicles over 8m can only be delivered to the Bath and West from when the access is open (there is no pre delivery). Make sure that you have the appropriate ticket for the vehicle that you are bringing or you will be refused access.
Campervan and caravan FAQs
Can I park my campervan/ caravan in the main car parks?
Do I need a special ticket for the camper/caravan fields?
Does every person staying in our campervan/caravan need a Festival ticket?
How do our friends gain access to the campervan fields if they travel separately?
What counts as 'suitable fitted facilities' in a camper/Caravan?
What will happen to my vehicle if it is considered unsuitable for the campervan fields?
What facilities are provided in the camper/caravan fields?
Is electricity available?
Does the Festival provide campers or caravans for hire on site?
Can I hire a camper/caravan myself and bring it to the Festival?
Can the Festival supply details of camper/caravan hire companies we can use?
How do we gain access to the campervan/caravan fields on arrival?
When can we gain vehicular access to the camper/caravan fields?
How are pitches allocated?
Can our group of friends have pitches next to each other as a group?
How far is it from the campervan site to the Festival?
I have difficulty walking a long distance - can I be placed nearer the field entrance?
How do I arrange for my hired camper/caravan to get on and off site?
Can my car be kept beside the caravan in the campervan/caravan field?
If I am travelling in a separate vehicle to the caravan/campervan, can I park in the campervan fields?
Can I pitch a tent beside my caravan/campervan?
Can I bring my trailer tent?
Can I bring my roof tent?
Can I bring a winnebago or extra large caravan?
Will I be able to put up an awning? Can I sleep under the awning?
How will I know where to place my campervan/caravan/towing car/awning/tent in the field?
Can I bring a generator?
Can I bring glass bottles with me in my camper/caravan?
Campervan/Caravan T&Cs
Can I park my campervan/ caravan in the main car parks?
No. Sleeping in vehicles in the car parks is strictly forbidden, as it is contrary to our licence. Regular checks will be made by Security patrols. Separate fields for ticket holders to park campervans and caravans are available.
Do I need a special ticket for the campervan/caravan fields?
Yes. Campervan/caravan tickets to park in these fields are available for an additional fee of £200 for a single pitch (all Campervan sites) or £300 for a large pitch (at Bath and West only). Please note that there are 4 options of campervan ticket available – General or Quiet/Hire (Single) pitches on Blue Route on the East of the site; and General (Single and Large pitches) at the Bath and West Showground (White Route). See the table above for details. Please ensure you follow the correct route according to the colour of your ticket.
Does every person staying in our campervan/caravan need a Festival ticket?
Yes. No one will be allowed into the Campervan/Caravan fields without a weekend Festival ticket.
How do our friends gain access to the campervan fields if they travel separately?
If your friends are arriving separately to your campervan or caravan they will not be able to gain vehicular access to the campervan fields (as only one car is permitted on the pitch). They will need to buy a car park ticket to park in the public car parks, or travel by public transport, and make their way to the campervan fields on foot via the pedestrian gates. For the Bath and West Showground follow White Route, or catch a free shuttle bus from the Festival Bus Station.
What counts as 'suitable fitted facilities' in a camper/caravan?
Your campervan/caravan MUST have purpose-built fitted sleeping facilities and either fitted cooking or washing facilities. Any converted vehicles must clearly be live-in vehicles. This does not mean simply a van with a piece of foam cut to size for a bed, and a bucket for washing!
A team of campsite staff and security staff will check that campervans and caravans coming into these fields have bona fide living accommodation. No other vehicles will be let onto these fields under any circumstances – not even late replacement vehicles in the case of a breakdown – sorry.
What will happen to my vehicle if it is considered unsuitable for the campervan fields?
Unsuitable vehicles, including unconverted vans, with tickets for the camper van fields, will not be allowed entry and will be sent to one of the festival car parks – and, as it is contrary to our licence, security patrols will not permit sleeping in any vehicles in these car parks.
What facilities are provided in the campervan/caravan fields?
Facilities consist of water, waste-water containers, toilets, and a food trader open 24 hours a day. The fields are surrounded by fencing and patrolled by security staff.
Is electricity available?
There is no electricity provided for field users.
Does the Festival provide campers or caravans for hire on site?
The Festival does not rent caravans to ticket holders, or have any arrangements with contractors to rent caravans.
Can I hire a campervan/caravan myself and bring it to the Festival?
Yes, provided you have purchased a weekend Festival ticket and a campervan ticket.
Can the Festival supply details of campervan/caravan hire companies we can use?
The Festival holds no such details, and is unable to provide any information regarding hire. Please make your own enquiries. If hiring campervans or caravans it is your responsibility to check out the company and make sure that they are a legitimate company providing safe vehicles to the relevant standards for the hire industry. Glastonbury are not responsible for any hire company failing to fulfil their contractual obligations.
How do we gain access to the campervan/caravan fields on arrival?
For the East (Blue) for both Quiet and General Campervans approach the Festival using the A37 from the North or South and the A361 from the east and follow the Blue Campervan signs.
For the White Campervan Site which is situated on the A371 approach from the A37 and turn onto the A371 by following the white campervan signs.
A campervan/caravan ticket with your specific routing colour will be sent to you with your Festival tickets, which will permit access to the Pylle Road via the Blue Route or the White Route from the A371 and allow you to park in the appropriate campervan/caravan fields.
You will need to display the coloured routing element in your window on approaching the site. You will then be issued with your pass on site once your campervan/caravan has been checked and approved by the campervan/caravan field stewards.
When can we gain vehicular access to the camper/caravan fields?
First entry is from 12:00 hours Tuesday 24th June until 14:00 hours Sunday 29th June. There will be NO access to the campervan fields prior to noon, Tuesday 24th June. Please be considerate of local residents and businesses. In order to keep the roads clear, there will be no queueing facility prior to gates opening. Any vehicles arriving before noon will be turned away. Please be aware that the Police will have officers patrolling and you may get a ticket for obstruction of the highway if you block any of the main roads locally to the site, be considerate and stay away from the area until the gates are about to open.
To enable traffic to exit the site, Blue Route becomes one-way outbound from 14:00 hours Sunday afternoon until 21:00 hours on Monday evening to enable all the campervans/caravans and site traffic to exit.
As a result, no vehicles can access the campervan/caravan fields during this time. Please do not leave the campervan/caravan fields in your vehicle and expect to get back to the fields during these times, or arrange for others to pick up during this period, as access will be refused.
Return entry (for collections) from the East Campervan Fields is from 21:00 hours Monday 30th June 2025.
How are pitches allocated?
Pitches are allocated on a first come first served basis.
Can our group of friends have pitches next to each other as a group.
Sorry, we can’t hold pitches so if you want to park next to each other you will need to arrive together (and have booked in the same campervan section).
How far is it from the campervan site to the Festival?
We’d estimate it is approximately a 10 minute walk from the East campervan fields to the outer areas of the Festival, and 20 minutes to the main stages, at an average pace (longer when the site is busy). However timing will depend on where in the fields you are placed as some fields are much further out than others. The site map will give you a general idea of the distances involved and your nearest access points.
A free shuttle bus is available 24 hours from the Bath and West Showground to the Festival Bus Station.
I have difficulty walking a long distance - can I be placed nearer the field entrance?
Due to the location and distance to the campervan fields we recommend that anyone with a mobility issue should contact the Accessibility Team to discuss what options and facilities are available to them. Please note the access facilities are for Festival goers with permanent disabilities, so broken legs, recent injuries or those who are pregnant do not qualify.
How do I arrange for my hired campervan/caravan to get on and off site?
We have developed a system with the contractors delivering the campervans/caravans so they can use the hire document/delivery note to bring the vehicle on to the Festival site. The contractor will need to arrange access to the fields by contacting the Off-Site Manager via campervans@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk. The ticket holder then uses the campervan/caravan permit to get into the site when they arrive later.
After the Festival, it is not possible to gain access to the site to pick up a caravan between 14:00 hours on Sunday afternoon and 21:00 hours on Monday evening. Campervan fields’ staff leave on Monday when the there are no queues for the exit. After this time caravans can be left until Tuesday midday for a contractor to pick up. All caravans whether delivered prior to the campervan area opening, during the time the fields are open and left for collection are left at the hirer/providers risk. The Festival accepts no responsibility for any caravan within the campervan fields which remains with the owner or hirer at all times.
Can my car be kept beside the caravan in the campervan/caravan field?
Yes, there is space for one car (the towing vehicle) to be parked beside or in front of the caravan. However, any other member of your party arriving separately by car will need to purchase a car parking ticket for public car park use. Any additional vehicles to the towing vehicle would need to be parked in one of the public car parks.
If I am travelling in a separate vehicle to the caravan/campervan can I park in the campervan fields?
There is space for one towing vehicle to be parked beside or in front of the caravan. However, any other member of your party arriving separately by car will need to purchase a car parking ticket for the public car parks. Any additional vehicles to the towing vehicle would need to be parked in one of the public car parks.
Can I pitch a tent beside my caravan/campervan?
Only where the tent will fit within the allocated pitch size and not be adjacent to a vehicle. We are required to keep sleeping accommodation away from vehicles and keep clear spaces between vehicles and tents as part of the fire safety requirements from the fire officer.
Can I bring my trailer tent?
Yes, as long as it is a purpose-built, manufacturer-made trailer tent.
Can I bring my roof tent?
Yes, as long as it is a purpose-built, manufacturer-made roof tent, and you bring cooking and washing facilities with it.
Can I bring a winnebago or extra large caravan?
Yes. However, for all vehicles longer than 8 metres it will be necessary to purchase a large caravan/campervan ticket (£300), to cover the extra space required. Please note large pitches are only available at the Bath and West Showground, from which there is a free shuttle to the Festival bus station near PGA.
Will I be able to put up an awning? Can I sleep under the awning?
Yes, manufacturers’ awnings are acceptable if they fit within the pitch size of 8m x 7m and can be slept in if they are a manufacturers’ annex or inner tent, but please make a parking or campsite steward aware if you are sleeping in the awning. There must be space of at least 3m between your awning and your neighbour’s camper van or vehicle so please consider this when planning your Festival set up. Use of an awning may mean that there is no space for a car!
How will I know where to place my campervan/caravan/towing car/awning/tent in the field?
Stewards will be on hand in the campervan fields to advise on siting vehicles. It is not possible to reserve a specific area – space is allocated on a first come first served basis. Caravans, their towing cars and campervans will be parked in rows, as designated by the fire officers, with a 4 metre fire road between the rows. Each pitch will be 7 metres wide by 8 metres long. For vehicles longer than 8 metres it will be necessary to purchase a large caravan/campervan ticket (£300 only available at the Bath and West), to cover the extra space required.
Can I bring a generator?
No. Absolutely no generators are to be brought on site.
Can I bring glass bottles with me in my campervan/caravan?
Glass is not permitted anywhere on Festival land. The usual Festival confiscations policy applies to campervans and caravans. The security staff will also check for any other items not permitted on site, as specified in the terms and conditions on weekend tickets. Security staff will confiscate any such items and may refuse entry to the site. Domestic items that will stay within the campervan are unlikely to be confiscated, however we would advise not to bring anything valuable just in case. The decision of the security team will be final.
Please ensure your caravan and campervan field ticket is displayed in the centre of your windscreen at least 10 miles away from the site.
TERMS & CONDITIONS FOR CARAVANS AND CAMPERVANS
The following Terms & Conditions apply in conjunction with the General Admission T&Cs. Please visit the website for further information: (glastonburyfestivals/info/tickets)
To comply with the Festival’s license, and in the interests of safety as well as the welfare and goodwill of other Festival-goers and local residents, please adhere to the following:
• Only vehicles with fitted sleeping, cooking and or washing facilities may use these fields.
• Each Caravan or Campervan must have a Campervan ticket and each person within the vehicle must have a valid Weekend Festival ticket.
• Vehicles are parked within an approximate 7m wide x 8m deep pitch, with a 4m fire lane between rows, as directed by Parking Stewards.
• Only one Campervan/or Caravan with car may be parked in each approximate 7m x 8m pitch.
• An additional small tent may be pitched in the space behind the Campervan/Caravan, as directed by parking stewards, if space is available, however space is very limited.
• Vehicles over 8m long require an oversized/large pitch (16m x 7m) and must be sited at the Bath & West Showground (White route).
• No vehicles are to be parked or tents pitched in the fire lanes at any time.
• No trading of any kind is permitted from caravans or campervans.
• No sound systems are to be operated in the caravan/campervan fields. Anyone found operating such systems may be liable to confiscation of the system.
• Fireworks, generators, glass containers, potential weapons, portable laser equipment including laser pens or any illegal or offensive items or substances are not permitted in these fields and will be confiscated. No animals (except guide dogs) are permitted anywhere at the Festival. Vehicles in these fields are liable to search by security staff.
• All waste-water must be put in the containers provided. It is illegal to pour waste-water onto the ground, into a sump or into a stream because of the danger to the environment. This will be monitored by the Environment Agency.
• All litter must be cleared and put into litter bins or recycling bins.
• Open fires are not permitted. Small barbecues can be used in these fields, but they must be at least 3m away from any vehicle and must be on stand or off the ground.
• Towing vehicles must remain with caravans, not parked elsewhere.
• Self-driven vehicles must be clear of the East and Bath&West Campervan fields by 6pm on Monday 30th June. Any remaining vehicles will be removed. Hire caravans and collections can take place on Tuesday but any unit or property left onsite is left at the owner’s risk.
• On Sunday 29th June, at midday, the one-way system will be reversed to allow Festival-goers to leave the area. Entry to the caravan/campervan fields will not be permitted after midday. There will be no inbound access to the caravan parks until 21:00 on Monday evening.
• Users of these fields must not inconvenience local residents by trying to use the village for access. This will not be permitted. Please stick to signposted campervan routing.
• Please respect the Countryside Code at all times.
• Security staff may evict those that do not adhere to the conditions above, and may also confiscate their Festival weekend tickets and any contraband items.
• The Festival and Premises License Holder accept no responsibility for any loss or damages to campervans or caravans (whether hired or privately owned). Any insurance or deposit claims arising from your campervan/caravan use at the Festival should be directed to your insurers or campervan/caravan hire company.
• Campervan/caravan tickets are personalised to the named campervan/caravan ticket booker and are strictly non-transferable. If the person who books the campervan ticket subsequently cancels their ticket booking (prior to May 9th), the campervan ticket will also be cancelled. If someone else within the original booking would like to take over the campervan ticket, the booking can be rebooked with their registration as long as this is requested at the point of cancellation (£25 admin fee will apply), but the booking cannot be reassigned retrospectively or transferred to someone who wasn’t in the original booking.
• Whilst every effort will be made to accommodate campervans in your preferred site, the Festival reserves the right to provide alternative facilities in the event of adverse conditions.
As part of our continued commitment to reducing waste at the Festival, we are pleased to confirm the return of the Worthy View and Sticklinch campsites.
These campsites offer unpretentious, custom-made and pre-erected Festival accommodation a short walk from the Festival site for those who would like to have a tent ready and waiting for them on arrival at the Festival, and nothing to carry home but their bags.
Accommodation options will go on sale at 12noon (GMT) on Thursday 28th November 2024 exclusively at glastonbury.seetickets.com.
Worthy View is located south of the Festival site, on Pennard Hill.
Sticklinch campsite is on the former site of the West Campervan Fields, which was introduced for the 2020 Festival.
Worthy View, one of the two official Glastonbury Festival offsite campsites, will once again be back in 2025, offering unpretentious, custom-made and pre-erected Festival accommodation a short walk from the Festival site (up the hill above the Stone Circle field) for those who would like to have a tent ready and waiting for them on arrival at the Festival, and nothing to carry home but their bags. The Worthy View car park is in a dedicated field, a short walk from the accommodation.
Worthy View bookings will be taken exclusively by the Festival’s nominated booking agency, See Tickets.
Accommodation options will go on sale at 12noon (GMT) on Thursday 28th November 2024 exclusively at glastonbury.seetickets.com.
In order to make an accommodation booking you must already have a valid ticket booking for Glastonbury 2025.
All prices are for five nights – Wednesday June 25th to Sunday June 29th, inclusive. Prices do not include Festival tickets. Everyone who wishes to stay at Worthy View must have a valid Festival ticket.
To make a booking you will be required to enter the registration number you used when booking your Festival ticket. Please note you will need to present this ticket on arrival when checking in at your accommodation.
You may book up to 2 units of accommodation per booking. Car parking tickets (£55) will also be available to book when making an accommodation booking. Please note that if you are staying at Worthy View and wish to arrive by car, you must buy a Worthy View Car Park Ticket – not a general Festival Car Park Ticket.
Having booked accommodation via See Tickets, you will receive a confirmation email to confirm your reservation within 24 hours, and will receive a follow-up message from the Festival in late May/early June 2025 with further details of your accommodation and access information.
Should you be unable to attend the Festival, or should you wish to cancel your accommodation booking you may do so up until May 9th, after which time your reservation will be non-refundable. All refunds prior to May 9th will incur a £25 administration fee per unit.
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Worthy View Booking info
WHERE IS WORTHY VIEW?
Worthy View is located south of the Festival site, on Pennard Hill. Pedestrian access to the Festival (between the Stone Circle Field and the Tipi Field) is via a footpath at a gradient which is not suitable for wheelchairs or children’s pushchairs.
Pedestrian access from the Festival site to Worthy View is via a footpath with steps at a steep gradient which is not suitable for wheelchairs, perambulators or child buggies.
Vehicle access to the Worthy View car parks is via red route (A361) if approaching from the North, and via Blue Route (A37) if approaching from the South. Festival goers at Worthy View will benefit from designated car parks, in the adjacent field to the campsite.
ADDITIONAL BOOKING INFORMATION
To make a booking you will be required to enter the registration number you used when booking your Festival ticket. Please note you will need to present this ticket on arrival when checking in at your accommodation.
You may book up to 2 units of accommodation per booking. Car parking tickets for Worthy View will also be available to book when making an accommodation booking. Only those staying at Worthy View will be able to access the Worthy View car park.
When booking, you will be asked to supply the names of each person staying in your accommodation. You will also be asked to provide some information about your expected day, time and method of arrival at the campsite.
Having booked accommodation via See Tickets, you will receive a confirmation email to confirm your reservation within 24 hours, and will receive a follow-up message from the Festival in late May/early June 2025 with further details of your accommodation and access information.
Should you be unable to attend the Festival, or should you wish to cancel your accommodation booking, you may do so up until May 9th, after which time your reservation will be non-refundable. All refunds prior to May 9th will incur a £25 administration fee per unit.
See Tickets is the only company permitted to sell accommodation for Glastonbury Festival. No other site or agency will be allocated accommodation. Any other company or individual claiming to sell official Glastonbury Festival accommodation is bogus.
BOOKING REFUND PROTECTION
Accommodation bookings are refundable up until 9th May 2025. Optional TicketPlan Booking Refund Protection for accommodation bookings is available when making your booking.
Booking Refund Protection provides cover for a range of unforeseen circumstances that may prevent you being able to stay in the accommodation you have booked. A summary of the Terms and Conditions can be found on the booking site. Please note that this Booking Refund Protection offers cover for your accommodation only in event that the lead booker is unable to attend. The price of TicketPlan Booking Refund Protection is dependent on the type of accommodation booked. Click here to download a PDF of the TicketPlan Booking Refund Protection Summary. A list of TicketPlan prices can be found below:
BOOKING ENQUIRIES
All bookings are taken by See Tickets. The Festival does not have access to See Tickets’ booking system or individual booking information, so if you have an enquiry specific to your booking, then please contact See Tickets via their Customer Service Page.
Once you have booked your accommodation, you can also access information regarding your ticket booking, including details of ticket dispatch, online at glastonbury.seetickets.com/customerservice using your booking reference number and email address or postcode.
If you require general information about the campsites (that isn’t related to a specific booking), please find the information in this page. If you cannot find the information you require here, please contact the Festival Office, who will be able to assist you with general information about Worthy View.
CAR PARK TICKETS
Car Park tickets for Worthy View will only be available to those with an accommodation booking at the applicable campsite. Car Park tickets for Worthy View will cost £55 plus £2.75 postage and packaging fee per order.
Only those staying at Worthy View will be able to access the Worthy View car park. There is not a drop off point at Worthy View, if you are planning to be dropped at Worthy View, please make use of the Drop and Collect point from which there is a free shuttle to the Festival bus station and an onward shuttle to Worthy View.
Worthy View car parking tickets will not be available to purchase on arrival, so if you are intending to use the Worthy View car park, please ensure you have pre-purchased your car parking ticket in advance.
You may also be asked for proof of your accommodation booking as you arrive at Worthy View, please ensure you have this to hand!
CAR PARK TICKET DISPATCH
If you book a car park ticket for Worthy View this will be sent out by See Tickets in early June 2025.
Tickets will be sent out by Royal Mail. Tickets will be sent to the address specified when booking.
It is expected that you will receive your tickets at least 7 days before the Festival starts.
Information about the dispatch of your tickets will be available through See Tickets who will email you with your tracking reference. You can track your ticket order via https://www.royalmail.com by entering your tracking reference number.
You can also obtain your tracking reference via See Tickets’ order tracker – glastonbury.seetickets.com. To access the order tracker you will require your email address and booking reference number.
Car Park tickets for International bookers within the EU will be sent out by registered international post, unless specified otherwise. You can track your international ticket order via www.royalmail.com by entering your tracking number which is available via See Tickets’ order tracker. To access the order tracker you will require your email address and booking reference number. If it is likely you will set off for the Festival more than 28 days before the event commences, please select the option for ‘Box Office Collection’ when paying your ticket balance.
GROUP BOOKINGS
You may book two units of accommodation per transaction. Where possible the Festival will endeavour to meet requests for friends and family groups to be located together if booking the same accommodation type and campsite, however this service cannot be guaranteed.
ID
You do not need ID to enter Worthy View, other than your Festival tickets. However you will need to provide the names of everyone staying in your tents when booking, who will each need a Festival ticket. Final confirmation of all the resident names will be required at least a week before the Festival.
ACCESS INFORMATION
There are no separate weekend tickets for customers with access requirements. Anyone wanting to stay at Worthy View must have secured a ticket in one of the recent sales.
Pedestrian access from the Festival site to Worthy View is via a footpath with steps at a steep gradient which is not suitable for wheelchairs, perambulators or child buggies.
If you have mobility concerns, then staying in Worthy View may result in limited access to the Festival.
There will be an accessible toilet at Worthy View, however additional facilities such as accessible showers, medicine storage, wheelchair or medical charging are not possible on this site.
There is no shuttle/ transport service available directly from Worthy View onto the Festival site, there is however a shuttle from the Festival Bus Station for customers that arrive by coach or bus.
For information on all the access facilities available at the Festival please contact the Access Team on accessiblity@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk or refer to the Access Information page on the Festival website.
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Worthy view accommodation options
TENT TYPES AND PRICES
SCOUT TENTS
The traditional scout tent with a modern twist, these high-quality bespoke tents designed especially for Glastonbury Festival are custom-made in Yorkshire by BCT (makers of quality tents in the UK for over 100 years). Guaranteed to withstand the British elements, by combining the best of British steel framework with all-seasons fabric technology.
2 person pre-erected classic scout style tent. £455 for 5 nights.
(2.75m x 2.7m x 1.8m tall. The sleeping compartment at its shortest is 2.3m x 1.9m. At its longest is 2.3m x 2.4m.)
4 person pre-erected classic scout style tent. £825 for 5 nights.
4.6m x 3.3m x 1.9m tall. The sleeping compartment at its shortest is 2.8m x 2m. At its longest is 2.8m x 2.75m. The 4 person model includes a retractable partition screen to enable Festival goers to choose between sharing one large (2.8m x 2.75m) bedroom, or two double bedrooms (2m x 1.4m each, with maximum head room of 1.85m.)
6 person pre-erected large classic scout style tent with two large bedrooms. £1,250 for 5 nights.
The 6 person model includes a retractable partition screen to enable Festival goers to choose between sharing one large bedroom (4m x 2.5m), or two spaces (of 2m x 2.5m). This tent is just over 2m tall in the centre; and features a utility area and porch canopy, to provide additional luggage and boot space.
8 person pre-erected large classic scout style tent, with 4 separate double bedrooms and a central utility area for boot and luggage storage. £1,550 for 5 nights.
THE GLASTONBURY BELL
Produced exclusively for Glastonbury Festival by Yorkshire based BCT, this 4m diameter / 2.4m tall bell tent will give you all the fun of staying in a bell tent, without having to navigate guy ropes, or a central pole. It also benefits from being fully lined with a cotton inner.
4 person Glastonbury Bell Tent. £975 for 5 nights
All prices are inclusive of VAT. Prices do not include Festival tickets.
Prices are for tent hire only – you will need to bring your own camping beds/bedding.
As part of our continued commitment to reducing waste at the Festival, we are pleased to confirm the return of the Sticklinch campsite on the former site of the West Campervan Fields which was introduced for the 2020 Festival.
Like our existing campsite at Worthy View, Sticklinch offers unpretentious, custom-made and pre-erected Festival accommodation a short walk from the Festival site for those who would like to have a tent ready and waiting for them on arrival at the Festival, and nothing to carry home but their bags.
The Sticklinch pre-erected campsite will again be home to a range of Podpads, Yurts and Bell Tents, as well as a limited number of the Festival’s signature scout-style tents, and offers a more gently undulating walk to the Festival site, ideal for those who find the climb to Worthy View challenging.
A very limited amount of parking is available a short walk from the accommodation, with a reserved area for Blue Badge holders, however we would encourage guests at Sticklinch to travel by public transport wherever possible, and make their way to Sticklinch on foot through the Festival site.
Bookings for Sticklinch Campsite will be taken exclusively by the Festival’s nominated booking agency, See Tickets.
Accommodation options will go on sale at 12noon (GMT) on Thursday 28th November 2024 exclusively at glastonbury.seetickets.com.
In order to have made an accommodation booking for the Sticklinch campsite, you must already have a valid ticket booking for Glastonbury 2025.
All prices are for five nights – Wednesday June 25th to Sunday June 29th, inclusive. Prices do not include Festival tickets. Everyone who wishes to stay at Sticklinch must have a valid Festival ticket.
Please note some structure types have very limited availability and are expected to sell out very quickly.
To make a booking you will be required to enter the registration number you used when booking your Festival ticket. Please note you will need to present this ticket on arrival when checking in at your accommodation.
You may book up to 2 units of accommodation per booking. A limited number of car parking passes for Sticklinch will also be available to book when making an accommodation booking.
Having booked accommodation via See Tickets, you will receive a confirmation email to confirm your reservation within 24 hours, and will receive a follow-up message from the Festival in late May/early June 2025 with further details of your accommodation and access information.
Should you be unable to attend the Festival, or should you wish to cancel your accommodation booking for the Sticklinch campsite you may do so up until May 9th, after which time your reservation will be non-refundable. All refunds prior to May 9th will incur a £25 administration fee per unit.
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STICKLINCH BOOKING INFO
WHERE IS THE STICKLINCH CAMPSITE?
The Sticklinch campsite is located West of the Festival site, in the former West Campervan fields. Pedestrian access to the site through the former West Campervan Pedestrian Gate - now called Gully Gate - (between the Bailey’s and South Park camping grounds) is via a footpath with a gentle gradient across Rigg’s Field campsite.
ADDITIONAL BOOKING INFORMATION
To make a booking you will be required to enter the registration number you used when booking your Festival ticket. Please note you will need to present this ticket on arrival when checking in at your accommodation.
You may book up to 2 units of accommodation per booking. Car parking tickets for Sticklinch will also be available to book when making an accommodation booking.
When booking, you will be asked to supply the names of each person staying in your accommodation. You will also be asked to provide some information about your expected day, time and method of arrival at the campsite.
Having booked accommodation via See Tickets, you will receive a confirmation email to confirm your reservation within 24 hours, and will receive a follow-up message from the Festival in late May/early June 2025 with further details of your accommodation and access information.
Should you be unable to attend the Festival, or should you wish to cancel your accommodation booking, you may do so up until May 9th, after which time your reservation will be non-refundable. All refunds prior to May 9th will incur a £25 administration fee per unit.
See Tickets is the only company permitted to sell accommodation for Glastonbury Festival. No other site or agency will be allocated accommodation. Any other company or individual claiming to sell official Glastonbury Festival accommodation is bogus.
BOOKING REFUND PROTECTION
Accommodation bookings are refundable up until 9th May 2025. Optional TicketPlan Booking Refund Protection for accommodation bookings is available when making your booking.
Booking Refund Protection provides cover for a range of unforeseen circumstances that may prevent you being able to stay in the accommodation you have booked. A summary of the Terms and Conditions can be found on the booking site. Please note that this Booking Refund Protection offers cover for your accommodation only in event that the lead booker is unable to attend. The price of TicketPlan Booking Refund Protection is dependent on the type of accommodation booked.
Click here to download a PDF of the TicketPlan Booking Refund Protection Summary. A list of TicketPlan prices can be found below:
BOOKING ENQUIRIES
All bookings are taken by See Tickets. The Festival does not have access to See Tickets’ booking system or individual booking information, so if you have an enquiry specific to your booking, then please contact See Tickets via their Customer Service Page.
Once you have booked your accommodation, you can also access information regarding your ticket booking, including details of ticket dispatch, online at https://glastonbury.seetickets.com using your booking reference number and email address or postcode.
If you require general information about the campsites (that isn’t related to a specific booking), please find the information in this page. If you cannot find the information you require here, please contact the Festival Office, who will be able to assist you with general information about Sticklinch.
CAR PARK TICKETS
A very limited amount of parking is available a short walk from the accommodation, however we would encourage guests at Sticklinch to travel by public transport wherever possible, and make their way to Sticklinch on foot through the Festival site. Car Park tickets for Sticklinch will cost £55 plus £2.75 postage and packaging fee per order.
Sticklinch car parking tickets will not be available to purchase on arrival, so if you are intending to use the Sticklinch car park, please pre-purchase your car parking ticket in advance.
CAR PARK TICKET DISPATCH
If you book a car park ticket for Sticklinch, this will be sent out by See Tickets in early June 2025.
Tickets will be sent out by Royal Mail. Tickets will be sent to the address specified when booking.
It is expected that you will receive your tickets at least 7 days before the Festival starts.
Information about the dispatch of your tickets will be available through See Tickets who will email you with your tracking reference. You can track your ticket order via www.royalmail.com by entering your tracking reference number.
You can also obtain your tracking reference via See Tickets’ order tracker – https://glastonbury.seetickets.com. To access the order tracker you will require your email address and booking reference number.
Car Park tickets for International bookers within the EU will be sent out by registered international post, unless specified otherwise. You can track your international ticket order via www.royalmail.com by entering your tracking number which is available via See Tickets’ order tracker. To access the order tracker you will require your email address and booking reference number. If it is likely you will set off for the Festival more than 28 days before the event commences, please contact the team at See Tickets via their Customer Service Page.
GROUP BOOKINGS
You may book two units of accommodation per transaction. Where possible the Festival will endeavour to meet requests for friends and family groups to be located together if booking the same accommodation type and campsite, however this service cannot be guaranteed.
ID
You do not need ID to enter the Sticklinch campsites, other than your Festival tickets. However you will need to provide the names of everyone staying in your tents when booking, who will each need a Festival ticket. Final confirmation of all the resident names will be required at least a week before the Festival.
ACCESS INFORMATION
There are no separate weekend tickets for those with access requirements. Anyone wanting to stay at Sticklinch must have secured a ticket in one of the recent sales.
Access from Sticklinch into the Festival site is at a gentle gradient, which is accessible for wheelchairs, perambulators or child buggies.
There is no shuttle/ transport service available directly from Sticklinch onto the Festival site, or from the Festival Bus Station. Access to Sticklinch from the Festival Bus Station is via Pedestrian Gate A and is a distance of approximately 2.3km.
Parking at Sticklinch is limited but Blue Badge / accessible parking will be available. Customers that require this parking must arrange this via the Festivals Access Team.
There will be a wheelchair accessible toilet and shower, as well as charging facilities for wheelchairs and essential medical equipment. Access to these facilities must be arranged via the Festivals Access Team before the 30th April 2025.
For information on all the access facilities available at the Festival please contact the Access Team on accessiblity@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk or refer to the Access Information page on the Festival website.
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Sticklinch Accommodation Options
TENT TYPES AND PRICES
All prices are inclusive of VAT. Prices do not include Festival tickets.
Please note prices are for tent hire only – pre-erected camping options do not include mattresses (with the exception of PodPads) or bedding, which you will need to bring with you.
* denotes tents with very limited availability
PODPADS, BUNKPADS AND BELLEPADS
In order to keep prices to a minimum all of the Podpad/Bunkpad/Octopad options are offered as a basic version of Podpads normal range, so they do not include solar lights/power nor bedding.
2 Person Basic Podpad (sleeps up to 2 people) £575 for 5 nights*
A small (2.4m x 1.8m x 1.57m tall) but perfectly formed lockable plywood structure. Weatherproof, with a solid carpeted floor and raised beds with inflated air mattresses, creating useful storage space underneath. Bedding is not provided.
Bunkpad (sleeps up to 4) £975 for 5 nights*
A lockable plywood structure (2.4m x 3m x 2.1m tall), with solid floor and covering it comes with 2 sets of hand built bunk beds, having slatted bases and foam mattresses. Four keys will be supplied for each unit. Bedding is not provided.
BELLEPADS
2 Person (3m) Bellepad £550 for 5 nights*
Brightly coloured stripy versions of the traditional strong canvas bell tents with heavy-duty waterproof groundsheet. Bedding is not provided.
4 Person (4m) Bellepad £975 for 5 nights*
Brightly coloured stripy versions of the traditional strong canvas bell tents with heavy-duty waterproof groundsheet. Bedding is not provided.
6 Person (5m) Bellepad £1,395 for 5 nights*
Brightly coloured stripy versions of the traditional strong canvas bell tents with heavy-duty waterproof groundsheet. Bedding is not provided.
6 Person Octopad (5.5m) £1,395 for 5 nights*
A spacious structure (5.5m diameter) with solid floor and walls, lockable door and 9’ high canvas roof fitted over tipi style poles. The ‘Octopad’ comes with 4 hand-built beds with foam mattresses and two additional foam mattresses for the 5th & 6th guests. Bedding is not provided.
TRADITIONAL HAND-CRAFTED YURTS & BELL TENTS
Unique and beautiful Mongolian style yurts, traditional bell tents and modern tipi-inspired tents with groundsheets, offered unadorned, to keep prices to a minimum. Options available for 2 – 4 people. Please note bedding is not provided.
2 person 9ft Yurt – £595 for 5 nights*. 9ft diameter, 5ft 6″ height
4 person 12ft Yurt – £1,050 for 5 nights*. 12ft diameter, 6ft 8″ height
6 person 16ft Yurt – £1,395 for 5 nights*. 16ft diameter
4 person Traditional Bell Tent – £975 for 5 nights*. 14ft diameter, 8ft height
4 person Tipi Tent – £975 for 5 nights*. 16ft diameter, 10ft height
SCOUT TENTS
The traditional scout tent with a modern twist, these high-quality bespoke tents designed especially for Glastonbury Festival are custom-made in Yorkshire by BCT (makers of quality tents in the UK for over 100 years). Guaranteed to withstand the British elements, by combining the best of British steel framework with all-seasons fabric technology.
2 person pre-erected classic scout style tent. £455 for 5 nights.
(2.75m x 2.7m x 1.8m tall. The sleeping compartment at its shortest is 2.3m x 1.9m. At its longest is 2.3m x 2.4m.)
6 person pre-erected large classic scout style tent with two large bedrooms. £1,250 for 5 nights.
The 6 person model includes a retractable partition screen to enable Festival goers to choose between sharing one large bedroom (4m x 2.5m), or two spaces (of 2m x 2.5m). This tent is just over 2m tall in the centre; and features a utility area and porch canopy, to provide additional luggage and boot space.
8 person Safari Tent. £1,650 for 5 nights.
THE GLASTONBURY BELL
Produced exclusively for Glastonbury Festival by Yorkshire based BCT, this 4m diameter / 2.4m tall bell tent will give you all the fun of staying in a bell tent, without having to navigate guy ropes, or a central pole. It also benefits from being fully lined with a cotton inner.
4 person Glastonbury Bell Tent. £975 for 5 nights
All prices are inclusive of VAT. Prices do not include Festival tickets.
Prices are for tent hire only – you will need to bring your own camping beds/bedding.
* denotes tents with very limited availability
PRE-ERECETED CAMPSITES TERMS AND CONDITIONS
OFFICIAL PRE-ERECTED CAMPSITES ACCOMMODATION BOOKING TERMS & CONDITIONS
In making an accommodation booking for the Glastonbury Festival official pre-erected campsites (“Official Campsite(s)”), you are agreeing to the code of conduct laid out by Glastonbury Festival Events Ltd (“GFEL”) and the below terms. These terms and conditions expressly provide that the accommodation booked may not be used in connection with any Commercial Activity on or off site. All Commercial Activity must be separately agreed with the Festival management (“Management”) and will be subject to a fee. You also agree that you and all ticket holders in your party will behave responsibly at your designated Official Campsite and not cause any nuisance to other guests or Official Campsite staff. By making this booking, you acknowledge your agreement to the following terms:
1. All persons aged 13 or over occupying the accommodation booked must have valid full weekend Festival tickets, and as such, agree to the full terms and conditions for ticket holders, which can be found at www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk
2. Names of all accommodation residents must be supplied when booking, with final confirmation due no later than one week prior to the Festival. Everyone staying in the accommodation will need to present their tickets to receive their Festival wristbands.
3. Accommodation bookings are non-transferable. After 23:59 May 9th 2025 no refunds will be made other than in the event of the cancellation of the Glastonbury Festival 2025. Any cancellations prior to 23:59 May 9th 2025 will incur a £25 administration charge per unit.
4. The Premises Licence Holder (hereafter “PLH”) and/or GFEL reserves the right to
(a) refuse admission in any circumstances.
(b) evict any person breaching the terms and conditions of entry, committing a criminal offence, behaving in a manner considered by GFEL or the PLH to be disorderly or in a way that has an adverse effect on public safety, or behaving in an anti-social manner or in a way that causes a public nuisance.
(c) evict all members of any group of persons where GFEL or the PLH consider that group is behaving in a persistent anti-social manner.
(d) in order to facilitate the security, safety and comfort of all guests, refuse entry to ticket holders who attempt to enter the licenced Festival site or Official Campsites or any surrounding land used by the Festival (including car parks) that constitutes the Festival footprint, (hereafter ‘the Festival Site”) with contraband goods and/or prohibited articles. Please refer to www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk for information on articles which will not be allowed onsite.
(e) in its sole discretion, remove without notice any ticket holder(s) who are engaged in anti-social behaviour or are rude or abusive to other guests or Official Campsite staff.
5. Admission to Official Campsites and to the Festival Site is at the ticketholder’s own risk. GFEL and the PLH will not be held liable for any loss, injuries or damages sustained at the event including damage, theft or losses to property and motor vehicles, if the cause is due to the negligence of the ticket holder or the actions of other patrons or third parties or force majeure. Without limiting the foregoing ticket holders or other patrons may be held liable for wilful or negligent damage to the site, site infrastructure and/or harm caused to another person at the event.
6. Duplicate tickets will not be issued for lost or stolen tickets.
7. The accommodation booking is only valid when booked directly with official agents. Tickets bought from other sources will be refused admission. The booking is personalised to the lead booker named on the booking confirmation and may not be:
- sold or transferred to another person; or
- used by any person for promotional purposes, including as a prize or other reward in a competition or lottery, except with the prior written permission of GFEL
- purchased by an agent on behalf of his or her principal.
8. Where a booking has been obtained by a person in breach of clause 7 and/or clause 11, GFEL’s obligations in relation to the booking will cease to have effect immediately, in particular:
- any person other than the lead booker presenting the booking confirmation may be refused entrance to, or removed without notice from the Festival and from Official Campsites.
- Festival tickets may be cancelled and/or confiscated and accommodation booking withdrawn and there shall be no obligation on GFEL or Official Campsites to refund any monies paid for the ticket or the accommodation booking.
9. Strictly no trading or other Commercial Activity by any ticket holder will be allowed at Official Campsites or on the Festival Site without the Festival’s prior written consent. Please note GFEL will charge a fee for any commercial activity (including filming, photography and recording) at Official Campsites or on the Festival Site.
10. Entrance to Official Campsites and the Festival Site is subject to both the Festival’s Photography Policy and the Broadcaster Internet and Filming Policy. Ticket holders may not use photographic, recording or filming equipment on the Festival site for Commercial Activity, without the Festival’s prior written consent:
(a) a person may be denied entry to, or removed from Official Campsites and/or the Festival Site if they are in possession of any equipment capable of taking photographs, making films, sound recordings or broadcasts; or if they take or make any photograph, film, sound recording or broadcast of anything occurring inside the Glastonbury Festival or the Official Campsites for Commercial Activity.
(b) a person may enter Official Campsites or the Festival Site with equipment referred to in 10(a). above where it is integrated into electronic communications apparatus designed for personal private use (such as a mobile telephone) and/or a personal stills camera but that person may still be removed in accordance with paragraph 10(a) above if they use or attempt to use that device for Commercial Activity.
11. “Commercial Activity” means any commercial, promotional and trading activities (including but not limited to ambush marketing, sponsored or paid for social media posts, brand influencing and/or unauthorised filming). Such Commercial Activity is not permitted on the Festival Site without express prior written permission of GFEL. Without limiting the foregoing, ticketholders may post content from the Festival on their personal social media accounts, in line with the Festival’s Photography Policy and the Broadcaster Internet and Filming Policy however this cannot extend to any content which would by any law, or trading standards rules or regulations, require them to include hashtags such as #ad #gifted #prinvite or #thanksto(partner). For the avoidance of doubt, no such hashtags are permitted to be used in conjunction with the Festival, nor the Festival IP, nor in any other manner which may suggest or imply any commercial association with the Festival.
12. Tickets and accommodation at the Glastonbury Festival, including Official Campsites cannot be used as part of any advertising, endorsement, sponsorship, marketing, media campaign, sales promotion, staff reward programme or used in competition whether commercial or non-commercial without prior written permission of GFEL.
13. GFEL and its associated companies own various registered trademarks and other intellectual property including without limitation the marks Glastonbury, Glasto, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm as well as the Glastonbury Festival logo and the Pyramid Stage and Ribbon Tower (Collectively “Festival IP”) are registered as various classes of United Kingdom and European Community Trademarks. The Festival IP may not be used without the express written permission of GFEL.
14. Notwithstanding the foregoing, GFEL reserves its rights generally in relation to any unauthorised Commercial Activity as set out above, including but not limited to the right to issue takedowns, seek damages, and/or retrospectively charge a fee at its discretion for any Commercial Activity (including filming, photography, recording or posting, tagging or linking to branded material) which originates on the Festival Site or references the Festival’s Trademarks in relation to third party brands, services or products, (or which otherwise implies a commercial relationship with the Festival), and to evict any person(s) conducting any Commercial Activity in contravention of the terms and conditions of sale and entry. In order to maintain security and safety at the Festival or Official Campsites, images of ticket(s) and pass(es) or other accreditation copied or posted on social media may result in that ticket(s) and/or pass(es) being cancelled and no refund can be made in such circumstances.
15. As a condition of sale the ticket holder consents to being filmed, photographed and recorded for television, radio, webcast and other communication to the public in any medium and/or for any video, DVD or similar or any projection or digital mapping as part of the audience, and/or by any cameras and recordings operated by or on behalf of and made by or on behalf of GFEL for public safety and security purposes.
16. Wristbands removed from the wrist or tampered with will be rendered invalid and will not be replaced. Lost or missing wristbands will not be replaced. Those without wristbands or appropriate accreditation will be refused admission to the site or may be removed from the Festival Site, including Official Campsites. For security purposes all tickets remain the property of GFEL at all times and all wristbands issued by GFEL remain the property of GFEL until 5pm Monday 30th June 2025.
17. The lead booker accepts liability for any loss or damage to structures incurred during the hire period which is considered by the management to be more substantial than general wear and tear.
18. Anyone under the age of 16 must be accompanied to the Festival by a responsible adult (aged 18 or over, who would usually be the parent, carer, legal guardian or other adult entrusted with the care of that child) who accepts full responsibility and full supervision, at all times, for all under 16s attending under their supervision. Anyone under the age of 16 is not permitted to enter, leave or re-enter the Festival site unaccompanied by their responsible adult. Persons aged 13-15 (teenagers) may be permitted to exit and re-enter the Festival if wearing a “Parental Permission for Exit/Re-entry Wristband”.
19. GFEL will comply with all current HM Government legislation and as a condition of attendance, ticketholders will be required to comply with this legislation and any associated statutory guidelines, and accordingly, where necessary GFEL reserves the right to vary and amend these terms and conditions (solely to the extent necessary to accommodate such changes to legislation and guidance). In particular this will apply to any public health rules, policies, advice and guidance which can be subject to change at short notice.
2025 INFORMATION & NOTIFICATIONS
The Information section of the Festival website is essential reading before attending the Festival. For advice on personal safety, getting to the Festival, and what to bring (and not to bring) please see www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/info/#advice-and-facilities--packing-list
- Pitches are allocated on a first come first served basis. Where possible the Festival will endeavour to meet requests for friends and family groups to be located together if booking the same accommodation type, however this service cannot be guaranteed.
- Only the pre-erected camping facilities provided by the Festival are permitted on the Official Campsites. Please do not attempt to pitch additional tents or gazebos on any part of the Official Campsites or tamper with or attempt to relocate the pre-erected facilities. Any unauthorised tents will be taken down and confiscated by the campsite staff and may not be returned
- All Cars require a separate car parking ticket, specific to the ticketholder’s designated Official Campsite which must be bought in advance.
- Campervans, Caravans and other vehicles are not permitted at Official Campsites. If you wish to bring a campervan or caravan, please use the designated campervan and caravan fields, which also require separate tickets. Please see the Festival website for more information.
- No vehicles are to be parked or tents pitched in the fire lanes at any time.
- No trading or sound systems of any kind are permitted at Official Campsites other than those provided by the organisers. Anyone found operating such systems may be liable to confiscation of the system and the ticket holder removed without notice. GFEL accepts no responsibility for goods or services purchased from third parties. Official merchandise will be available onsite. Please don’t buy from street traders.
- Fireworks, Chinese/flying lanterns, drones, flares, the burning of plastics, generators, glass containers, potential weapons, portable laser equipment including laser pens or any illegal or offensive items or substances are not permitted at Official Campsites and will be confiscated.
- Tents and vehicles are liable to search by security staff. Any items which the organisers consider may be used in an illegal or offensive manner shall be confiscated. Persons suspected of carrying out illegal and/or offensive activities onsite may be searched. Anyone resisting confiscation of disallowed items or disregarding these conditions will face eviction from the site and may be removed without notice and their ticket may be cancelled.
- No animals are allowed onsite with the exception of registered guide and assistance dogs.
- All litter must be cleared and put into litter bins or recycling bins.
- Open fires are not permitted at Official Campsites save for the communal campfire supervised by the Management and Official Campsite staff. Small barbecues can be used in these fields, but they must be a safe distance away from any tents or other structures.
- Please use the toilets and urinals and do not pollute the land, streams and hedges.
- To protect your own safety and that of other guests, please act responsibly. Please do not take chairs, buggies and trolleys into busy areas, or to the front of stages. If your chair, buggy or trolley is causing an obstruction you will be asked to move.
- Medical treatment at the Festival is provided by Festival Medical Services who are a separate legal entity. Any claims resulting from medical treatment on-site should be directed to Festival Medical Services. GFEL accepts no liability for any injury, claim or damages resulting from any medical treatment on-site.
- Pedestrian access from the Festival site to the Official Campsite “Worthy View” is via a footpath at a gradient which the Festival does not recommend for wheelchair users, pushchairs or child buggies. Festival-goers with mobility concerns who wish to book accommodation at “Worthy View” may wish to drive from “Worthy View” to the accessible car park, from where a shuttle service is available to the Festival site. Alternatively, access facilities are available on the Festival site – please see the Festival website for further information.
- Smoking, vaping and the use of e-cigarettes are not permitted in enclosed public areas, including but not limited to any tented structure and all types of accommodation and facilities at Official Campsites.
- Carbon Monoxide (CO) is a colourless, odourless, highly poisonous gas that can kill in minutes. Carbon Monoxide poisoning can be caused by ANY fuel that burns or smoulders. Do not take a lit or smouldering BBQ or gas camping stove into your tent or accommodation unit.
- Glastonbury Festival operates a ‘Challenge 21’ policy for alcohol sales. If you look under 21, you will not be served alcohol unless you can prove you are over 18 – by presenting ID, or by wearing a ‘Challenge 21’ wristband. Full details can be found on the Festival website.
- Please note that some areas of the site, particularly front-of-stage barriers and late night areas are unsuitable for children. This may include adult content and crowds – children may be removed from, or refused admittance to, such areas for their own safety and the safety of others. Pushchairs and trolleys which may impact on crowd movement may not be permitted in these areas. Some late night and screening facilities may have age restrictions for entry. Those wishing to attend should bring suitable ID as proof of age, and parents and responsible adults should ensure that all restrictions are adhered to. For films classified as 18, a ‘Challenge 21’ policy will apply.
- All tents must be vacated by 5pm on Monday 30th June 2025.
- A number of performances at the Festival may include the use of strobe, flicker and other lighting effects. Some acts may use lasers, pyrotechnics and other special effects throughout their performance.
- GFEL does not offer refunds in the event of lost or stolen tickets or where the ticket holder cannot attend the Festival due to reasons beyond the Festival’s control. You might consider it prudent to insure the value of your ticket in the event of such loss, as you will be unable to check into Official Campsites without your ticket.
WARNING: EXCESSIVE EXPOSURE TO LOUD MUSIC MAY CAUSE DAMAGE TO YOUR HEARING
Official pre-erected campsites accommodation booking terms & conditions
In making an accommodation booking for the Glastonbury Festival official pre-erected campsites (“Official Campsite(s)”), you are agreeing to the code of conduct laid out by Glastonbury Festival Events Ltd (“GFEL”) and the below terms. These terms and conditions expressly provide that the accommodation booked may not be used in connection with any commercial activity on or off site. All commercial activity must be separately agreed with the Festival management (“Management”) and will be subject to a fee. You also agree that you and all ticket holders in your party will behave responsibly at your designated Official Campsite and not cause any nuisance to other guests or Official Campsite staff. By making this booking, you acknowledge your agreement to the following terms:
1. All persons aged 13 or over occupying the accommodation booked must have valid full weekend Festival tickets, and as such, agree to the full terms and conditions for ticket holders, which can be found here.
2. Names of all accommodation residents must be supplied when booking, with final confirmation due no later than one week prior to the Festival. Everyone staying in the accommodation will need to present their tickets to receive their Festival wristbands.
3. Accommodation bookings are non-transferable. After 23:59 May 3rd 2024 no refunds will be made other than in the event of the cancellation of the Glastonbury Festival 2024. Any cancellations prior to 23:59 May 3rd 2024 will incur a £25 administration charge per unit.
4. The Premises Licence Holder (hereafter “PLH”) and/or GFEL reserves the right to
(a) refuse admission in any circumstances.
(b) evict any person breaching the terms and conditions of entry, committing a criminal offence, behaving in a manner considered by GFEL or the PLH to be disorderly or in a way that has an adverse effect on public safety, or behaving in an anti-social manner or in a way that causes a public nuisance.
(c) evict all members of any group of persons where GFEL or the PLH consider that group is behaving in a persistent anti-social manner.
(d) in order to facilitate the security, safety and comfort of all guests, refuse entry to ticket holders who attempt to enter the Festival site or Official Campsites or any surrounding land used by the Festival (including car parks) that constitutes the Festival footprint, (hereafter ‘the Festival Site”) with contraband goods and/or prohibited articles. Please refer to this section for information on articles which will not be allowed onsite.
(e) in its sole discretion, remove without notice any ticket holder(s) who are engaged in anti-social behaviour or are rude or abusive to other guests or Official Campsite staff.
5. Admission to Official Campsites and to the Festival Site is at the ticketholder’s own risk. GFEL and the PLH will not be held liable for any loss, injuries or damages sustained at the event including damage, theft or losses to property and motor vehicles, if the cause is due to the negligence of the ticket holder or the actions of other patrons or third parties or force majeure.
6. Duplicate tickets will not be issued for lost or stolen tickets.
7. The accommodation booking is only valid when booked directly with official agents. The booking is personalised to the lead booker named on the booking confirmation and may not be:
- sold or transferred to another person; or
- used by any person for promotional purposes, including as a prize or other reward in a competition or lottery, except with the prior written permission of GFEL
- purchased by an agent on behalf of his or her principal.
8. Where a booking has been obtained by a person in breach of clause 7 and/or clause 11, GFEL’s obligations in relation to the booking will cease to have effect immediately, in particular:
- any person other than the lead booker presenting the booking confirmation may be refused entrance to, or removed without notice from the Festival and from Official Campsites.
- Festival tickets may be cancelled and/or confiscated and accommodation booking withdrawn and there shall be no obligation on GFEL or Official Campsites to refund any monies paid for the ticket or the accommodation booking.
9. Strictly no trading or other commercial activity by any ticket holder will be allowed at Official Campsites or on the Festival Site without the Festival’s prior written consent. Please note GFEL will charge a fee for any commercial activity (including filming, photography and recording) at Official Campsites or on the Festival Site.
10. Entrance to Official Campsites and the Festival Site is subject to both the Festival’s Photography Policy and the Broadcaster Internet and Filming Policy. Ticket holders may not use photographic, recording or filming equipment on the Festival site for commercial gain, without the Festival’s prior written consent:
(a) a person may be denied entry to, or removed from Official Campsites and/or the Festival Site if they are in possession of any equipment capable of taking photographs, making films, sound recordings or broadcasts; or if they take or make any photograph, film, sound recording or broadcast of anything occurring inside the Glastonbury Festival or the Official Campsites for commercial gain.
(b) a person may enter Official Campsites or the Festival Site with equipment referred to in 10(a). above where it is integrated into electronic communications apparatus designed for personal private use (such as a mobile telephone) and/or a personal stills camera but that person may still be removed in accordance with paragraph 10(a) above if they use or attempt to use that device for commercial gain.
11. Tickets and accommodation at the Glastonbury Festival, including Official Campsites cannot be used as part of any advertising, endorsement, sponsorship, marketing, media campaign, sales promotion, staff reward programme or used in competition whether commercial or non-commercial without prior written permission of GFEL.
12. GFEL’s intellectual property (including without limitation the marks Glastonbury, Glastonbury Festival, the Glastonbury Festival logo and the Pyramid Stage, which are registered United Kingdom and European Community Trademarks) may not be used without the express written permission of GFEL.
13. Notwithstanding the foregoing, GFEL reserves the right to charge a fee at its discretion for any commercial activity (including filming, photography, recording or posting, tagging or linking to branded material) which originates on the Festival Site or references the Festival’s Trademarks in relation to third party brands, services or products, and to evict any person(s) conducting any commercial activity in contravention of the terms and conditions of sale and entry. In order to maintain security and safety at the Festival or Official Campsites, images of ticket(s) and pass(es) or other accreditation copied or posted on social media may result in that ticket(s) and/or pass(es) being cancelled and no refund can be made in such circumstances.
14. As a condition of sale the ticket holder consents to being filmed, photographed and recorded for television, radio, webcast and other communication to the public in any medium and/or for any video, DVD or similar or any projection or digital mapping as part of the audience, and/or by any CCTV cameras and recordings operated by or on behalf of and made by or on behalf of GFEL for public safety and security purposes.
15. Wristbands removed from the wrist or tampered with will be rendered invalid and will not be replaced. Lost or missing wristbands will not be replaced. Those without wristbands or appropriate accreditation will be refused admission to the site or may be removed from the Festival Site, including Official Campsites. For security purposes all tickets remain the property of GFEL at all times and all wristbands issued by GFEL remain the property of GFEL until 5pm Monday 1st July 2024.
16. The lead booker accepts liability for any loss or damage to structures incurred during the hire period which is considered by the management to be more substantial than general wear and tear.
17. Anyone under the age of 16 must be accompanied to the Festival by a responsible adult (aged 18 or over, who would usually be the parent, carer, legal guardian or other adult entrusted with the care of that child) who accepts full responsibility and full supervision, at all times, for all under 16s attending under their supervision. Anyone under the age of 16 is not permitted to enter, leave or re-enter the Festival site unaccompanied by their responsible adult. Persons aged 13-15 (teenagers) may be permitted to exit and re-enter the Festival if wearing a “Parental Permission for Exit/Re-entry Wristband”.
18. GFEL will comply with all current HM Government legislation and as a condition of attendance, ticketholders will be required to comply with this legislation and any associated statutory guidelines, and accordingly, where necessary GFEL reserves the right to vary and amend these terms and conditions (solely to the extent necessary to accommodate such changes to legislation and guidance). In particular this will apply to any public health rules, policies, advice and guidance which can be subject to change at short notice.
2024 INFORMATION & NOTIFICATIONS
The Information section of the Festival website is essential reading before attending the Festival. For advice on personal safety, getting to the Festival, and what to bring (and not to bring) please see www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/information
- Pitches are allocated on a first come first served basis. Where possible the Festival will endeavour to meet requests for friends and family groups to be located together if booking the same accommodation type, however this service cannot be guaranteed.
- Only the pre-erected camping facilities provided by the Festival are permitted on the Official Campsites. Please do not attempt to pitch additional tents or gazebos on any part of the Official Campsites or tamper with or attempt to relocate the pre-erected facilities. Any unauthorised tents will be taken down and confiscated by the campsite staff and may not be returned
- All Cars require a separate car parking ticket, specific to the ticketholder’s designated Official Campsite which must be bought in advance.
- Campervans, Caravans and other vehicles are not permitted at Official Campsites. If you wish to bring a campervan or caravan, please use the designated campervan and caravan fields, which also require separate tickets. Please see this website for more information.
- No vehicles are to be parked or tents pitched in the fire lanes at any time.
- No trading or sound systems of any kind are permitted at Official Campsites other than those provided by the organisers. Anyone found operating such systems may be liable to confiscation of the system and the ticket holder removed without notice. GFEL accepts no responsibility for goods or services purchased from third parties. Official merchandise will be available onsite. Please don’t buy from street traders.
- Fireworks, Chinese/flying lanterns, drones, flares, the burning of plastics, generators, glass containers, potential weapons, portable laser equipment including laser pens or any illegal or offensive items or substances are not permitted at Official Campsites and will be confiscated.
- Tents and vehicles are liable to search by security staff. Any items which the organisers consider may be used in an illegal or offensive manner shall be confiscated. Persons suspected of carrying out illegal and/or offensive activities onsite may be searched. Anyone resisting confiscation of disallowed items or disregarding these conditions will face eviction from the site and may be removed without notice and their ticket may be cancelled.
- No animals are allowed onsite with the exception of registered guide and assistance dogs.
- All litter must be cleared and put into litter bins or recycling bins.
- Open fires are not permitted at Official Campsites save for the communal campfire supervised by the Management and Official Campsite staff. Small barbecues can be used in these fields, but they must be a safe distance away from any tents or other structures.
- Please use the toilets and urinals and do not pollute the land, streams and hedges.
- To protect your own safety and that of other guests, please act responsibly. Please do not take chairs, buggies and trolleys into busy areas, or to the front of stages. If your chair, buggy or trolley is causing an obstruction you will be asked to move.
- Medical treatment at the Festival is provided by Festival Medical Services who are a separate legal entity. Any claims resulting from medical treatment on-site should be directed to Festival Medical Services. GFEL accepts no liability for any injury, claim or damages resulting from any medical treatment on-site.
- Pedestrian access from the Festival site to the Official Campsite “Worthy View” is via a footpath at a gradient which the Festival does not recommend for wheelchair users, pushchairs or child buggies. Festival-goers with mobility concerns who wish to book accommodation at “Worthy View” may wish to drive from “Worthy View” to the accessible car park, from where a shuttle service is available to the Festival site. Alternatively, access facilities are available on the Festival site – please see here for further information.
- Smoking is not permitted in enclosed public areas, including all types of accommodation and facilities at Official Campsites.
- Carbon Monoxide (CO) is a colourless, odourless, highly poisonous gas that can kill in minutes. Carbon Monoxide poisoning can be caused by ANY fuel that burns or smoulders. Do not take a lit or smouldering BBQ or gas camping stove into your tent or accommodation unit.
- Glastonbury Festival operates a ‘Challenge 21’ policy for alcohol sales. If you look under 21, you will not be served alcohol unless you can prove you are over 18 – by presenting ID, or by wearing a ‘Challenge 21’ wristband. Full details can be found on the Festival website.
- Please note that some areas of the site, particularly front-of-stage barriers and late night areas are unsuitable for children. This may include adult content and crowds – children may be removed from, or refused admittance to, such areas for their own safety and the safety of others. Pushchairs and trolleys which may impact on crowd movement may not be permitted in these areas. Some late night and screening facilities may have age restrictions for entry. Those wishing to attend should bring suitable ID as proof of age, and parents and responsible adults should ensure that all restrictions are adhered to. For films classified as 18, a ‘Challenge 21’ policy will apply.
- All tents must be vacated by 5pm on Monday 1st July 2024.
- A number of performances at the Festival may include the use of strobe, flicker and other lighting effects. Some acts may use lasers, pyrotechnics and other special effects throughout their performance.
- GFEL does not offer refunds in the event of lost or stolen tickets or where the ticket holder cannot attend the Festival due to reasons beyond the Festival’s control. You might consider it prudent to insure the value of your ticket in the event of such loss, as you will be unable to check into Official Campsites without your ticket.
WARNING: EXCESSIVE EXPOSURE TO LOUD MUSIC MAY CAUSE DAMAGE TO YOUR HEARING
We want you to enjoy your time at the Festival as much as possible, so we’ve put together a wealth of advice for you: from what to pack, to tips on arrival, to bringing kids, to what to do in a medical emergency. Explore the Advice section and get yourself fully-prepared for having a top Festival time.
When thinking about what to pack, please bear these things in mind:
- Only bring what you really need. However you arrive, you'll inevitably have to carry your stuff a fair distance to where you camp. And as part of our Love Worthy Farm, Leave No Trace campaign we'd definitely encourage you to only bring things which you can take home – that includes everything, even your tent.
- Please use luggage tags. Please label all of your bags and belongings stating your name and mobile number, so that we can identify them as yours.
- Please be patient. For security reasons, ticket holders will be subject to searches of their vehicles, their bags and their person at this year’s Festival. Please cooperate with any security requests and all searches.
- The less you bring, the quicker you’ll get through the gates. As a general rule, we would ask you to only bring as much as you can carry yourself. We do appreciate that you’re going to be staying on the farm for several days, but travelling light really will make things quicker. There will be separate search lanes for those with large luggage and trolleys, and we anticipate that these lanes will be significantly slower.
- Please do not wrap your bags. Avoid using the thick plastic wrap you sometimes see at airports. Your bags will need to be accessible for searches and you’ll be bringing unnecessary waste onto the Festival site.
- Don't skimp on the essentials. Please bring a sturdy tent (and take it back home with you). Although you’ll be able buy pretty much anything you need here on site, there are now fewer camping equipment stores than there have been in the past. So please bring a sturdy tent that will last a lifetime of festival camping.
- REUSE, REDUCE, RESPECT. In a stand to make our world more sustainable, we ask you to avoid single-use items and opt for reusable options wherever possible and help us look after the land on which the Festival stands.
What to bring
- Festival ticket
- Travel tickets if coming by coach / train
- Personal ID:
Original ID documents (not photocopies) are needed for: Hospitality tickets, Challenge 21, Lead Booker for coach packages, Sunday tickets
– Photocopy of ID is okay if a child is under 12 but looks older - Driving licence (ideally with up to date address, so it – and anything with it – can be posted back to you if lost)
- Money/cards
- Mobile phone + battery pack. You can also hire a Vodafone battery pack - simply collect on site at the Vodafone Connect & Charge and exchange daily for a freshly charged one.
- Ear plugs – to keep your ears from ringing!
- A reusable water bottle, to fill up from the free taps on site
- Tent (lines/poles/groundsheet/pegs)
- Sleeping mat/sleeping bag/duvet/pillow
- Wellies or sturdy boots
- Waterproof coat and over trousers
- Change of weather appropriate clothing (in case you get wet!) including cosy sweater – it can be hot in the day and chilly at night
- Toiletries including towel/soap
- Medication if required (click here for the Festival's prescribed medication policy)
- Next of kin notification
- Medical info (allergies etc)
- Toilet roll
- Sun cream + hat
- Contraceptives
- Spectacles/contacts and solution
- Torch/batteries/bulbs (spares)
- Bin bags (for dirty clothing and footwear)
- Mark valuables with house name and postcode so it can be posted back to you
What not to bring
- Do not bring more than you need. Remember you'll need to take all it home again. Most things can be bought on site if necessary.
- Do not bring disposable vapes. They pollute the environment and can be hazardous at waste centres.
- Don’t bring gazebos. They take up valuable tent space in the campsites. We'd also rather you didn't put tape around your tent enclosures, please. It makes it harder for other people to get to their tents.
- Only food and alcohol for personal consumption can be brought onsite.
- Do not bring any knives.
- Do not bring anything made of glass. All glass will be confiscated if found, including perfume and mirrors.
- Do not bring excess packaging. If you purchase something new for the Festival, please remove all the excess packing at home, before you arrive.
- Do not bring body glitter. Even biodegradable body glitter will not properly breakdown without being heat-treated.
- Please avoid the use of disposable wipes. Wipes – even biodegradable wipes, which quickly breakdown into micro-plastics – are problematic environmental pollutants. Plant fibre-based biodegradable wipes release greenhouse gases when they decompose, so we would like people to really try to use alternatives. A washcloth and a bar of soap works wonders!
- You may be searched at the entrance for any items that may be used in an illegal or offensive manner – which will be confiscated. Persons suspected of carrying out illegal and/or offensive activities onsite may also be searched and face eviction. NB: Confiscated items will NOT be returned.
Please DO NOT bring any of these prohibited items:
- No portable laser equipment or pens are permitted.
- No knives.
- No animals (except registered guide dogs).
- No sound systems or drums.
- No generators.
- No sky lanterns, kites, fireworks, flares of any type or wax candles.
- No nitrous oxide (laughing gas). As a contraband good, under the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016 this substance is banned at Glastonbury. It is very dangerous to inhale nitrous oxide directly from the canister and if you take too much nitrous oxide you risk falling unconscious and/or suffocating from the lack of oxygen.
Please note:
- Persons using fireworks will be evicted from site and materials confiscated.
- No unauthorised tape recorders, professional film or video equipment are allowed onsite. Cameras for personal use are welcome.
- Flying or filming with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs, or so-called drones) is not allowed on site before, during or after the Festival – and is prohibited by law. We have a working site and the safety of our audience, crew and staff is paramount.
Car parks will open at 9pm on the Tuesday before gates open for the Festival, allowing Festival-goers to arrive throughout the night, when traffic volumes are low.
There will, however, be no entertainment or facilities in the car parks and Festival-goers will be expected to remain in their cars until the Festival gates open at 8am on Wednesday morning. Most people choose to eat locally or en route and then arrive in the early hours.
Sorry, but no camping will be allowed in the car parks. Please note, all public transport arrangements will stay as per previous years – ie there will be no facilities at Castle Cary railway station for early arrivals. Public transport facilities will only begin on Wednesday morning.
As in previous years, there will be no amplified entertainment on the Wednesday, with the main music stages not kicking off until Friday.
Please have your parking ticket clearly on display once you are within ten miles of the festival to make sure you are directed to the correct car parks. You will also need to have your Festival ticket to hand.
Do not give your Festival ticket to anyone until you go through the turnstiles. Once past security you will be given back your ticket which you will need for re-entry, along with the festival wristband you’ll be given at the entrance, if you leave the site or go to the car parks.
If you exit the site during the weekend, you will be given a Pass Out Voucher – hang onto this! It is very important as you need it in order to get back in. Do not give it to anyone else! Security staff may ask to see your ticket during the event too – so keep it secure! In past years, some ticket buyers had their tickets stolen some distance from the Festival when they stopped at service stations. Your ticket is precious – do not flash it around.
From 8am on Wednesday pedestrian gates operate 24 hours a day until the end of the Festival. If you have any problems with your ticket, or getting on site, there are enquiry cabins at each pedestrian gate (with the exception of Pedestrian Gate B), and an enquiry cabin is also sited in the caravan/campervan field.
Leave Pets at Home
Please don't bring your pets to Glastonbury. No animals are allowed onto the Festival site; it wouldn't be much fun for them anyway. People and vehicles entering the site are searched, and any animals found are impounded and housed off-site at the owners' expense. The ban on animals is a condition of the Festival Licence; it arose due to the health risks observed in early Festivals, when large packs of dogs gathered.
There's no shortage of things to do for children at Glastonbury. The Kidzfield and Green Kids areas are children's festivals within the Festival, featuring loads of activities and top names from the world of children's entertainment. While in the Theatre & Circus fields, quirky walkabouts and thrilling shows throughout the day will inspire and enthral all ages.
Getting into the Festival with kids
Children aged 12 and under, and child ticket holders, must be accompanied by an adult ticket holder. If you are bringing a child aged 12 or under with you who looks older than 12 you MUST bring ID to verify their age.e
Everyone who is aged 13 or over on the Wednesday the the Festival opens (when the Festival starts) planning to come to the Festival, must have registered and bought a full ticket. Children aged 12 and under do not require tickets and do not need to register.
Anyone under the age of 16 wishing to attend the Festival MUST be accompanied by someone over the age of 18. Those who are ages 16 or 17 are allowed to attend the Festival unaccompanied, but we would strongly advise that this decision is made with the consent of a parent or legal guardian.
Anyone attending the Festival on an adult ticket, who appears to be under 16 years of age, is advised to bring ID to verify their age.
Important advice when bringing children to Glastonbury
- The same notions of responsible childcare reign here as they would in any city centre. Please do lot leave your children unattended at any time and always remain sober and clear-headed when responsible for children.
- There are no creche facilities at Glastonbury Festival. Please make arrangements within your group of friends for someone to be supervising your children at all times, even in the Kidzfield.
- Please be aware that buggies and kinder wagons are difficult to see and awkward to manoeuvre in busy areas. Please allow crowds to disperse before attempting to move your children and do not take young children into densely crowded areas.
- Some busy adult-orientated late-night areas, particularly our venues in the South East Corner, are simply not appropriate for younger audiences at certain times. We strongly advise families with younger children under the age of 13 to leave these areas before 10pm. And even for teenagers under the age of 18, these are areas which may not be suitable late at night.
Family camping
There are two Family Camping Fields: the Cockmill Meadow near the Kidzfield and one on the north-west of the site at Wicket Ground. Families do not need a special ticket to camp in the Family fields, but it is not possible to reserve space in advance (and they can fill up quickly). Click here for more information on camping at Glastonbury.
Anyone heading for the family campsite by the Acoustic field should take the Purple Route into the Festival.
Lost children
Big crowds can be daunting for children. To avoid separating from them, give your kids the same advice you would if you were anywhere else: don't go off without telling you first. The Festival is generally a very safe and friendly environment, but if your child happens to get lost, please contact a steward, any Information point or Festival official so that we can help reunite you with your wandering offspring. Found kids are looked after at the Kidzfield until 7pm. They are then taken to Worthy Welfare.
It's really helpful if children have their parent's mobile number on them – the Kidzfield, Green Kids or Info Points provide markable children's wristbands for you to write your contact number on, or simply write it on your child’s clothing or arm – so that when your wandering child is found we can contact you. From a practical perspective, it can help to dress your children in bright colours or even a child's hi-vis vest, as it will help them stand out in busy areas.
Click here for more tips on bringing children to Glastonbury Festival.
There are medical facilities all around the site including a principal facility at Big Ground Medical supported by smaller medical units at Park Home and Cabaret and as well as a First Aid centre at Worthy View. There are two dispensing/retail pharmacies: Big Ground Medical Centre and opposite William's Green on the walk through towards West Holt.
Medical and First Aid
Festival Medical Services have been looking after Festival-goers for years. Most problems can be dealt with on site and very few people have to go off to hospital for treatment. FMS provides a comprehensive medical and first aid service at the Festival which includes:
Big Ground Medical Centre:
- Emergency Department
- X-ray facility
- Doctor & Nurse Consultations
- Physiotherapy
- Podiatry
- Emergency Dental Services
- Psychiatric and Substance Misuse Service
- Dispensing Pharmacy
Park Home Medical Centre:
- Minor Injuries Unit
Cabaret Walk-In Centres:
- Doctor & Nurse Consultations
- treatment of minor illnesses and injuries
Stages
There are specialist medical teams in front of the two main stages during performances.
Paramedic Rapid Response and First Responder foot patrols
Site Ambulances
Pharmacies provide advice and guidance as well as the usual retail pharmacy consumables.
FMS works closely with South Western Ambulance Service, whose primary responsibility is to deal with incidents outside the Festival site but also provides ambulances on site to respond to calls received through the 999 system
NHS 111
For health advice in non-emergency situations, simply dial 111.
How to get help in an emergency:
If you need medical or first aid attention, make your way, if you can, to one of the medical facilities. In an emergency, approach a Festival steward, Festival Information, a Markets Office, a security person or a police officer, any of whom will be able to summon assistance.
Only dial 999 from a mobile phone as a last resort – this may not be the most effective means of getting help on the Festival site.
Don't try to make your way off site to hospital – this may result in very long and possibly dangerous delays in getting treatment.
Pregnancy
There are no midwifery services at the festival and you should think very carefully before attending the event in the late stages of pregnancy. FMS policy is to transfer women in labour promptly to an off-site obstetric hospital, rather than deliver on site.
Infectious diseases
Infectious diseases could spread rapidly amongst festival-goers. You would be advised to stay away if you are suffering from an infection.
Please don’t come to Glastonbury if you have suffered from gastroenteritis with diarrhoea or vomiting during the previous 48 hours. Viral gastroenteritis is very infectious and spreads easily in crowds. Risks can be reduced by careful hand washing after going to the toilet and before handling food.
Measles is one of the most infectious diseases and there are outbreaks in England and Wales. Please don’t come to Glastonbury if you have developed a rash with a fever in the 4 days before arrival.
Be prepared: two doses of MMR vaccine provide a high level of protection. MMR is recommended for anyone over the age of 13 months although if you were born before 1970 you are very likely to have had measles as a child and to be immune.
For further information see www.nhs.uk Health A-Z
Staying safe and well
You can reduce the risk of injury and ill health by following this simple advice:
Alcohol
Drink in moderation. Hangover headaches usually respond if you drink plenty of water. For more detailed information on alcohol at festivals, please read FMS's alcohol information page.
Burns
Camping gas accidents are the most common cause of serious burns. Never change these canisters in or near a tent and make sure the canister is threaded properly before lighting. Beware of wax flares and candles. Only buy from sellers authorised by the Festival. Every year some irresponsible people sell unapproved flares and candles which cause nasty, sight-threatening eye injuries — so if you are uncertain they are legit, don't buy!
Crowds
Can be dangerous places for small children. Body surfing may look like fun, but would you like to be dropped and trampled? Don't put yourself at unnecessary risk.
Drugs
Stay safe, don't take drugs. FMS does not prescribe or dispense Controlled Drugs and makes no exceptions. For more detailed information on drugs at festivals, please read FMS's drugs information page.
Hearing damage
If you spend too long in front of the loudspeakers you could damage your hearing. Colourful earplugs, to protect your ears, are available from the Royal National Institute for the Deaf stall next to the Pyramid Stage.
Medicines and medication
Bring some over-the-counter remedies for headache, tooth ache, minor cuts, burns or bruises and sunburn. Ask your local pharmacist for advice. If you suffer from hay fever, remember to bring enough nasal spray, eye drops or antihistamine tablets to last through the Festival. Remember to bring any regular medications you might need. FMS can look after your medication if it needs to be kept in the fridge. If you do forget anything tell FMS. They can usually obtain further supplies.
Click here to read our prescribed medicines policy.
Practice Safe Sex
If you have sex without a condom you risk catching diseases such as gonorrhoea, syphilis or chlamydia or risk pregnancy. Emergency Contraception and sexual health advice and screening are available from the on-site Festival Medical Services.
Stomach bugs
Reduce your risk of picking up or spreading the germs that cause sickness and diarrhoea by washing your hands before you eat and after you go to the loo. If cooking take care. Make sure food is cooked properly, especially meat / hamburgers. Wash your hands if you have been handling rubbish.
Upset or depressed
If you are having emotional problems and want to talk to someone, the Samaritans have tents on the Festival site – identifiable by their large green banners. There are also two main welfare facilities on site; Worthy Welfare next to the farmhouse and Green Welfare in the Greenfields – they offer experienced, caring, and confidential help for all kinds of practical and personal problems as well as dealing with lost and found property. Click here to read about Glastonbury Festivals' Welfare centres.
FMS has a psychiatric team based at the Medical Centre to help with more serious mental health problems.
Water
Drink plenty of it! In hot weather or when you are very active you can dehydrate quickly. Safe drinking water is available for free from more than 850 taps, including at 30 bottle-filling stations, seven tap boards and four water bars (at the Pyramid Stage, West Holts, Other Stage and The Park), as well as at six WaterAid kiosks.
All water at Glastonbury Festival comes from Bristol Water and is of the same quality as your tap water at home.
Weather
Be prepared for almost any weather. Bring sun protection, warm clothes and wet weather gear – and a spare pair of shoes!
Please note: Although FMS have a fleet of stretcher and walking wounded ambulances operating on site, please don’t call an ambulance unless you really need one. This is to make sure that these specialist resources are always available to those in genuine need. If you are in any doubt call Festival Medical Services and ask advice.
Need more health information?
NHS 111 Tel: 111 / Online: NHS 111
Alcohol:
Somerset Drugs & Alcohol Service: 01373 475 560
Community:
Victim Support: 0845 303 0900
Drugs:
National Drugs Helpline: 0800 776600
West Somerset Healthcare Drugs Helpline: 0800 776600
Somerset Drugs & Alcohol Service: 01373 475 560
Food:
Beat Eating Disorders: Helpline 0808 801 0677; Youthline 0808 801 0711
Sexual Health:
SWISH Somerset Contraceptive and Sexual Health Service: 0300 124 5010
Somerset Lesbian and Gay Helpline: 01823 327078
Smoking:
www.givingupsmoking.co.uk
NHS Smoking Helpline: 0800 1690 169
GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL EVENTS LTD (GFEL) POLICY REGARDING THE CARRIAGE OF PRESCRIBED MEDICINES AND CONFISCATION AT THE FESTIVAL
Glastonbury Festival Events Ltd is committed to maintaining the safety and wellbeing of all persons on site, and is very aware that a proportion of the festival audience have a requirement to bring prescribed medicines onto site. Therefore it is the general policy of Glastonbury Festivals to permit prescription medicines to be brought onto site through pedestrian gates.
To ensure that illicit or potentially dangerous substances are not brought onto site under the guise of legitimate medical need, the following measures are to be enforced.
1. Advance information to customers and crew. If someone needs to bring prescription medicines onto site, they should consider this in advance and follow the steps set out below to assist security personnel to determine the medication is legitimately held.
2. Customers should:
a. Ensure the medicine is in its original container, with the dispensary sticker and issued in the name of the ticket-holder i.e. DON’T peel the label off or carry someone else’s medication
b. Bring the official prescription counterfoil or a letter of explanation from a registered medical practitioner
c. Ensure the quantity carried is the minimal required for duration on site
d. NOT bring non-essential tablets such as vitamin supplements
e. Be prepared to be challenged at the Gate or in the festival but do not seek to conceal medication
f. Contact the Festival in advance if the medication is vital to health and wellbeing to ensure that you remain safe and well
g. Be aware that a pharmacy and prescription service is available onsite
3. Safe Storage. In some instances, safe storage of medication can be arranged through the onsite medical service (including temperature controlled storage). NO storage should be provided at the Gate. Customers should contact help@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk in advance if this service is required.
4. Confiscation. Glastonbury Festival reserves the right to refuse access to patrons carrying substances which cannot be confirmed as being bona fide prescribed medication. In such instances gate staff may require that medicines be surrendered at the gate or returned to a vehicle or similar. Glastonbury Festival will NOT offer a Receipt-and-Collect service.
5. Appeal. At each entry Gate there will be a designated security supervisor who will handle any complaints or appeals regarding the provenance or safety of medications carried by members of the public. This supervisor shall have access to qualified medical and pharmacist advice via Event Control.
6. Pharmacy. A 24-hour GP service, including prescription and pharmacies are available onsite during the festival period. However, unusual medication or that with a short shelf-life is unlikely to be available.
1. Travel by public transport if you can. There are shuttle buses from Castle Cary station and the trains are full of happy Festival-goers who can help you find your way once you reach the site too.
2. Travel light – only bring what you will actually use. However you get to the Festival, it's a long walk from the bus depot or car parks to your camp site. Bring kit that you can easily carry yourself.
3. Check your tent before you leave home. Make sure you have a tent that is fit for purpose and made to last. Check that you have all the poles, guy ropes etc and you know how to pitch it. There is nothing worse than arriving in the rain/dark and finding you're missing a flysheet. Find a way to personalise/locate your tent so you can find it in the sea of Eurohike domes and Quechua pop-ups.
4. Make friends with your campsite neighbours. Not only to keep an eye on each other's stuff but to buddy up during the Festival too.
5. Get your daily Glastonbury Free Press newspaper. The free daily paper, printed on an old printing press on-site in the Theatre & Circus field, is loaded with great tips on things to see and do. The interesting stuff is rarely on the main stages.
6. Seek some solace in the Greenfields. The Festival is massive and heaving with people. Head to your tent or a quiet space in the far reaches of the Greenfields to escape the madding crowds once in a while.
7. Look after yourself and others. Clean your hands often – there are either taps or hand sanitiser available by the loo blocks – and try to get enough sleep/food/drink/sun protection etc.
8. Do not wee in the bushes or waterways. The Green Police will get you! Bring a portable urinal for night time (web search portable urinal) there are male and female versions available cheaply and you'll be glad of it when you can't face trudging to the less than fragrant bogs at 4am. Empty it down the Festival loos.
9. Treat yourself to an afternoon shower in the Greenpeace field. After a dose of hot water, eco shower gel and tranquillity, you'll feel – and perhaps even smell! – much better. Afternoons are much quieter than the early morning monster queue.
10. Leave no trace. Take home all of your possessions and camping equipment, bin all of your rubbish and help leave your camp site cow-ready and spotless.
Glastonbury Festival has a variety of toilet types and all are cleaned at least once a day.
Please don’t pee anywhere except in the loos. Urine can kill fish and wildlife in the streams and pollute our beautiful farm.
All Festival loo points have either hand washing or hand sanitiser facilities – make sure you use them. You are more likely to catch a bug from not washing your hands than from any other source.
These are the types of toilet you will find at Glastonbury Festival:
• LONG DROPS A Glastonbury Festival tradition! Lockable and open air, once again we have built even more this year and now have over 2,000 long drop seats across the site!
• COMPOST LOOS Glastonbury Festival now has over 1,300 compost toilets across the site (with more than 1,100 supplied by Natural Event). Only toilet paper should be put down a compost loo and sawdust should be sprinkled after a ‘number 2’. The sawdust is located outside the loos and you scoop a cup of it before you go to the loo.
• PORTABLE TOILETS There are less plastic portable loos than ever on site but if you do come across one make sure you flush it before and after each use as they become blocked quickly.
• ACCESSIBLE TOILETS There are wheelchair accessible toilets on viewing platforms at all the main stages and throughout the site. These are locked to avoid them being misused. If you are registered disabled and require access to these toilets please contact accessibility@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk prior to the start of the Festival to apply for this access.
• URINALS – MEN'S & WOMEN'S There are over 700 metres of male urinals dotted across the site. There are also some lovingly decorated female urinals, cared for by WaterAid volunteers who are also on hand to assist newcomers! There are seven of these female urinal sites for 2024, located near the Pyramid stage, Other stage, Arcadia, Stone Circle and in Bushy Ground and Paines campsites.
• WASHING FACILITIES FOR REUSABLE SANITARY PRODUCTS Four of the female urinals sites will have two compost toilets set-up with washing facilities inside so that reusable sanitary products can be cleaned and used. These will be located at Bushy Ground and Paines campsites, Stone Circle and Pyramid stage near Hawkwell campsite.
Please Leave Facilities In The Condition You Wish To Find Them. Respect Each Other And The Farm.
LEAVE NO TRACE
Due to the enormous demands on our water supply, Glastonbury is not able to offer large numbers of public showers. For those desperate for a shower, there are a small number of showers available at the bottom of the Kidzfield and in the Greenpeace field, but you should expect to queue for a while to use them. Otherwise, we'd just recommend packing a wash cloth and a bar of soap for a good ol' fashioned stripwash and making do – it's the true Glastonbury way!
For 2024, Glastonbury has teamed up with WaterAid and Hey Girls to make sure everyone can manage their period with dignity.
Free Period Products
Tampons and sanitary pads will be available for free from all women’s urinals and information points onsite.
Glastonbury has worked with UK social enterprise Hey Girls to make disposable period products available free for attendees at all information points and women’s urinals. Operating on a buy one give scheme, for every product Glastonbury has funded at the Festival, Hey Girls will provide one to someone in need through their community partnerships (including food banks, schools or other programmes).
Period Proud Women’s Urinals
This year WaterAid has worked with Glastonbury to introduce four period proud women’s urinals – private spaces equipped with sinks, warm water and soap to hygienically clean reusable products and help people manage their period with dignity. These spaces are located at the following women’s urinals;
Bushy Ground Campsite
Paines Ground Campsite
Hawkwell Campsite (near Pyramid Stage)
Stone Circle
All water across Glastonbury Festival is from our mains water supply from Bristol Water, and is the same quality as your tap water at home. We are encouraging all Festival-goers to use a reusable water bottle and refill for free at more than 850 water points, including at 30 bottle-filling stations, seven tap boards and four water bars (at the Pyramid Stage, West Holts, Other Stage and The Park), as well as at six WaterAid kiosks.
We regularly sample and test our water to ensure a safe, clean supply.
All water taps and WaterAid kiosks are marked on the Festival map.
Please do not waste water.
Anything can be safely stored at any of the 14 Property Lock-ups around the Festival site. The locations are marked on Festival maps, and at the entrances to the Lockups, by a black ‘keyhole’ logo. You can leave your belongings in safety – bicycles, trolleys, rucksacks, motorcycle leathers and helmets, car keys, medical supplies, passports, credit cards, wallets, train / coach tickets, whatever! – for however long you choose.
Property Lock-ups are open 24 hours a day and are free of charge to use. As well as looking after your belongings, the Lock-ups also distribute toilet rolls free of charge.
The Lock-ups open at 8am on the Wednesday and close at 12 noon on the Monday – so if you leave anything in the Lock-ups make sure that you pick up your belongings before then.(Anything left behind after this time will have to be claimed from Worthy Welfare and may not be available until after 4pm.)
The Lock-ups are run by volunteers from Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament groups, Birmingham Friends of the Earth and Brighton Peace and Environment Centre. Use the Lock-ups and support these groups campaigning for a more sustainable, peaceful society. Click here for our Facebook page.
Challenge 21 wristbands
The property Lock-ups will also be issuing 'Challenge 21' wristbands. The Festival operates a 'Challenge 21’ policy for alcohol sales. If you look under 21, you will not be served alcohol unless you can prove you are over 18 – by presenting ID, or by wearing a ‘Challenge 21' wristband. These will be available from the property lock-ups, on presentation of a valid form of photo ID. The following are acceptable forms of ID:
- UK Driving Licence
- Valid Passport
- If you don't want to bring your passport or driving licence, use a PASS ID. See http://www.pass-scheme.org.uk/ for details.
Over twenty of our main bars will be accepting payment by debit and credit card, on more than 100 card readers. Many food traders will also be accepting cards but not all traders will be able to accept cards, so please expect to use cash over the weekend.
Cash Machine (ATMs) are spread across five locations around the site and all are open 24 hours a day and accept all UK and International cards. The ATMs carry a £2.95 charge per UK debit card withdrawal, the machines near Worthy Farm carry a reduced charge of £1.50. Get cash with a friend for company and security and don’t forget, remind yourself of your PIN number and bring your debit or credit card with you.
The Welfare Centres provide experienced, caring and confidential help for all kinds of practical and personal problems, as well as dealing with lost & found property. There are three main welfare services: Worthy Welfare, Green Welfare, and The Samaritans.
Worthy Welfare / SARSAS
This is the main centre for practical welfare support, which is open 24 hours a day throughout the Festival. If your problem is practical rather than medical, try here first. A good place to go if you lose all your kit, for example - not least because they also handle Lost Property during the festival. They also look after found children after 7pm (found kids are looked after in the Kidzfield until that time).
To complement the support and care Glastonbury provides for Festival-goers and staff, SARSAS (Somerset & Avon Rape And Sexual Abuse Support) will be located in a cabin next door to Worthy Welfare. They will offer a wellbeing area for anyone who has been affected by sexual harassment or assault, at any time in their life. If a situation makes you or any Festival-goer feel uncomfortable, or if anyone is triggered by something that has happened in the past, this is a safe place to be. Go and talk to SARSAS’s experienced support team. From sitting down for a cup of tea and a confidential chat, to more information about care and next steps at the Festival or after, they’re here to help.
Green Welfare – run by ITHINC
Situated just beyond the railway line at the entrance to the Green Fields, Green Welfare is a good place to head for if you’re feeling under the weather or just need somewhere quiet to sit and chat to someone.
Worthy Rest
These two new Worthy Rest tents, situated in Silver Hayes and The Park, are places where anyone can go if they need some time away from it all. Hosted by Mind, SARSAS and Ithinc Harm Reduction team, these organisations are also on hand to provide specialised support, advice and counselling. SARSAS will also be working from a cabin next to Worthy Welfare in Big Ground.
The Samaritans
The Festival Branch of Samaritans have been going to Glastonbury since 1974 offering 24 hour emotional support. They have a team of volunteers who work shifts throughout the day and night dealing confidentially with upset, depressed or suicidal people. The Samaritans' tent (with prominent green and white "SAMARITANS" banners and huge flags) will be situated in the Main Markets area, near Whitelake Bridge, between the Pyramid and Other Stages.
See the Festival Branch website at www.festivalsamaritans.org. The admin address for Festival Samaritans is: info@festivalsamaritans.org. Samaritans national free phone number is 116 123. Or if you'd rather "talk" via email the address is: jo@samaritans.org.uk.
Don't forget to drink plenty of water. Long waking hours, dancing and summer sun can increase your need. Free mains-supplied drinking water is available from the many Festival taps scattered around the site, WaterAid kiosks and bars. Please re-fill your re-usable water bottles regularly. Cans of water are also available to buy from stalls around the site. If you're using your hands to drink, wash them first. For information about the Glastonbury Festival water, please read the water supply section above in the Advice and Facilities area of the website.
If you're bringing your own alcohol to the Festival, remember that amounts considered beyond reasonable personal use will be confiscated at the gate. All glass bottles will also be confiscated – you must decant all contents into alternative bottles before you come to site. Beer tents on site are run by the Workers Beer Company and Avalon bars. The prices are equivalent to London pub prices.
Please take care: drugs/alcohol cocktails can be lethal. Know your limits, and those of your friends. Drunk people can be very irksome! You'll all have a much better Festival if you avoid over-doing it. If you are concerned that one of your friends requires assistance, ask a steward or security personnel to point you towards The Medical Centre or Welfare Tent.
Click here to read what Festival Medical Services advise regarding alcohol.
Don't drive under the influence of drink or drugs when leaving the Festival. For more advice and information from road safety charity Brake, click here.
The NHS recommend that if you're pregnant or planning to become pregnant you should not drink alcohol. This will keep any risk to your baby to a minimum.
Challenge 21 wristbands
The Festival operates a 'Challenge 21’ policy for alcohol sales. If you look under 21, you will not be served alcohol unless you can prove you are over 18 – by presenting ID, or by wearing a ‘Challenge 21' wristband. These will be available from the Property Lock-ups on site, on presentation of a valid form of photo ID. The following are acceptable forms of ID:
- UK Driving Licence
- Valid Passport
- If you don't want to bring your passport or driving licence, use a PASS ID. See http://www.pass-scheme.org.uk/ for details.
The dealing in or use of illegal drugs is not condoned by Glastonbury Festival. Drug enforcement laws are as applicable on the Festival site as anywhere else in the country. Police officers will be on-site and will deal with drug offences in accordance with national guidelines. If you deal in drugs, it is likely that you will be arrested. Neither anti-social nor illegal behaviour will be tolerated and participants will leave themselves liable for eviction from the site.
The terms and conditions of entry printed on the back of every ticket state: “You may be searched at the entrance. Any items which the organisers consider may be used in an illegal or offensive manner will be confiscated. Persons suspected of carrying out illegal and / or offensive activities on site may be searched.”
If you bring drugs with you, you risk having them confiscated and possible eviction from the Festival. The police have made big efforts in recent years to crack down on the sale of drugs at the Festival. Those in possession of illegal drugs risk being removed from the Festival site and refused re-admission.
Experimenting with drugs can lead to adverse reactions. The crowds and the sheer size of the Festival can be very frightening and disorientating. If you do take drugs and you become ill, depressed or frightened please ask a steward to direct you to one of the many facilities on site, such as Welfare, Worthy Rest or medical services, which can help and support you.
Polydrug use – using more than one drug at a time – intensifies the effects of the drugs, making them more dangerous. Mixing alcohol alongside other drugs is one of the most common forms of polydrug use and can seriously increase the strength and impact of those substances, increasing the chances of a potentially fatal chemical reaction.
The strength and type of drugs can significantly increase their danger. Drugs like Ecstasy and MDMA have, on average, nearly doubled in strength since 2005, with some pills found to be testing four times stronger than those available twenty years ago. The stronger the drug, the more dangerous its effects. The use of Ketamine – a powerful anaesthetic – can be fatal, particularly when taken alongside other substances.
For more information about drugs, head to Frank, an independent government-funded website offering unbiased facts about drug-use (NB: Glastonbury is not responsible for the content of external websites).
Please note that as of November 2023, nitrous oxide (laughing gas) has been classified as an illegal Class C drug, which is therefore banned at Glastonbury Festival.
It is very dangerous to inhale nitrous oxide directly from the canister and if you take too much nitrous oxide you risk falling unconscious and/or suffocating from the lack of oxygen. Please do not bring / use nitrous oxide at Glastonbury Festival.
Worthy Rest
These two new Worthy Rest tents, situated in Silver Hayes and The Park, are places where anyone can go if they need some time away from it all. Hosted by Mind, The Samaritans, SARSAS and iTHINC Harm Reduction team, these organisations are also on hand to provide specialised support, advice and counselling. SARSAS will also be working from a cabin next to Worthy Welfare in Big Ground.
Excessive exposure to loud music may cause damage to your hearing. Remember to give your ears a break. It's a good idea to wear ear-plugs too.
A note on "Noise" - by "Deaf Geoff" Markson, ex-sound engineer to the stars.
Music's a big part of Glastonbury. A lot of people come mainly to listen to the bands. Lucky bastards. It's like this: nowadays there is a piece of legislation called the Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005. Loosely speaking, the regulations say that in any environment where workers are normally exposed to sound levels of 80 dB(A) or over, employers are obliged to warn staff of the dangers of cumulative sound pressure hearing loss, and provide them with ear protection. There's also an absolute maximum exposure for staff, after taking hearing protection into account, of 87 dB. You can find out more information at the RNID website.
These regulations haven't always been around, and lots of people my age who have been surrounded by rock and roll all their lives wish they had; they make people aware of the dangers of being exposed to high noise levels for long periods. Most younger sound engineers now wear ear protection at all times at an event except when they are doing their mix. Makes sense. And you will see other people around stages wearing ear plugs most of the time too.
But Festival-goers are not at work – you can expose yourself to whatever sound levels you wish! So can I make a suggestion? If you love music and want to continue enjoying it for years to come, look after your ears. Be aware that in front of the PA stacks at nearly all of the music stages at Glastonbury, even the smaller ones, you will be exposed to extreme noise levels. Your ears can deal with it - for a short while. But if you are going to spend a long time at the stages remember to give your ears a break.
Personal sound systems
Please don't bring your own sound system – the Festival has music pretty well covered. The campsites are patrolled for rogue systems, which will be confiscated.
Induction Loops
Induction Loops are provided for hearing aid users in the Cabaret tent, Theatre tent, Cinema tent, Access Arrivals Tent and Information Tent at the Meeting Point. Customers should look for the T symbol signs.
British Sign Language
Deafzone are onsite providing BSL Interpreters to Deaf festival goers. The Deafzone Tent is located by the Meeting Point.
If you have any enquiries regarding our facilities for D/deaf or hard of hearing Festival-goers please refer to the Festival's information for deaf customers or e-mail accessibility@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk.
A number of performances at the Festival may include the use of strobe, flicker and other lighting effects. Some acts may also use lasers, pyrotechnics and other special effects throughout their performance.
Glastonbury Festival was created in 1970 with a vision of a world which is freer, kinder and more respectful. Almost half a century later, we remain wholeheartedly committed to providing a welcoming, friendly and safe environment for everyone visiting Worthy Farm, regardless of their gender, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, disability, age, race, ethnicity, religion, belief or social status.
Everyone coming to Glastonbury Festival – whether to have fun or to work – should be able to do so in an atmosphere that is free of harassment, intimidation and anti-social or abusive behaviour.
If anyone does behave in a way which goes against these values, Glastonbury Festival’s staff and security reserve the right to take any action which they deem to be necessary or appropriate in the circumstances, including eviction from the Festival and/or reporting the matter to the relevant authorities.
If you are made to feel uncomfortable while at Glastonbury Festival, then we ask that you inform a member of staff or security as soon as possible. All information received will be dealt with sensitively and appropriately.
The information below is from Avon and Somerset Police, the Festival's local police force.
Why are Avon and Somerset Police at Glastonbury?
More than 200,000 people attend each day of the Festival and although it is relatively crime-free, we work with the organisers to ensure it’s a safe event for everyone.
A policing presence is also essential to the granting of the licence needed to hold the Festival.
What do we do at the festival?
We adopt the same neighbourhood-style of policing we practice throughout our communities and like we’ve previously done at past Festivals.
This involves regular visible patrols of the site by uniformed officers, officers on horseback and officers on bicycles.
We encourage Festival-goers to approach officers on patrol. They will be happy to stop and have a chat.
Other resources, such as plain-clothed officers and the police helicopter, will also be used when appropriate.
To enhance security, we will also be carrying out Project Servator deployments in and around the Festival site.
Where can you find us?
During the Festival we will be on site 24 hours a day.
We will be based in a compound on Worthy Farm, in the Big Ground (PGB) area of the site. We share this area with other emergency services and partners.
The public can visit us to:
- report a crime to an officer, or by using the on-site phone at the police compound – if you have access to the internet, you can also use our dedicated report crime at Glastonbury form
- ask for directions
- or just to chat to an officer
There are also police information boards situated around the festival site close to the steward cabins. These display information on how to report a crime, and crime prevention advice for those at the festival.
Travel advice
Before you set out on your journey to the festival, check the latest updates on road and public transport networks:
- Visit highwaysengland.co.uk or follow @HighwaysSWEST on Twitter for updates on motorways approaching the area.
- Visit travelsomerset.co.uk or follow @TravelSomerset on Twitter for updates on smaller roads near the festival.
- Visit the Glastonbury website for travel information
Make sure you are fully prepared for delays before setting out. Regardless of how you’re getting there, make sure you take plenty of water with you as well as snacks and a first aid kit, just in case.
If travelling by car, ensure you check your vehicle well in advance, including oil level, tyre pressure and spare tyre.
Safety advice
We want everyone to be familiar with the following advice ahead of this year’s festival.
- Arrive early for extra security measures. This will help prevent delays in getting into the event.
- Be patient with security checks and don’t give security, staff or stewards a hard time. It might seem inconvenient, but these measures are in place to help you.
- It is essential you don’t bring unnecessary items to the event. A suggested packing list can be found on here along with a list of prohibited items, such as lasers, fireworks and drones. Packing light will also help to speed up searches and your entry to the event.
- If you spot someone acting suspiciously, report it to a police officer or to a member of security staff immediately. Don’t leave it to someone else.
- If you see something on social media that concerns you, report it.
- In an emergency, always call 999 and look around you for help from staff – especially those with radios who can raise the alarm quickly.
- Don’t leave bags unattended or anywhere they could cause a security scare. And never agree to look after anyone else’s bags, no matter how genuine they seem.
- If there is an incident, listen to staff and any announcements. Festival organisers have emergency plans to help you keep safe.
- Remember, the chance of being caught in a terrorism incident is small. But if it happens – Run, Hide, Tell.
There is no intelligence to indicate an increased threat to Glastonbury Festival. However, as we did during previous Festivals, we will again be supporting Counter Terrorism Policing’s #BeSafeBeSound campaign on Twitter and Instagram.
Personal property advice
If you are bringing a phone, tablet or other electronic device to the Festival, you are advised to protect it.
Anti-theft apps give us the best chance to find stolen electronics and most are free to download and quick to install.
We advise people to record the make and model of their valuables, if it’s a phone then note down the IMEI number and the account username and password of any tracking app.
You can also register your property (phone, tablet, camera, etc) on the Immobilise database. It takes only a few minutes and it’s free.
Festival-goers are reminded to be discreet with their valuables. Keep it out of sight such as in a front pocket if possible or in one of our free phone pouches, or leave it at the free property lock-ups. Keep it safe, keep it hidden.
Read our crime prevention advice for more information about keeping your personal property safe.
Policing of illegal drugs
We will not tolerate anyone with illegal substances and those found with drugs will be dealt with appropriately and proportionately. This could include being evicted from the site and arrested.
Security checks will be carried out on entry into the site and the festival’s security staff are well practised in finding prohibited items.
Anyone who suspects someone is supplying drugs on site is asked to report it to a police officer, call 101 or report it online using our dedicated report crime at Glastonbury form.
Reporting concerns or crime to us
If you are at the festival and need to speak to us, approach an officer, if a crime is in progress or there is a threat of immediate danger, call 999.
To report non emergencies:
- call us using the on-site phone located at the police compound
- call 101
- or report it online using our dedicated report crime at Glastonbury form.
To help us locate you in the event you do need us, we recommend you download the What3Words app beforehand.
To keep up to date with news and crime prevention advice throughout the festival, or to ask us a non-urgent question, follow us on Twitter and Instagram.
Information for Pilton residents
Although we work with Mendip District Council and Glastonbury Festival throughout the year to ensure the festival runs as smoothly as possible, we do not underestimate the impact it has on the local community and will do everything possible to ensure they are disturbed as little as possible.
We, along with the council and the festival, will have representatives at Pilton Village Hall throughout the festival for local people to speak to should they have any concerns or worries.
Anyone planning to come to Pilton without a Festival ticket is strongly advised not to.
There will be no places for anyone to stop on or near the village and if people try to camp on roadside verges or near people’s homes they will be moved out of the area.
Policing doesn’t start and stop in Pilton. Officers and security staff will be patrolling on all of the routes to the site so that all Festival-goers have as safe a trip as possible and local residents are disturbed as little as possible.
In recent years there have been a number of fatalities and injuries in the UK as a result of people bringing BBQs or camping stoves into their tent or caravan and being overcome by carbon monoxide. If you're coming to Glastonbury, please make sure you read these top tips from Gas Safe Register to help keep you safe.
Chinese lanterns may look spectacular but they create a very real fire risk; once launched there is no control over where they might land.
The lanterns can cause fires and harm livestock. That is why they are banned at Glastonbury Festival and we would ask for your help in making sure that they are no longer used at the event. They really do cause harm.
Said Michael Eavis: "I have two main concerns regarding the lanterns; the first being the risk of fire, as the still burning lanterns could fall within the many acres of closely erected tents causing rapid fire spread and endangering lives.
"The second is a longer term consequence and the cause of many complaints from neighbouring landowners, as the lanterns can land on grass in farmers’ fields which is made into hay & silage for winter fodder and fed to stock; the operation of cutting and collecting the grass will chop the wire or bamboo frame of the lantern into needle sized pieces which in turn will be digested by the animals into their stomach possibly resulting in a slow death, I have had two cattle killed in this way at Worthy Farm.
"The ban of the lanterns is for a reason. Hopefully this information will deter anyone from bringing them onto site this year."
Glastonbury Festival is an overwhelmingly peaceful event, yet some crime does unfortunately occur. The most common crime is theft from – or even of – tents. Free property lock-ups are provided, security staff and stewards patrol the site and CCTV cameras are employed – both on and off site – for crime prevention purposes.
You can help yourself by following the advice below. Don't let the criminals disrupt your enjoyment by committing crime against you or your friends.
- Lock and empty your vehicles. Leave the glove compartment open and conspicuously empty.
- Only bring what you can afford to lose: you can buy disposable cameras on site.
- There's safety in groups: set up camp near friends and make friends with your neighbours. Look out for each other's property.
- Mark your property: clearly label your gear (including your tent) with your postcode. Obvious indelible markings will significantly reduce the risk of things being stolen and will increase the chance of their return if found. Tag your keys with a phone number and a friend's address. UV pens are also available at Property Lock-ups for marking your property.
- Use the security lockups for your valuables: the lockups are FREE and available 24 hours.
- Take any valuables – including prescription medication – with you when you leave your tent: keep them with you or store them in the security lock-ups.
- To make life harder for thieves, leave your tent untidy so there's not an obvious bag to grab quickly.
- Be inventive about where you hide your valuables when sleeping: you may not hear someone enter your tent, so separate your money and valuables into small amounts and hide them in different places in your tent.
- Don't challenge people looking through tents – report them to Festival staff or the Police. Campsite stewards are there for reporting suspicious behaviour, and offenders WILL be expelled from site.
- Keep with friends or people you trust: unfortunately at any large gathering a small number of people attend to prey on others. You present a far less vulnerable target as a group than you would on your own.
- Avoid dark areas and take advantage of the extra lighting along main thoroughfares and in the car parks.
Money sense:
- Don't keep all your cash and valuables in the same place: spread them around in different pockets.
- If using the cash machines after dark, go with a friend.
- Only take the credit cards you need.
- Make a note of your credit card numbers and leave it at home, plus the number to call if they are mislaid (phone numbers for lost credit cards are also held at Info Points).
- Wear your wristband at all times. The wristbands alone are not valid for entry/re-entry – so transferring them is useless, but you will need to wear your wristband at all times. Once inside the security fence the authorities are able to make a visual check on the legitimacy of each person on site.
- Read "The Knowledge" in the Festival Programme: it's full of useful information and tips to help you have a fantastic Festival experience.
If you do have something stolen, or if you lose something:
Lost property is at Worthy Welfare. Over 700 items were handed in during last year's Festival including 250 wallets/cardholders with contents, 118 mobile phones and 38 cameras. It is always worth checking there if anything goes missing.
The Police compound is at the top of the Big Ground camping field, near the Bank and the Farmhouse. Please report all crime. The Police can give you statements for insurance purposes.
Around the Festival site many different spiritual groups offer hospitality and sanctuary, and some provide welfare for those in need. You will not be expected to join in any acts of worship or other activities run by the tents, although you are welcome to join in if you wish. They are all present at the Festival to offer a service, and are open to everyone regardless of faith – or lack thereof.
Unfortunately, as the law stands, it is not possible to have a legal marriage at the Festival. The Festival is not a licensed venue. So, until the law changes, that legally binding wedding under your favourite tree will have to wait.
However, if you would like to add a little Glastonbury flavour to your wedding, the Pilton Tithe Barn is available to hire for wedding receptions. Click here for info.
This section gives details of how to enter the the 2024 Emerging Talent Competition. Details of how to enter the 2025 Emerging Talent competition have not yet been announced.
Click here to read about the winner of the Glastonbury Festival 2024 Emerging Talent Competition, and here to read about the eight acts who played at the 2024 ETC Finals.
We’re pleased to announced details of the 2024 EMERGING TALENT COMPETITION, which is once again supported by PRS for Music and PRS Foundation.
The competition gives new UK and Ireland-based acts of any musical genre the chance to compete for a slot on one of the main stages at this year’s Festival.
The winners of the free-to-enter competition will also be awarded a £5,000 Talent Development prize from PRS Foundation to help take their songwriting and performing to the next level. Two runners-up will also each be awarded a £2,500 PRS Foundation Talent Development prize.
Acts from any musical genre can enter the 2024 competition FOR ONE WEEK ONLY using the form below from 9am Monday 29th January until 5pm Monday 5th February 2024.
To enter, acts need to supply a YouTube link to one original song, plus a link to a video of themselves performing live (even if it’s only recorded in a bedroom).
The Festival is committed to diversity and inclusivity and we welcome entries from disabled artists, who we will support to ensure they are not disadvantaged by the process.
Once the entries are in, a panel of 30 of the UK’s best music writers will help compile a longlist of 90 acts. The longlist will then be narrowed down to a shortlist of eight artists by judges including Glastonbury organisers Michael and Emily Eavis, before the live finals in Pilton decide the winning act.
Glastonbury co-organiser Emily Eavis said: “At a time when it’s not always easy for acts to get their foot on the ladder, we’re really happy to be able to offer this opportunity for rising artists. So many amazing acts have been showcased by the Emerging Talent Competition over the years – and, as with the Festival, we welcome artists from all musical genres. I’m really excited to hear what 2024’s entries bring. It’s free to enter, so it definitely can’t hurt to give it a go!”
Michelle Escoffery, President of the PRS Members’ Council, said: “Our continued partnership with Glastonbury Festival and our charity arm PRS Foundation aims to discover and champion the trailblazing homegrown talent we have in the UK and Ireland. The Emerging Talent Competition provides an exciting and unique platform for artists and bands to gain major exposure with new audiences and industry leaders, as well as the opportunity to win talent development prize money to elevate their music careers. If you’ve ever dreamed of performing at this iconic festival, now is the time. Submit your song and good luck!”
Joe Frankland, CEO, PRS Foundation said: “We’re delighted to be continuing to partner with our friends at Glastonbury Festival and PRS for Music on this fantastic opportunity for music creators to perform at the legendary Glastonbury Festival, as well as receiving vital funding support to develop their careers. The huge amount of talent this competition unearths each year is incredible – demonstrating the wealth of exciting artists coming through across the UK. We are very much looking forward to seeing which talented artists apply this year.””
The winner of the 2023 competition was the Guinea-born, Cardiff-based musician N’famady Kouyaté, who says of his experience: “Winning Glastonbury’s Emerging Talent Competition was amazing and has opened loads of doors for me. It gave me and the band a chance to perform on an amazing stage at an incredible festival. Winning also meant that I could take the next steps to further my career. If you think you’re ready to take the next steps too, I highly suggest you enter this year’s contest!”
Watch N’famady Kouyaté’s winning performance below
Other recent Emerging Talent Competition finalists include Scottish singer-songwriter Lewis McLaughlin in 2022, 2020 lockdown winner R.A.E; 2019 winner Marie White, who later signed with Decca Records and Universal Publishing; rapper Flohio who won the prestigious Music Moves Europe Talent Award in 2020; R&B singer Izzy Bizu (a 2016 BRITs Critics’ Choice nominee and winner of the 2016 BBC Music Introducing Award); and singer-songwriter Declan McKenna, who won ETC 2015 and subsequently signed with Columbia and has released two successful albums. The 2017 ETC winner was singer Josh Barry, who has since toured with Rag’n’Bone Man and Gorgon City. Meanwhile, 2016 winners She Drew The Gun have received considerable acclaim for their politically-inspired psych-pop.
OTHER OPPORTUNITIES TO PERFORM AT THE FESTIVAL
Agents for artists signed to record labels wishing to play at the Festival can contact the Festival in the usual manner.
Please note, we cannot accept CDs at the Festival office as none of our Stage Programmers are based there.
Some of the smaller stages do accept submissions for possible bookings:
For Poetry & Words, you can email them here with some words about yourself and 1-3 video and/or audio files of you performing your work.
For Acoustic Stage please send CDs to Glastonbury Acoustic Stage, Asgard, 125 Parkway, Regents Park, London, NW1 7PS
If you’re interested in applying to trade at the Festival, click here.
Glastonbury Festival aims to provide memorable, creative and vibrant markets making the Festival a unique experience for all who attend. Whether you are absorbing the sights and sounds, tastes and smells or feeling the vibes – indulge all your senses, it’s all available here in the Markets.
At Glastonbury, like nowhere else, you can track down objects to amaze and delight; from British artisan creations to unique treasures from around the world. And plenty of fun festival essentials as well as necessary day to day items.
Glastonbury Festival also has over 400 food traders offering an array of exciting eats for Festival-goers. The choices are endless with a variety of delicious, world cuisine available across the site. Whether you fancy eating Vietnamese, Italian, Indian, Caribbean, Turkish or go looking for pies, burgers or a good old fashioned bacon sandwich, there is loads to choose from. There are also a large number of vegetarian stalls and more vegan ones than ever before. Specific dietary requirements can be catered for by many of our traders.
Take time out during the Festival to really explore the markets – they are all over the Festival site. Have a good wander around – you’ll be amazed at what you can find
£6 MEAL DEAL
Affordable food is very important to us at Glastonbury Festival and since 2015 many of our Traders have been helping Festival-goers go easy on their pocket. This year, 300 stallholders – that’s over 75 percent of all traders – will be offering a £6 meal deal. Participating traders will feature a £6 Meal Deal sticker on their menu boards along with information on the food they’re offering, so they will be easy to spot.
Our £6 Meal Deal makes it possible to sample a huge range of delicious world cuisine without breaking the bank. £6 options could include a katsu wrap, Somerset rarebit, muesli & coffee breakfast combination, a bowl of homemade chilli, a kids meal and drink, a falafel pitta, a hearty salad, Thai curry and rice, chicken with roast potato and gravy or a deal on coffee and cakes for two. The choices are endless.
The cleanest ways to travel to Glastonbury Festival is by bike and public transport, and over a third of ticket-holders travel to the Festival on coaches, trains or other forms of public transport. We’d encourage you to join them, and reduce your carbon footprint.
We prioritise the sale of our coach + Festival ticket packages and our coach partner, National Express, is running services to the Festival from over 70 locations. There are also a number of local buses running services to our Festival site bus station. Click here to find out more about traveling to Glastonbury by coach.
For those cycling to the Festival, Bike To Glasto provide free, secure bike lock-ups, as well as a designated cyclists-only campsite which include showers. For more information about cycling to Glastonbury Festival, click here.
For those arriving by train, we provide a free shuttle-bus service between the Festival site and our nearest train station at Castle Cary, that runs throughout the duration of the Festival.
If arriving by public transport is not an option, please do what you can to fill all the seats in your car and make the most of your mileage. This will go a long way to help look after our environment, reduce carbon emissions and lessen the cost of travel.
Glastonbury Festival does not endorse or facilitate travel by helicopter, except for operational purposes.
For full info of how to get to and from the Festival by your chosen mode of transport, see the dropdown menus below.
For SATNAV postcodes and info on buying car park tickets please see the By Car section
If you are driving to the Festival, you’ll need a car parking pass. If you have a pass, put the sticker on the windscreen well before you reach the Festival site.
If you’re planning on travelling to the Festival in an electric vehicle, make sure you have sufficient charge for your return trip. As a rule of thumb, if you have less than 50 miles of charge on approach to the site, you’ll need to juice up
An electric charging app like the Octopus Electroverse map and app from Octopus – who are once again partnering with the Festival and providing a wind turbine on site – can help plot your journey to the Festival and ensure you arrive with an adequately charged vehicle. The app’s route planner will plot a journey with dedicated charging stops, and you can use the Electroverse app or Electrocard (RFID) to access any of the charge points on the network.
Learn more about Octopus Electroverse here.
DO NOT DROP OFF ON LOCAL ROADS OR NEAR VEHICLE GATES – IT IS DANGEROUS FOR PEDESTRIANS AND VEHICLES.
For those being dropped-off at the Festival we have set up a 24 hour Drop and Collect service with a 24/7 bus service that runs to and from the Festival (GATE A) continuously.
Dropping off on local roads will leave you with a long dangerous walk to get to the car parks and then a longer walk to get to the gates. Not only that, but working out where to be picked up is even harder, leaving you waiting on a dangerous road side whilst your lift tries to negotiate all the road closures put in place to assist the exiting traffic.
Be sensible: get dropped-off at the Drop and Collect point, catch the bus to Pedestrian Gate A where you will get quicker access to the site. There's less walking involved, it is safer and much quicker.
The Drop and Collect will be open for the public from 9:00am on the Tuesday preceding the Festival onwards and remains open until 8.00pm on the Monday after the Festival.
The Drop and Collect is located to the east of the site. Head towards Evercreech on the A371 and follow the signs for Drop and Collect or DC. Plan a route that keeps you away from the immediate area of the Festival as the A361 is closed for through traffic on the Monday after the Festival between Glastonbury and Shepton Mallet.
A few more miles moving is better than sitting in a queue!
Those that have used the Drop and Collect in the past have found the service to be excellent. There are serviced brick-built toilets as well as a burger van for those who need a bite to eat.
Please do not arrive with large wheel barrows, wheelie bins or trollies as these will not be transported to the site.
NATIONAL EXPRESS COACHES
Travel Savvy to Glastonbury: Green, Affordable, and Hassle-Free.
Those in the know get the coach to Glasto! Affordable, convenient, and one of the greenest ways to get to Glastonbury. From saving big to saving the planet, this year’s journey to the festival has never looked better. National Express – the official Glastonbury coach partner – is once again running direct services from all over the UK straight to the festival gates at Worthy Farm!
Click here to see times, prices and book your ticket.
Here are five insider tips on why you should take the coach in 2025
1. It’s direct – you’ll get dropped off and picked up from the festival site.
2. It’s great value - with loads of departure locations in 2025.
3. You can let someone else do the driving – stress-free on the way there, and a godsend on the way back.
4. The fun can begin as soon as you get on the coach – it will be full of your fellow Festival-goers.
5. It’s greener – by travelling by coach emits less CO2 per passenger km than train travel, or by travelling alone, and removes loads of congestion off the roads.
Booking coach travel to Glastonbury is easy
Click here
Call 08717 81 81 81 – 24/7 (calls cost 10p per minute)
Top tip: print a spare copy of your return coach ticket, and book it into one of the free property lockups when you arrive. If you lose your phone or ticket, or your phone battery is dead, you can then collect your ticket from the property lockup and get home! If you don’t need the spare ticket, there’s no need to collect it from the property lockup.
SEE TICKETS COACH + TICKET PACKAGES
As part of the Festival’s continued commitment to green travel, over 22,000 coach + ticket packages for Glastonbury 2023 were sold in advance of general sale, rewarding green travellers with the chance to be the first to secure their tickets.
BPEC Coaches
For travellers coming from Brighton or London you can also purchase a coach ticket with registered charity Brighton Peace and Environment Centre. BPEC are a small, volunteer led charity that has been involved with Glastonbury Festival since the 1980s. All profits go to help fund their work to promote peace, equality and the environment. Coaches are available on Wednesday and for workers with crew tickets there are also seats available on Tuesday from Brighton. For more information and to purchase your ticket please click here.
Private Hire Coaches dropping and picking up
The 2025 Festival will have a dedicated area for hired coaches of 15 seats and above to drop off and pick up Festival-goers.
For minibuses with less than 15 seats, please use the Drop and Collect point. More information, including the 2025 PHCP pass price, will be available in the Spring.
Getting to Glastonbury by train
Taking the train is 67% less polluting than driving. So, cut your CO2 impact, be a climate hero and get to the festival by train!
The best station for getting to the festival is Castle Cary. Tickets are available up to six months in advance - download the Trainline app to book your journey in just a few taps.
Switch one journey from car to train to support I came by train, a collective movement helping to fight climate change.
Ways to save:
Book early to get the best prices - cheaper Advance tickets are available up to 24 weeks ahead for weekdays and 12 weeks ahead for weekend journeys.
Plus, you can save 1/3 with a Railcard (make sure you bring it when you travel). Or, if you’re in a group of three or more, you can get 1/3 off some journeys with GroupSave.
Useful info:
Please be aware that the train companies will not allow trolleys and carts onto their trains during the Glastonbury Festival period.
In the event of industrial action, there may be disruption.
Book your train tickets with Trainline today.
Bus from Castle Cary train station
There's a FREE shuttle bus for Festival ticket holders running between Castle Cary Station and the Festival Bus Station throughout the Festival. The bus station is next to Pedestrian Gate A. The shuttle operates from Wednesday to Monday (there is no service during the night when trains aren't running). Remember you will need your Festival ticket to use the bus service to the site.
On Sunday and Monday, a bus service will run from the Festival Bus Station, next to Pedestrian Gate A, to Bristol Temple Meads railway station.
NB: Please note that all the buses returning to the station (Castle Cary and Bristol Temple Meads) on Sunday and Monday are timetabled to arrive at the station before the last train. Don’t travel to the station outside these times as you will have to wait in the car park without any facilities. It is better to wait in the Bus park where there is shelter and food and drink and get the first bus in the morning.
For more information about bus services and timetables for services running to and from Glastonbury Festival, please read our Getting Here By Bus page.
Unfortunately it will not be possible to park at Castle Cary station during the Festival and there are no left luggage facilities at the station.
Although extra rail services will be running to Castle Cary station, queuing for trains is still likely. However, when leaving the Festival, trains on Sunday afternoon and in the early hours of Monday morning tend to be less crowded.
Make sure you allow plenty of time to...
• Pick up your kit from the property lock up near gate A (if you're leaving any there during the day)
• Get onto the bus and load luggage (please be aware that trolleys will not be permitted on this service.)
• Travel to the station
For those leaving on a Monday make sure you do not arrive too early if you have Saver Tickets or you will be asked to pay the additional fares or may have to travel back to the Festival to wait for the appropriate train.
ETICKETS – If you're buying an electronic train ticket which you plan to present via your mobile device, please ensure that your device has sufficient charge for you to be able to show the ticket at Castle Cary station on your departure from the Festival. There are no charging facilities at the station. We would recommend bringing a print out of your eticket as a backup.
There are also regular trains from Bristol Temple Meads to Castle Cary, sometimes you may have to change at Westbury, and the journey takes around 70 minutes.
Top tip: print a spare copy of your return train ticket, and book it into the free property lockup near gate A when you arrive. If you lose your phone or ticket, or your phone battery is dead, you can then collect your ticket from the property lockup and get home! If you don’t need the spare ticket, there’s no need to collect it from the property lockup.
All aboard!
For COACH TRAVEL please click here.
Bristol Bus Station service
National Express runs a direct coach service between Bristol Bus Station and the festival coach station. Fares can be booked on the National Express website or by calling 08717 81 81 81 – 24/7 (calls cost 10p per minute).
Below are details of 2024 bus services to Glastonbury Festival Bus Station.
2024 Bus from Bristol
Service 374/375/376
Take the 374/375/376 bus from Bristol Temple Meads station to Glastonbury town and connect into the festival bus services from Glastonbury town (GF1 Wed to Mon) timetables and fares, see below.
2024 Bus from Bath
Service 174
Take the 174 bus from Bath Bus Station to Shepton Mallet and connect into the festival bus services from there (GF2 Wed to Mon) timetables and fares, see below.
2024 Bus from Castle Cary train station
There's a free shuttle bus for Festival ticket-holders running between Castle Cary Station and the Festival Bus Station throughout the Festival. The bus station is next to Pedestrian Gate A. The shuttle operates from Wednesday to Monday (there is no service during the night when trains aren't running). Remember you will need your Festival ticket to use the bus service to the site.
Please be aware that trolleys will not be permitted on this service.
Castle Cary Station Rail & Ride 2024 | First service departs | Services run approximately | Last service departs Festival Bus Station | Last service departs Castle Cary |
Wednesday June 26th | 06:00 | Every 15 minutes | 21:00 | 23:00 |
Thursday June 27th | 07:00 | Every 15 minutes | 21:00 | 23:00 |
Friday June 28th | 09:00 | Every 15 minutes | 21:00 | 23:00 |
Saturday June 29th | 09:00 | Every 60 minutes | 16:30 | 17:15 |
Sunday June 30th | 08:00 | Every 30 minutes | 19:30 | 19:45 |
Monday July 1st | 03:00 | Every 15 minutes | 18:00 | n/a |
2024 Glastonbury Town shuttle bus
Service GF1
Fare (single) Glastonbury Town: £4.50, West Pennard: £3.50
Calls at West Pennard bus stop 5 minutes after departing from Glastonbury Town Hall.
Glastonbury & West Pennard GF1 2024 | Services From Glastonbury Town Hall | Services From Festival Bus Station |
Wednesday June 26th | 07:00 hourly until 22:00 Last service 22:00 | 08:30 hourly until 22:30 Last service 22:30 |
Thursday June 27th | 07:00 hourly until 22:00 Last service 22:00 | 07:30 hourly until 22:30 Last service 22:30 |
Friday June 28th | 07:00 hourly until midnight Last service midnight | 07:30 hourly until 23:30 then half hourly from 00:01 Saturday to 02:00 Saturday Last service 02:00 Saturday |
Saturday June 29th | 07:00 hourly until Midnight Last service midnight | 07:30 hourly until 23:00 then half hourly from 00:01 Sunday to 02:00 Sunday Last service 02:00 Sunday |
Sunday June 30th | 07:00 half hourly until 12:00 then hourly until midnight Last service midnight | 07:30 hourly until 23:30 then every fifteen minutes until 02:15 Monday Last service 02:15 Monday |
Monday July 1st | 07:00 hourly until 18:00 Last service 18:00 | 06:30 hourly until 18:30 Last service 18:30 |
2024 Wells, Shepton Mallet, Cannard's Grave Bus Service
Service GF2
Wells via Shepton Mallet Town Centre (Cenotaph) and Cannards Grave. N.B. For departures from Cannards Grave, please use times from Cenotaph as a guide.
Fare (single) Wells: £4.50, Shepton Mallet £4.00, Cannards Grave £4
Wells, Shepton Mallet & Cannards Grave GF2 2024 | Services from Wells Bus Station | Services from Shepton Mallet | Services from Cannard’s Grave | Services from Festival Bus Station |
Wednesday June 26th | 09:45 hourly until 19:45, 21:15 Last service 21:15 | 10:00 hourly until 20:00, 21:30 Last service 21:30 | 10:05 hourly until 20:05, 21:35 Last service 21:35 | 10:30 hourly until 20:30, 22:05 Last service 22:05 |
Thursday June 27th | 09:45 hourly until 19:45, 21:15 Last service 21:15 | 10:00 hourly until 20:00, 21:30 Last service 21:30 | 10:05 hourly until 20:05, 21:35 Last service 21:35 | 10:30 hourly until 20:30, 22:05 Last service 22:05 |
Friday June 28th | 09:45 hourly until 22:45 Last service 22:45 | 10:00 hourly until 23:00, Last service 23:00 | 10:05 hourly until 23:05, Last service 23:05 | 10:30 hourly until 01:30 Saturday Last service 01:30 Saturday |
Saturday June 29th | 09:45 hourly until 21:45 Last service 21:45 Sunday | 10:00 hourly until 22:00, Last service 22:00 | 10:05 hourly until 22:05, Last service 22:05 Sunday | 10:30 hourly until 01:30 Sunday Last service 01:30 Sunday |
Sunday June 30th | 09:45 hourly until 21:45 Last service 21:45 | 10:00 hourly until 22:00, Last service 22:00 | 10:05 hourly until 22:05, Last service 22:05 | 10:30 hourly until 02:30 Monday Last service 02:30 Monday |
Monday July 1st | 07:45 hourly until 15:45 Last service 15:45 | 08:00 hourly until 16:00 Last service 16:00 | 08:05 hourly until 16:05 Last service 16:05 | 07:30 hourly until 16:30 Last service 16:30 |
2024 Festival Bus Station - Bristol Temple Meads (Sunday & Monday only)
Service GF3
Fare £32 single
Calls at The Haymarket after Temple Meads Station.
Bristol GF3 2024 | Services From Festival Bus Station towards Bristol only |
Sunday June 30th | 11:00, 12:00, 14:00, 16:00, 18:00 hourly until 23:00 Last service 23:00 |
Monday July 1st | 00:01, 01:00 hourly until 08:00, 08:30 half hourly until 16:00, then hourly until 19:00 Last service 19:00 |
2024 Castle Cary Station – Worthy View Campsite Shuttle Service
Service GF4
Shuttle between Castle Cary Station and Worthy View. This is a free service for guests staying at Worthy View. This service will operate on Wednesday & Thursday, Sunday & Monday to connect to and from rail services.
Castle Cary Station - Worthy View Shuttle GF4 2024 | Services run between: |
Wednesday June 26th | 08:00 - 23:59 |
Thursday June 27th | 08:00 - 23:59 |
Friday June 28th | No service |
Saturday June 29th | No service |
Sunday June 30th | 12:00 - 20:00 |
Monday July 1st | 01:00 - 14:30 |
2024 Festival Bus Station – Worthy View Campsite Shuttle Service
Service GF5
Shuttle between Festival Bus Station and Worthy View. This is a free service for guests staying at Worthy View. The service operates from Wednesday to Monday.
Festival Bus Station - Worthy View Shuttle GF5 2024 | Services run between: |
Wednesday June 26th | 10:00 - 23:00 |
Thursday June 27th | 10:00 - 23:00 |
Friday June 28th | 10:00 - 22:00 |
Saturday June 29th | 10:00 - 22:00 |
Sunday June 30th | 12:00 - 21:00 |
Monday July 1st | 01:00 - 14:30 |
2024 North Wootton Bus Service
Service GF6
Fare: £4.50 (single)
North Wootton GF6 2024 | Services from North Wootton (Crossways Hotel) | Services from Festival Bus Station |
Wednesday June 26th | 15:45, 17:45, 19:45, 21:45, 23:45 | 15:20, 17:20, 19:20, 21:20, 23:20 |
Thursday June 27th | 15:45, 17:45, 19:45, 21:45, 23:45 | 15:20, 17:20, 19:20, 21:20, 23:20 |
Friday June 28th | 09:45, 11:45, 13:45, 15:45, 17:45, 19:45, 21:45, 23:45 | 09:20, 11:20, 13:20, 15:20, 17:20 19:20, 21:20, 23:20, 00:30 Sat |
Saturday June 29th | 09:45, 11:45, 13:45, 15:45, 17:45, 19:45, 21:45, 23:45 | 09:20, 11:20, 13:20, 15:20, 17:20 19:20, 21:20, 23:20, 00:30 Sun |
Sunday June 30th | 09:45, 11:45, 13:45, 15:45, 17:45, 19:45, 21:45, 23:00 | 09:20, 11:20, 13:20, 15:20, 17:20 19:20, 21:20, 23:20, 00:30 Mon |
Fancy cycling to the Festival this year? After all, it can be much quicker and not to mention greener.
With Bike To Glasto you can cycle to the field free of charge and leave your bike in a secure compound. If you don’t want the hassle of attempting to load your bike with your luggage and tent, they have a couple of luggage solutions available for a small fee.
If you live in Somerset, there are drop off locations throughout the county, and also one in west London. Alternatively, they can arrange for a courier to collect your bags from home and deliver them to the site for you. Both of these options include the return journey as well, leaving you to cycle to and from the Festival unencumbered.
As well as having secure bike compounds, there is also a secure campsite area for cyclists along with showers and toilets.
For more details visit the Bike To Glasto website
If driving to the Festival, please join us in our pledge to reduce carbon emissions by sharing lifts. Car sharing is not only better for the environment, but will also help share the cost of fuel.
As with your Festival tickets, car park passes are non-transferable, and attempts to re-sell them may result in their cancellation. Refunds are available prior to the ticket refund deadline.
Directions
• From south London: M3 then A303 and A37. (Sat Nav TA11 7DP).
• From Swindon: M4 then A350 onto the A361. (Sat Nav BA4 4LY).
• From the North East: A1 or M1, M25 to M3 (Junction 12), then A303 and A37. (Sat Nav TA11 7DP)
• From the Midlands: Preferably M40 and A34 to A303 and A37. (Sat Nav TA11 7DP)
• From the North West: M6, M5 to A39 (Junction 23) then A361. (Sat Nav BA6 9XE)
• From Wales: M4, M5 to A39 (as above) (Sat Nav BA6 9XE)
• For more local traffic using the A37 North or A361 East (Sat Nav BA4 4LY)
PLEASE NOTE – your satnav will not get you all the way to the Festival site but to the start of the Festival signage. Please follow the Festival signs as soon as you see those.
It is important that you approach the site on the side that you want to park. Using local roads to get to the opposite side of the site causes delays so use main roads that are well away from the site. A few extra miles travelled further away can save hours in queues near to the site. Always follow the directional signs, variable message signs and park where directed by staff.
Also please note that those who parked on the east side of the site last year had the shortest queues at the pedestrian gates and the shortest queues getting out on Monday.
Arriving/parking
GLASTONBURY 2024: Car parks will open at 9pm on the Tuesday before Glastonbury 2024, allowing Festival-goers to arrive throughout the night, when traffic volumes are low. There will, however, be no entertainment or facilities (other than toilets) in the car parks and Festival-goers will be expected to remain in their cars until the Festival gates open at 8am on Wednesday morning. Most people choose to eat locally or en-route and then arrive in the early hours.
There are four main entrances for cars, depending upon where you are coming from. Follow the P signs to get to the nearest available parking spaces. Sometimes parking staff have to fill some of the car parks further from the site before some that are closer. This is done to keep traffic moving on the public highways and keep us at peak parking capabilities for as long as possible. Parking at any time is dependent upon the traffic on the highway so you cannot plan to park in a particular parking field other than parking on the East or West side.
If you have a choice, use the Blue Route (approach from the A303, then the A37), where there is more parking space and less of a queue to get in and out of the site.
Anyone heading for the family campsite by the Acoustic field should take the Purple Route into the Festival (this is signed off the A37, follow the purple patches on the road signs).
The worst time to arrive by car is between 7am and 2pm on Wednesday. In recent years at peak times, the A39 queue to get into car parks took several hours, while it took less than an hour for those travelling on the A37.
Where you park
Most people want to park as near as possible to the pedestrian entrances (because they feel they have a lot to carry, or are old, or young, or pregnant, or ill, or just tired). Unfortunately it can't work like that. The choice you make is which side of the site to approach from, and after that it depends which field the stewards are filling at that time. It's really down to luck, whereabouts in the car park you end up.
Check where you are parked before you leave the car park
Use the cards provided by the AA to note the route colour and car park number. Trying to find a car amongst the thousands parked can be a nightmare. Look for the flag with the car park number and remember the position in the field. Some of the car parks are over half a km from site so be prepared to carry your kit a fair distance both in the car parks and on site.
Leaving and returning to the car park during the Festival
It is possible to leave the car park and return during the Festival. The cars are parked in rows with decent turning space in between the rows and the car pass works each time you enter. Most likely you will be parked in a different place on your return, though.
Top tip: book your car keys into one of the free property lockups once you go through the pedestrian gate and enter the festival site – you really don’t want to lose your car keys at the festival! You can reclaim your keys anytime if you need to return to your car.
Leaving the Festival
The worst times to leave by car are on Monday between 8am and 5pm when there can be long delays of up to 9 hours to leave the car parks. Beat the queues by leaving between 1am and 7am on Monday morning – if you can get up! The Festival is doing everything possible to reduce queuing but there is only so much capacity on the roads. If you need to be anywhere on Monday leave early – and have plenty of water and food as you will queue.
When leaving the festival please be aware that journey times on the A39 back to the M5 can be a couple of hours and on the A37 to Bristol can be up to 4 hours. Over the past few years the best route for exit has been south on the A37 to the A303 and then east to the A34 for the Midlands and North or onto the M3 for London. Also consider using the A361 towards Frome and then the A350 towards Swindon to get to the M4 from there pick up routes to the Midlands North and East.
The Festival traffic plan will direct vehicles from each parking area in different directions to reduce the volume on each route.
The Festival licence runs until 5.00pm on Monday and we are expected to have cleared the car parks by that time, if possible. From 5.00pm traders and contractors start leaving the site and all the roads are clogged. We would not have security on the car parks after 5.00pm – so please plan your exit before then.
Make sure you are OK to drive. Drug driving is not a safe trip. When did you last have a drink? You see more police around the site than you do for the rest of the year. Do not risk it! Wait until you are OK – you know it makes sense.
Electric Car Charging
Worthy Farm is a rural location with limited capacity to offer electrical vehicle charging on site – but this shouldn’t put you off from arriving in an EV!
Just as drivers of petrol or diesel cars need to have sufficient fuel for their entire journey, if you’re travelling to the Festival in an electric or hybrid vehicle, you must have sufficient battery charge for your journey.
- Charge before you arrive! As a rule of thumb, if you have less than 50 miles of charge on approach to the site, you’ll need to juice up. Keep in mind that you need to have sufficient charge for your return journey, and local charge points will be busy!
- Plan your vehicle charging stops. Use an electric car charging app like Electroverse from Octopus, who are once again partnering with the Festival & providing a wind turbine on site. Featuring over 650,000 chargepoints on the network, EV drivers can find, navigate and start a charging session with Electroverse – no matter where they are. The Electroverse route-mapping feature can help plot your journey to the Festival and ensure you arrive with good charge. Enter your start/end location and desired battery percentage, and the route mapper will plan a journey with dedicated charging stops. You can also follow the route directly from your electric vehicle, using Apple CarPlay or Android Auto.
- Please note the village of Pilton will be stewarded to ensure resident safety which will mean any charging points shown in the village will be unavailable to the general public.
- An emergency recovery charging facility will be available at Bronze car park only, off the A361. This limited, first come, first served service run by the AA (to members and non-members), is charged at a fixed cost of £50 for up to an hour’s charge / 80% battery (whichever is sooner). Payment is by card only. Please note this service is for emergency use only and cannot be guaranteed, so please do charge before you arrive.
Breakdown
If you arrive on site and your car needs attention, get it sorted ASAP so it will be ready when you need to leave. On Monday all recovery services are very busy. A locksmith is situated by Bronze Gate if you lose your keys or lock them in your car.
For AA Service at Glastonbury, ring their dedicated Festival hotline on 0330 053 0338. Special rates apply for non-members who wish to join and receive immediate service. Also, AA staff will be in East 9, off Purple Route, and at Bronze Gate in West 32 throughout the week, and the AA’s dedicated Key Assist vehicles will be on site from Saturday.
People with disabilities
Unless you are pre-registered for the accessible car park, people with a Blue Badge should display the badge clearly next to their official festival parking ticket when entering the public car parks and Stewards will direct you to the forward parking (this may still be some distance from the gates). All festival goers needing parking will need an official parking ticket.
If you have further enquiries regarding disabled access and transport please refer to the Festival’s Access information.
Cars and climate change
CO2 is the main cause of climate change and arguably the single biggest pollution threat that humankind faces today. Road transport accounts for around 25% of Britain’s emissions. The least polluting cars emit around 100g of C02 per km, while the most polluting emit around 520g. The main ways to cut emissions are to drive less, reduce fuel use by choosing more fuel-efficient vehicles and by car-sharing wherever possible.
Traffic news
Check out the Festival website and Twitter account for the latest travel news. Once within range (about 10 miles) tune into Worthy FM on 87.7 FM – it’s good for traffic news both when you arrive and when you leave – and listen in to the morning show each day to find out what is happening on site.
Improvements
The Festival team have worked hard over the years to improve access and egress, aided by the addition of numerous roads and tracks, and changes to layouts to reduce congestion. We are still parking on farmland and will be subject to weather conditions, but going forward we have a more robust operation than we have ever had to cope with what mother nature throws at us.
For full information on campervans/caravans at Glastonbury, please click here.
Motorcycles (including quad bikes) are not allowed on site. They must be parked in the free, secure compound near the Festival Bus Station. To find this, follow signs for Yellow Route and staff will then direct you. Motorcycles do not require a car parking pass.
Once at the motorbike compound, security staff will fill in a slip with your bike details on, colour, number plate, make, model etc, and you park it up. This slip enables you to re-enter the compound to get the bike out. You can leave your helmet – and your road clothes – in the free property lockups available once inside the Festival site if you don’t want to leave your helmet chained to your bike.
If arriving on two wheels, make sure you don't load up with more than you can carry. Get the weight distributed so it does not affect the bike's centre of balance. Give everything a good tug once loaded; it's better that it comes off now than whilst on the road.
The closest international airport to Glastonbury Festival is Bristol International Airport. This airport serves a number of European destinations.
National Express runs coach services from Heathrow Airport directly to the Festival. Return tickets must be pre-booked and are available online here.
There is also a regular bus link from Bristol airport called, "A1 - Bristol Airport Flyer", which will take you from the airport to Bristol Temple Meads railway station. Regular buses go from the bus stop on the main road outside the station (374/375/376) to Glastonbury Town where a bus (GF1) can be caught to the Festival Bus Station on our site.
Glastonbury Festival does not endorse or facilitate travel by helicopter, except for operational purposes.
Car-sharing is a great way to travel to Glastonbury Festival. It allows those with cars to offer lifts to and from the Festival in return for a share of the fuel cost, reducing the number of cars on our roads and helping drivers lighten the financial cost of travel. There are a number of car sharing organisations which pair drivers with passengers (these operators are not affiliated with Glastonbury and operate independently of the Festival).
The Glastonbury Abbey Extravaganza concert will return on Saturday, August 3rd, 2024, with a headline performance from Keane who are celebrating the 20th anniversary of their acclaimed debut album, Hopes And Fears. Also performing in the Abbey’s historic surroundings will be the Shepton Mallet Big Band, plus special guests to be announced! The event will conclude with the traditional fireworks finale.
Tickets cost £45 for adults and £25 for children aged up to 16. Any remaining tickets will cost £50 / £30 on the gate. Glastonbury Abbey PLUS members receive a 10% discount on tickets (you will need your membership card number to purchase).
Tickets purchased online before 5pm on Wednesday 13th of December will be posted before Christmas. Tickets purchased after this date will be posted before the event. The Glastonbury Abbey shop has closed temporarily due to the abbey’s town deal piazza project. However, tickets can be purchased for Christmas from the temporary ticket office at the abbey’s temporary entrance on Magdalene Street up until 3pm on December 24th.
Camping for this years Extravaganza is now sold out.
Accessibility information
For information about the accessible facilities available at the Abbey Extravaganza, please email access.team@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk. The team will then send you the accessible information and the Extravaganza specific accessible application form.
BEFORE APPLYING WITH US- you will need to apply for the Nimbus Access Card if you do not already have one- please visit this link to apply for the Nimbus Access Card- Access Card: Making access easy the details on this unique card are then used as the evidence for our Extravaganza specific application.
Important to note:
- The accessible parking at SILVER Street has limited spaces and are reserved for those with mobility difficulties primarily. These tickets can be obtained via the Extravaganza specific accessibility application form. PLEASE DO NOT BUY SILVER STREET PARKING TICKETS FROM ANY COMPANY FOR THIS EVENT. If you do you will need to contact that company to request a refund as the ticket will be invalid. Please apply for these accessible parking passes via the access team at the email address above.
- Applications for Carer/PA tickets CANNOT be accepted if the applicant has brought their own ticket from an external ticket vendor such as Twickets. Please see the terms and conditions when purchasing your ticket from Glastonbury Abbey at this link: Glastonbury Abbey Extravaganza | What’s On | Glastonbury Abbey
This area of the website has been created to highlight the colourful offerings of the town of Glastonbury itself. Many wrongly assume that this pretty town, seven miles from the Festival site, will be overrun with Festival-goers during the days throughout the event. But it’s actually one of the best times to visit this ancient market town, with its famous Tor, beautiful Abbey and wide range of shops and cafés. But whatever time of year you’re in the area, the town is well worth a visit.
Here’s our guide to some of the town’s year-round highlights:
Glastonbury Tor
Known as The ‘Isle of Avalon’, Glastonbury Tor is located in the heart of Celtic mythology, and positions itself naturally and exquisitely on the eastern periphery of Glastonbury town. Following an earthquake in 1275, the original wooden church was destroyed, and the shell tower is all that remains of St. Michaels Church, which replaced the wooden church in 15th Century. This stands on the tor which is an impressive mark on the landscape of Somerset.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/glastonbury-tor/
The Assembly Rooms
The Assembly Rooms is arguably the birthplace of the first “Glastonbury Festival”, held back in 1915. Then known as the Rural Arts Festival, Rutland Boughton crafted what was a contemporary experiment of drama and music. It somewhat paved the way for the festival we have now, certainly setting the mystical scene of what was to come. Regularly invited to the festival were T.E. Lawrence, George Bernard Shaw and Thomas Hardy. The enchanting 19th Century Somerset vibes are amplified through the beamed roof and stoned walls, making it the perfect venue for the early festivities and adding character to the events that happen today.
assemblyrooms.org.uk/welcome/
Glastonbury Abbey
Glastonbury Abbey is beaten in size only by its sibling in Westminster. Despite its partial destruction in Henry VIII’s dissolution of monasteries, this spectacular feat of craftsmanship is not a lost message. Stretching parallel to the High Street it is accompanied by a tranquil garden. Take a relaxing stroll amongst a formidable setting. With the earliest known documentation of it from the 8th Century, King Arthur features in the story surrounding this magnificent build, which also hosts the annual Glastonbury Abbey Extravaganza concert organised by Michael Eavis.
www.glastonburyabbey.com
Glastonbury High Street
Take a leap into the cult world of crystal shops and dragon dens. Better known, every day retailers would actually look out of place amongst the scene of myth and legend. Go and explore – and, among many wonderful cafes and restaurants, look out for Gigi’s Italian at the bottom of town, which Michael Eavis says is his favourite eatery.
St. Michael’s Ley Line
The fact that Glastonbury lies on a ley line could be totally irrelevant and the town’s genuine heritage and deep mystery would still stand, but the matter of the fact is that it does! Glastonbury and the St. Michaels ley line co-exist together to enrich the value of one another. It’s a ley line that goes from St Michaels Mount to Hopton, and also passes through Avebury and Bury St. Edmunds. The May Day sunrise lines eastbound down the line.
Glastonbury Festival Office
Originally the base for the Festival within the town of Glastonbury, the office is an understated reminder of the existence of the event that is held in nearby Pilton. With many of its staff having recently moved over to new offices on Worthy Farm, this building now serves many purposes, including housing Children’s World Charity, and musical workshops for children. Located in Northload Street, it is just a very brief walk from the High Street.
Northload St, Glastonbury, BA6 9JJ.
For more on the Glastonbury area, see the town’s page on the Visit Somerset website. Or visit Glastonbury Online – an independent, not-for-profit community website – for more information about the town and its events.
There are five Information Points offering help and advice about everything on-site from music to markets and more, as well as local off-site information. They can help you contact the right people when needed, such as in the event of an emergency or if you have lost something or are feeling unwell. Their locations are shown on the map below and there is an additional Info point at Worthy View for people camping there.
You can hand in found property at any Info Point and take your mail for posting. They also have phone numbers for cancelling lost bank cards and a landline for emergency calls. Wheelchair users can charge their wheelchair batteries (bring your charger) and Main Info by the Meeting Point has an induction loop for hearing aid users.
They give travel information and there is also an additional Travel Enquiries Cabin outside PGA by the Festival bus station.
Info Points give out useful free stuff such as loo rolls, detailed site maps, ear plugs, squirts of sunscreen, condoms, period products and The Glastonbury Free Press newspaper. They also sell Festival goodies such as mugs, cups, water bottles and copies of the official Festival Programme.
You can get writeable children’s wristbands from all Info Points and they also issue Challenge 21 wristbands, with valid proof of identity and age.
Opening times: The Main Info Point, which is next to the Meeting Point, is open 24 hours from Wednesday 8am through to 4pm on Monday. The four other Info Points are mostly open from early morning until midnight, from Wednesday to Sunday, with the Info Point at Pedestrian Gate A (PGA) staying open until Monday afternoon.
Glastonbury Festival is the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world and a template for all the festivals that have come after it. And it is simply unlike anywhere else.
The Festival takes place in a beautiful location – 900 acres in the Vale of Avalon, an area steeped in symbolism, mythology and religious traditions dating back many hundreds of years. It’s where King Arthur may be buried, where Joseph of Arimathea is said to have walked, where ley lines converge. And the site is ENORMOUS – more than a mile and a half across, with a perimeter of about eight and a half miles.
It’s like going to another country; a thrilling and vibrant cultural melting-pot and inspirational Brigadoon that appears every year or so. Coming to Glastonbury involves a bit of travel, and probably a queue to get in but, when you get past these impediments, you enter a huge tented city, a mini-state under canvas. British law still applies, but the rules of society are a bit different, a little bit freer. Everyone is here to have a wild time in their own way.
Each area across the Festival site has its own unique character. There are the bustling main-act arenas of Pyramid and Other stages; the festival within a festival, up at The Park; the sylvan enchantment of The Wood and its vibrant Woodies stage; and the phenomenal builds of Shangri-La, The Common, Silver Hayes and Block 9. Glastonbury is an audio/visual Wonderland welcoming exploration.
There’re also family oriented areas like the Kidzfield and the Green Kids Field, and astounding discoveries to be made in the Theatre & Circus fields. And if you’re into the more alternative aspects of festival life, you can always head up to the Field of Avalon, the Tipi Field, and the Green Fields – home to the Sacred Space and its stone circle.
Then there are the people; thousands of them in all their astonishing and splendid diversity! There is only one common characteristic of a Glastonbury-goer – they understand that Glastonbury Festival offers them more opportunity than any other to have the best weekend of the year or even of a life-time, and they are determined to have it! You’ll meet all kinds of people, of all ages, backgrounds, nationalities, lifestyles, faiths, concepts of fashion (or lack of it) and musical taste. Some will undoubtedly wear silly hats or buy shirts that they’ll never wear again… until next year, that is. The overall vibe of the Festival is consistently mellow and friendly, even in the event of rain and all that comes with rain, a field and thousands upon thousands of tramping feet.
There will be moments when you ask yourself the inevitable: “Why can’t life always be like this?” There will be enlightenments, awakenings, surreal happenings and Damascene epiphanies. Sometimes the most wonderful things you’ll experience will have been booked well in advance – but often it will be something spontaneous, a moment converged in time and space. No two people’s Festival experience will be the same unless they’re tied together, in which case they’re probably part of a theatre company.
It’s best not to come to Glastonbury with a head full of preconceptions and a notebook full of plans of what you want to see. If there are one or two particular bands a day you really want to see, then let your day revolve around them and go with the flow. Hurrying between stages so you can tick off a list of things you feel you must see is not the best way to enjoy Glastonbury. If you can’t get a good vantage point, or aren’t enjoying a show, move on; there’ll be something else in the next field that might just change your way of seeing the world! Often, your best memories of the Festival will be of new things that have startled you with their brilliance.
The Festival’s objectives
Michael Eavis documented the following when registering the company, and it is as relevant now as it was when first written.
The Glastonbury Festival aims to encourage and stimulate youth culture from around the world in all its forms, including pop music, dance music, jazz, folk music, fringe theatre, drama, mime, circus, cinema, poetry and all the creative forms of art and design, including painting, sculpture and textile art.
A large area of the Festival (the “green” area) is set aside for complementary and alternative medicine, demonstrations and displays of environmentally-friendly technologies and techniques, various forms of religious expression, and a forum for debating environmental, social and moral issues.
The Festival organises market places, selling an enormous range of wares, and which place particular emphasis on offering high quality prepared food and hand-made goods, including clothes and jewellery.
In addition to this, the company distributes large amounts of money to Greenpeace, Oxfam, Water Aid and other humanitarian causes which enhance the fabric of our society. In the running of the event the Festival deliberately employs the services of these organisations, increasing the amounts they can raise towards their objectives.
Paid work
The number of people employed full-time directly by the Festival is relatively small, and largely in administrative roles, including:
- Finance, licensing, customer services, and general administration
- Infrastructure, procurement & coordination of temporary infrastructure, site design & layout (AutoCAD knowledge preferable)
- Site, sanitation, environmental and ground works
Please note, the Festival offices are in rural Somerset, with limited public transport infrastructure outside of the Festival period.
Jobs in the offices can last from a couple of weeks to longer term, depending on the job.
For temporary staff, most departments begin recruiting from the late Autumn, into the early New Year, for positions commencing in the Spring. Please keep an eye on the vacancies section below for updates. Roles will be advertised on our website in the first instance.
Please bear in mind that none of these jobs are an easy way into the Festival: they involve hard work and not much time off over the Festival period. Festival or events experience can be beneficial, but it’s not essential!
In order to work for Glastonbury Festival you must have the Right to Work in the UK. Individuals from outside the UK must be in possession of a work permit to allow them to take up employment. For more information please visit the Government’s Working in the UK website. As most roles are for a short period, our ability to gain a UK work permit for potential employees from outside the UK is extremely limited.
Current Vacancies
Technical Comms Night Shift Manager
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
If you require any reasonable adjustments as part of the recruitment process or when employed, then do let us know.
The team can be contacted on hr@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk
Work experience placements
If you would like to enquire about the possibility of a placement, it is essential that any enquiry clearly specifies available dates. Placements are often not possible to facilitate due to our team only being at the Festival site for a short time.
Other work
www.ctm.uk.com employ car parking staff from the Sunday before the Festival until the Monday after the Festival – staff are required to work a minimum of four 12 hour shifts.
Newthorn – Glastonbury@Newthorn.co.uk – provide onsite traffic services: vehicle chaperones, permissive access, one-way, crossings, minibus & tractor drivers – not an exhaustive list. All roles are paid except drivers, which are work for ticket.
Market traders do require staff. If you know of traders who come to the Festival, get in touch with them early as they have limited number of passes for each stall.
Working for your ticket
There are opportunities to work for different organisations and charities providing services for the Festival. Normally people are required to work three 8 hour shifts for their ticket, but it does vary slightly. In some cases you would be required to pay for the ticket in advance, and would be reimbursed after completing the required hours.
PLEASE DO NOT RISK FALLING VICTIM TO FRAUD.
We have received reports of bogus volunteering schemes, where individuals/companies claiming to be recruiting for Festival work, are asking for a deposit to secure a space. If you are unsure about the legitimacy of a company asking you to pay for a deposit, please feel free to contact the Festival on help@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk
If you have already fallen victim, you will need to contact Action Fraud: Tel: 0300 123 2040 / https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/
- Oxfam have been working with Glastonbury for over 25 years. Register your interest to join a 2000 strong volunteering team with roles on the gates, campaigning with the public or helping in the Oxfam festival shop. The money raised from your shifts supports Oxfam’s work to end global poverty. Go to www.oxfam.org.uk/festivals to find out more.
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Join the Festaff stewarding team at Glastonbury with 3 x 8 hours shifts per volunteer required to secure your pass for the event. Shifts are 24hrs from Wed–Sun and are on light enjoyable customer facing tasks where you will be supported by supervisors and our experienced team. www.festaff.co.uk
- If you have medical, paramedic or first aid qualifications, you can apply to join Dr Chris Howes’ team of volunteers by completing the application on the website www.festival-medical.com.
- Tent stewards and campsite wardens are recruited from local carnival clubs, parent teachers associations, sports clubs and voluntary groups. Over the past five years the Festival has trained thousands of individuals, has a waiting list of organisations wishing to raise funds in this way.
- Property lockups are run by different peace and environmental groups, so if you are a member of such a group, you might wish to check if your local branch is involved.
- If you already volunteer for a charity, you may be able to work at the Festival through them. Check out if they are coming to Glastonbury. Similarly, if you are a Samaritan, you could investigate joining their Festival Branch.
- Oasis Carnival recruit workers for stewarding/working on the outside of the Festival for people looking to work in exchange for their ticket. You can find more information at www.oasiscarnival.co.uk or e-mail info@oasiscarnival.co.uk.
Post Festival Clear Up Crew
Short term, casual paid work is available with the Clear Up Crew, who complete the litter pick after the Festival. Due the nature of the work, staffing requirements may vary due to fluctuating demands and factors outside of our control, such as the weather. A festival ticket is not offered with this role, but it is open to those with or without a ticket. Please keep an eye here for details of how to apply in future.
Accessibility for Crew, Artists & Volunteers
If you are attending the Festival as a volunteer, member of crew or as a performer and you need to use the Festival’s access provision you will need to complete the Festival’s Crew Accessibility Application. Please contact crew.accessibility@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk in the New Year to request this. We ask that you do not make an application until your position at the Festival has been confirmed.
First of all, thank you to everyone who handed something in at last year’s festival, you made a lot of people very happy!
Until the end of Monday 26th June you can head up to the LAFS (Lost and Found Services) tent at the top of Big Ground (up the hill, to the right of Worthy FM and the Churches Welcome) and attempt to collect your belongings from there.
Please hand in any items to here, or to the Information points around site, which will then be brought to the Lost and Found Services.
You can also email lostproperty@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk and AFTER THE FESTIVAL the post show team will use this email account to reunite people with their belongings.
Please only email once about your property as we will be dealing with it even if we haven’t got back to you! We receive 1000s of emails so it might take a while but we’ll try our very best to find and return your property as quickly as we can.
Remember, the more info you give, the more chance we have of finding it (so if you have a picture of the item, please attach that too). Please make the subject of your email whatever the item is (ie, “camera”, “guitar”, “wallet”).
Please send a separate email for each item e.g. bag/camera/wallet but list all the items in the first email so we can tie it up. If you lost a bag containing several items please tell us what they were in detail.
PLEASE SELECT THE APPROPRIATE CATEGORY OF MISSING ITEM, THEN COPY THAT INTO AN EMAIL AND FILL IT OUT
PASSPORTS/ DRIVING LICENCES/ OTHER FORMS OF ID
Your name:
Email address:
Mobile number:
Home number:
Address:
(For delivery)
NB: These details will only be used to reunite you with your possessions
Nationality:
Other details:
MOBILE PHONE
Your name:
Email address:
Mobile number:
Home number:
Address:
(For delivery)
NB: These details will only be used to reunite you with your possessions
IMEI number:
Make of mobile:
You can find your IMEI number:
1) From your network provider, they will have this information and they should be happy to pass it on to you.
2) From the box it came in, or sometimes the paperwork that came with it.
(The IMEI number is incredibly useful as it helps speed up the process of finding your phone. We have up to 100 of each of the most popular varieties of handset, and frequently they are locked, out of power or broken, so the IMEI number is essential for us to be able to identify yours.)
WALLET
Your name:
Email address:
Mobile number:
Home number:
Address:
(For delivery)
NB: These details will only be used to reunite you with your possessions
Brand:
Colour:
Material:
Style:
Contents:
Other details:
JEWELLERY & GLASSES
Your name:
Email address:
Mobile number:
Home number:
Address:
(For delivery)
NB: These details will only be used to reunite you with your possessions Item:
Material:
Brand:
Colour:
Distinguishing features:
KEYS
Your name:
Email address:
Mobile number:
Home number:
Address:
(For delivery)
NB: These details will only be used to reunite you with your possessions
Key brand/car model:
Number of keys:
Colours:
Other items on keyring:
Please attach picture of logo eg. Citreon/Vauxhall or whatever symbol might appear if at all possible.
BAG
Your name:
Email address:
Mobile number:
Home number:
Address:
(For delivery)
NB: These details will only be used to reunite you with your possessions
Style:
Colour:
Pattern:
Size:
Contents and other infomation:
CAMERA
Your name:
Email address:
Mobile number:
Home number:
Address:
(For delivery)
NB: These details will only be used to reunite you with your possessions
Camera make:
Camera model:
Type (digital/film):
Resolution (megapixels):
Identifiable photos (This needs to be more specific than “photos of festival”. If some photos were downloaded to a computer prior to attending the festival, please attach a small sample of the photos on the camera to your email, along with this form)
ELECTRONIC DEVICE (smartwatch/fitbit/airpods/vape etc)
Your name:
Email address:
Mobile number:
Home number:
Address:
(For delivery)
NB: These details will only be used to reunite you with your possessions
Make:
Model:
Account name or email that connects with product:
CLOTHING
Your name:
Email address:
Mobile number:
Home number:
Address:
(For delivery)
NB: These details will only be used to reunite you with your possessions
Style:
Colour:
Pattern:
Brand:
Size:
Contents and other information:
OTHER
Your name:
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Information on broadcasting and media at Glastonbury Festival can be found in the subsections below.
Accreditation for Glastonbury 2025 will open in the new year.
THE GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL BROADCASTER, RECORDING AND INTERNET POLICY 2024
BACKGROUND
Glastonbury Festival welcomes media interest in our unique event and we do try to accommodate media coverage wherever possible. However, the Festival does have a media access policy and we would be grateful if you could consider the below before suggesting any proposals to the Festival.
Historically, these policies were aimed primarily at media and filming crews. More recently, the proliferation of personal recording equipment (smartphones, handheld digital cameras etc) has meant that these policies will apply to many more people attending the Festival, including but not limited to media, artists and their teams, traders, stages and venues at the Festival and the Festival’s suppliers. Ticket holding members of the public are required to adhere to the Festival’s Public Video Camera Policy
As with previous years, filming and the recording of audio and/or audio visual material access will be limited and we also restrict the number of film crews on site to protect the privacy and enjoyment of festival goers.
The Glastonbury Festival host broadcaster is BBC television, radio and online. The BBC are the Festival’s multi-media broadcast partner in the United Kingdom. BBC Worldwide are our international television distribution partners.
Glastonbury Festival owns various trademarks, for example the Glastonbury logos and the words ‘Glastonbury’ and ‘Glastonbury Festival’ are registered UK and European Trade Marks (“Glastonbury Trademarks”) and in most circumstances may not be used without our express written permission.
You may not film or record on site without the Festival’s official permission. For requests for filming or other audio and/or audio visual media activities (including without limitation podcasting and/or recording of shortform video for social media) (collectively referred to below as “Recording”) or for News accreditation the first contact should be with the Festival Press Office.
We will only consent to specific requests for Recording where both the nature of the Recording and the end use of any recordings are agreed by us in advance.
Each request will be looked at on a case-by-case basis and may be granted or refused in the Festival’s sole discretion, but before making any requests, please note for general guidance the following applies:
OFFICIAL PARTNERS
Our exclusive multimedia broadcast partners are BBC Television and BBC Radio (6 Music and Radios 1 and 2). We grant certain exclusive rights to the BBC, and BBC Television and BBC Radio have the exclusive right to film and record performances at the Festival, and film the Pyramid Stage, the Other Stage, The West Holts (Jazz World) Stage, The Park and the Woodsies Stage. The BBC also record and film the BBC Introducing Stage.
In addition BBC TV provides general broadcast reportage for the Festival. Radio coverage over the Festival weekend and after the Festival is on 6Music, Radio 1, Radio 2, 1Xtra, and Radio 5 Live. TV coverage is live on BBC2, with concert specials on BBC4. There is also extensive coverage on the BBC’s iPlayer and its other digital media channels. .
No live web content from the Festival is permitted. The Festival’s own website is at www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk. The BBC Glastonbury website is at www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury.
The Festival’s Worthy FM radio station broadcasts live on-site to the Festival and online.
You cannot undertake any form of Recording or photography on-site for commercial purposes without our express permission.
NEWS ACCESS
The Festival facilitates news access through the Press Office. We will only accredit bona fide news companies who wish to provide news coverage of the Festival for television, radio or new media. If you have a specific non-news project such as a documentary programme or a magazine programme, please contact the Press Office with a brief synopsis and details of your commission.
Any filming on-site must be for news use only and not for archive or any other use. The following news access rules will apply for any material used by broadcasters: (a) If we can provide access to performance material then up to 30 seconds of any one artist may be used (b) No more than 2 minutes of “Glastonbury” related footage (performance or otherwise) can be used in total (c) This news use right is granted for no more than 7 days for both news and magazine programmes from the last day of the Festival. This may be archived on the internet for up to 30 days.
No one may transmit, broadcast or communicate any live audio- or audio-visual images from the Glastonbury Festival site without the Festival’s prior written approval (such approval will in any event be subject to the time constraints set out in the preceding paragraph). This includes internet, social media or otherwise making available to the public in any medium. No one may transmit or facilitate the casting of text messages and/or other material (or via bluetooth or “airdrop” or other similar technology) to mobile phones either to mobile users on-site or to mobile users off-site without the prior written permission of The Festival.
OTHER BROADCASTERS AND RECORDING
As a general principle, the fewer film crews the better! We are sensitive to all of the people who come to the Festival who are there to enjoy themselves. We will also not allow any projects to go ahead which might derogate from the rights we have granted to our Official Partners or which may affect our broadcast partners or which might impact on our ethical policies. We will consider projects provided they can meet the following criteria:
4.1 No live performances may be recorded without the Festival’s express prior permission. Even in the rare circumstance of being granted you will usually need the artist’s and where relevant their record label’s permissions as well.
4.2 Crews must be kept to a minimum and be sensitive to the Festival public and their privacy. You must have full public and employers liability insurance and where requested to do so by us you must provide us with a copy of your certificate of insurance in advance of Recording (email to press@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk).
4.3 Any rights granted would normally only be for the specific programme and the transmissions/broadcasts proposed to the Festival. No archive use will be allowed. We normally require a copy of any programme for our own archive (on such formats as we may request). A facility/location fee is normally payable for Recording on-site.
4.4 You cannot include any Recordings or footage in any sponsored programme or in any form of advertising (including without limitation social media posts by or on behalf of any commercial enterprise). You may not use the Glastonbury Trademarks without further permission. We will take appropriate action, including legal action, to protect our name, image, reputation and goodwill, and our copyrights.
4.5 If you are a performer, any Recording whether for a documentary or other programme, or within a promotional video, needs specific approval and any commercial use such as DVDs or CDs or downloads needs to be approved and a commercial agreement reached with the Festival for such commercial use.
4.6 the Festival’s current policy is to not approve any requests for podcasting or similar activities on the Festival site, please also note that such recordings (regardless of where recorded) may also be prohibited in the event they contravene 4.4 above.
Recording for any purpose is restricted or prohibited in certain areas: family camping areas; children’s areas; welfare and medical areas; security and police compounds; the Acoustic Tent; all shared artiste compounds and artiste catering. The use of drone cameras (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) is strictly prohibited over the Festival site.
You should only Record in camping areas with the permission of those you are Recording and when it does not inconvenience others, or interfere with their privacy or enjoyment. In particular, we request that media outlets do not conduct “voxpops” or other interviews with Festival goers.
INTERNATIONAL SALES
Archive television programmes and current television specials are distributed by BBC Worldwide and can be seen as far afield as New Zealand, China, Brazil, Canada and the USA. BBC Radio International sends special radio programmes all around the world.
The BBC and Glastonbury Festival will produce a 1 hour and 5 hour ‘Highlights’ programme after the Festival for broadcasters around the World. The licensing of these programmes will be managed by BBC Worldwide. Please Contact the relevant person listed here https://sales.bbcstudios.com/contact
ARCHIVE CLIP FOOTAGE
Glastonbury has been filmed for television broadcast since 1994.
BBC Television took over the coverage in 1997 and has filmed the Festival ever since. The Festival now has an archive of hundreds of full sets.
Priority access to the Festival’s archive is granted to a performer’s record label or band management. Discounted rates are provided (including gratis use for artist’s own EPK and promotional use). All other broadcasters and content providers (including internet, online, social media etc) are expected to negotiate a standard commercial licence with the Festival.
All clip license requests should be directed to legal@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk. The Licensor in all instances will be Glastonbury Festivals Limited (Company number 02737866). We would normally expect an onscreen credit when material is licensed and used (‘from the Glastonbury Festival’)
If you are going to film with a video camera or a mobile phone camera you need to adhere to the Festival's policy.
- You are free to record your own visit to the Festival for your own personal home use. You will not be able to sell on any moving images of the Festival for commercial or other gain.
- Please respect the privacy of other festival goers who may not want to be filmed.
- You may not record in any of the performance areas or record performers without their prior consent. This is the law.
- Please do not bring tripods, any sort of lighting or any professional equipment. You must be aware of health and safety issues.
We hope that doesn't sound too formal, but we're sure you will understand that we need to protect other Festival goers, our performers and the integrity of Glastonbury. But please, please enjoy yourselves!
PHOTOGRAPHY AT GLASTONBURY
Glastonbury Festival welcomes media interest in our unique event and we try to accommodate coverage wherever possible. However, the Festival does have a media access policy and this extends to photography. If you wish to take photographs at Glastonbury for anything other than private personal use, you will need to have permission.
All enquiries about photographic or film coverage of the Festival for news purposes should be made to the Press Office (press@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk).
Our terms and conditions of entry are:
• No trading or other commercial activity by any ticket holder will be allowed on the Glastonbury Festival site without the Festival's prior written consent. This includes photography or photographic services. Glastonbury Festival will charge a fee for any commercial activity (including filming, photography and recording) on the Festival site if we approve this.
• A person may be denied entry to, or removed from the Festival site, if he or she is found in possession of any equipment capable of taking professional photographs, making films, sound recordings or broadcasting (or streaming); or if he or she takes any photograph, makes a film, sound recording or broadcast of anything occurring inside the perimeters of the Glastonbury Festival for commercial gain.
• A person may enter the Glastonbury Festival with photographic equipment where it is integrated into electronic communications apparatus designed for personal private use (such as a mobile telephone) and/or a personal stills camera, but the person may still be removed from the Festival site if they attempt to use this device for commercial gain.
The marks “Glastonbury” and “Glastonbury Festival” and the Glastonbury Festival logo are registered United Kingdom and European Community Trade Marks and may not be used without the express written permission of Glastonbury Festival.
Our Press Office can help with all press enquiries. The contact is press@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk. Proposals for commercial photography are only agreed in very exceptional circumstances and are usually limited to our existing sponsors or charitable partners.
Other important points to bear in mind are:
- Pit photography is at the discretion of each performer. Consent is usually given to photograph the first three songs but this is not automatic.
- Flying or filming with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs, or so-called drones) is not allowed on site before, during or after the Festival - and is strictly prohibited. We have a working site and the safety of our audience, crew and staff is paramount.
- Photographs taken at the Festival cannot be included in any sponsored programme or in any form of advertising without specific approval.
- Photography is restricted or prohibited in certain areas: family camping areas; children’s areas; welfare and medical areas; security and police compounds; all shared performer compounds. You should only photograph in camping areas with the permission of those you are photographing.
- You must respect the privacy of everyone at the Festival.
These restrictions also apply to performers’ own photographers or film crews.
Glastonbury Festival’s annual ‘thank you’ fundraising gig for villagers, workers and local people – known as the Pilton Party – returned to Worthy Farm on Friday 6th September, 2024.
The show was headlined by The Libertines, plus CMAT as well as local support.
Tickets went on sale online at See Tickets on Friday 12th July. Advance tickets were be £45 (Adult) and £20 (Child*).
Pilton Party gates open at 5pm. Live music is due to finish around 11pm, with a DJ set from Patmandu until midnight.
We are pleased to confirm the Pilton Party shuttle bus excursion ticket is back for 2024 with shuttles to the site running from Glastonbury Town Hall and Shepton Mallet Cenotaph between 5pm – 7pm, and return shuttles starting from 11pm. Excursion tickets (adult £55 / £30 child) include entry to the event plus return shuttle bus travel.
Please note, there is no accommodation / camping at Pilton Party, but head to Visit Somerset for info on places to stay.
*concession rate is for children aged 12 and under. All under 16s must be accompanied by a ticket holding adult at all times.
The Pilton Party aims to be inclusive and partly in doing so provides the following accessible facilities for those with permanent disabilities.
-Assistant ticket: If you wish to request a carer ticket please contact the access team at access.team@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk
-The event has Accessible parking and Accessible entry gate with access stewards in attendance.
-Viewing Platform with access stewards in attendance.
-Compostable Wheelchair/step free accessible toilets.
-Please contact to access team if you have any further questions or requests. access.team@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk
See below for full Pilton Party terms and conditions:
Pilton Party Terms and Conditions
• Gates open 5pm.
• Admission by ticket only.
• Tickets are non-refundable and strictly non-transferable. Photo ID required.
• Lost, destroyed or stolen tickets cannot be replaced.
• The artist and performer line-up and all billed attractions may be subject to change at any time without notice.
• The Organisers reserve the right to
– refuse admission in any circumstances
– evict any person breaching the terms and conditions of entry, committing a criminal offence, behaving in a disorderly manner or in a way that has an adverse effect on public safety, or behaving in an anti-social manner or in a way that causes a public nuisance.
– evict all members of any group of persons where that group is behaving in a persistent anti-social manner.
• All persons who enter do so at their own risk and are responsible for their own safety.
• Challenge 25 will apply both at the bar and at the gate.
• Bringing your own alcohol to the event is permitted, however you may be searched on entry, and subject to other discretionary checks on volume, and asked to show formal age verification ID. The Organisers reserve the right to confiscate alcohol from anyone who is unable to verify they are 18 or over, or carrying an excessive quantity. Anyone under the age of 16 must be accompanied by a responsible adult (aged 18 or over, who would usually be the parent, carer , legal guardian or other adult entrusted with the care of that child) who accepts full responsibility for all under 16s attending under their supervision.
• Those who are aged 16 or 17 are allowed to attend the Pilton Party unaccompanied, but it is strongly advised that this decision is made with the consent of a parent or legal guardian.
• No re-entry.
• No glass.
• Please note: vehicles left in the car park are left at owners’ risk. The Organisers cannot be held responsible for any loss or damage.
• Strictly no dogs or other animals allowed on site (except registered guide dogs).
• Please use the litter bins and recycling points provided.
• Please respect our neighbours and leave quietly to help the event to continue in the future.
• Medical treatment is provided by Festival Medical Services (FMS) who are a separate legal entity. Any claims resulting from medical treatment on-site should be directed to FMS. The Organisers accepts no liability for any injury, claim or damages resulting from any medical treatment at the event
• Please be aware: Excessive exposure to high levels of noise could damage hearing. Please take appropriate precautions.Please click for full list of Contraband Goods and Prohibited Items.
Introduction
Since it began as a small-scale event on a dairy farm in 1970, Glastonbury has become one of the world’s biggest festivals. Each year, more than 140,000 ticket-holders enjoy entertainment at over 100 stages across five days, in the heart of Somerset. You can read a brief introduction to the Festival here.
The ethos of Glastonbury Festival has not veered from the Michael Eavis’ founding objectives when first establishing the company. A summary of each Festival can be found in our History section.
Impact
From the very beginning, the aim of Glastonbury was to bring people together and celebrate diversity in culture, and it has since become a place of joy and discovery for those who attend. But the Festival has also proven to have a positive impact beyond the arts.
Environmental sustainability has been a driving force for the Festival – the Festival’s Green Fields area has always been run on solar and wind power – and after years of work and incremental increases in the use of sustainable power, in 2023 Glastonbury Festival was run entirely on renewable energy and renewable fuel. The Festival’s guiding principles of sustainability also inspired the Festival to ban the sale of single-use plastic drinks bottles across the Festival site in 2019.
To find out more about Sustainability at Glastonbury, please read our Impact Summary.
Every year, the Festival makes substantial payments to a range of charitable causes and campaigns. To read more about the Festival’s charitable contributions, please read our Worthy Causes page.
Glastonbury Festival has also shown to have a beneficial influence on both the immediate local economy and the wider economic environment. For more information please read our 2023 Economic Impact Summary below. Our previous economic impact survey, conducted in 2007, is also available below
Since it began as a small-scale event on a dairy farm in 1970, Glastonbury has become one of the world’s biggest festivals. In 2023, more than 140,000 ticket-holders enjoyed entertainment at over 100 stages across five days, in the heart of Somerset. Celebrating diversity in culture, Glastonbury has become a place of joy and discovery for attendees, but the Festival has also proven to have a positive influence beyond the arts.
In 2023 we commissioned a report to measure the Festival’s economic impact, in both the immediate local economy and the wider economic environment. The report, carried out by research specialists Fourth Street, found Glastonbury Festival to have a significant positive economic impact both nationally and in Somerset, generating around £168 million of income for UK businesses including £32 million for businesses based in Somerset.
What Glastonbury Festival spends
The total cost of putting on the 2023 Glastonbury Festival was approximately £62 million, paid across 922 organisations providing services to the Festival. Included in this are the materials and infrastructure that bring the fields to life; all the crew creating the build and managing the stages; and costs for the staff that work for the Festival throughout the year.
Of this £62 million spent by the Festival, just under £12 million was paid to 258 companies in Somerset.
What Glastonbury Festival-goers spend
Glastonbury Festival draws its audience from all over the UK and around the world. In 2023, Festival-goers were estimated to have spent £1.6 million in the wider Somerset community: a quarter of this went to businesses providing food and drink, while 50 percent of it was spent in local shops and supermarkets for provisions and supplies for the Festival.
Income generated for others
The Festival also helps generate income for other businesses outside of the Festival site – both in the local area and elsewhere. Around 900 Festival-goers stayed in local hotels and B&Bs during the Festival, spending a total in the region of £450,000. Some Festival-goers also stayed in hotels and B&Bs on the journey to and from the Festival.
Neighbouring landowners were also able to generate income, either from operating accommodation themselves in the form of B&Bs or campsites unaffiliated to the Festival, or renting their land to others to operate from. An estimated 4,000 Festival-goers stayed in privately-run, offsite campsites adjoining the Festival site, spending in the region of £6.5 million.
As well as Festival-goers, crew working for Glastonbury were estimated to have spent about £900,000 with local businesses outside the Festival during their time spent on site. Those volunteering at the Festival, are estimated to have spent a further £500,000 with local businesses.
Jobs created by Glastonbury
The sheer size, breadth and temporary nature of the Festival means it is reliant on an array of professionals to bring it to fruition. The Festival directly and indirectly sustains a broad range of jobs and industries, including IT services and plumbing, signwriting and caravan rentals, security and catering, among many others. In 2023, Glastonbury Festival sustained over 1,100 UK jobs in total, 325 of which were based in Somerset.
Of these, the Festival directly paid for work itself equivalent to around 255 full time jobs. Around 80 people worked for the Festival office in planning and administration (the equivalent of 55 full time jobs), most of whom live locally to the Festival.
In total, an additional 1,750 people worked directly for Glastonbury Festival in 2023, over shorter periods of time. These roles made up the equivalent of 200 full time jobs. Those who are self-employed estimated that on average, Glastonbury Festival accounted for 16% of their annual earnings. However, some obtain a much larger part of their annual earnings from the Festival.
Jobs created by Glastonbury for others / traders
Glastonbury Festival is more than just an arts festival; it is a food festival; a vibrant market – selling everything from bucket hats to handcrafted jewellery; and a craft and wellbeing centre, offering everything from massages to stone masonry workshops. The Festival provides many opportunities for external traders and in 2023 it featured 918 trading stalls, including 56 units which provided food and drink to crew. With a handful of exceptions, all stalls were operated by independent businesses, and staffed by 9,500 people working for around 314,000 hours – the equivalent to 170 full time jobs.
Contribution of volunteers
An incredible bank of volunteers donate their time while providing essential services to Glastonbury Festival: from stewarding and loo clean-up teams, to property lock-ups and campsite crew. These volunteers raised much needed funds for organisations including Friends of the Earth, Samaritans, Diverse UK, Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance Charity, Cancer Research UK as well as many local schools, community organisations, hospices, carnival clubs, sports clubs and other groups.
In 2023, there were more than 10,000 volunteers at Glastonbury Festival – giving around 240,000 hours of their time for over 200 not-for-profit groups. Of these, 3,511 stewards raised £700,000 in total for their chosen organisations. Oxfam and Water Aid provided 2,500 and 700 volunteers on similar terms.
Over 30 percent of those volunteering at Glastonbury Festival raised funds for organisations within the area.
Charitable Donations / social responsibility
In 2023, Glastonbury Festival was thrilled to have made payments of over £3.7m to a range of incredible charitable causes and campaigns. It is thanks to those who support the Festival that we have been able to make these donations to help those facing challenges both in the UK and across the world. In addition to this £3.7m, the Festival’s raffle of Glastonbury tickets for Oxfam’s Crowdfunder DEC Appeal raised over £1m towards the Syria-Turkey Earthquake response, while an online auction of tickets raised £116,000 for the Trussell Trust.
The Festival has also contributed to its host village of Pilton by building 52 social housing homes and upgrading the village playing fields to include a new pavilion, club house, skate park and tennis courts. The Festival also helped fund the rebuilding of the Pilton Club and Village hall, as well as the restoration of the historic Tithe Barn.
Methodology of the report
The report was based on a survey of 643 Festival-goers – interviewed face-to-face at the 2023 Festival – plus an online survey of 354 Festival staff and 148 volunteers, as well as 30 telephone interviews with local businesses.
A 2007 survey revealed that Glastonbury Festival impacts on the worldwide economy to the tune of more than £73million.
The figure was one of dozens featured in a report by Mendip District Council on the economic impact of the Somerset event.
This was the first study of its kind to be undertaken on the Festival, which was carried out by Bristol-based Baker Associates.
Its aim was to fully understand the economic effects of Glastonbury and help to support the planning of future years.
John Baker from Baker Associates said: "We were commissioned by Mendip District Council and Glastonbury Festivals to carry out the study, which is one of the first to focus on the overall economic impact of the Festival, and to improve understanding of its impacts on various areas of the local and regional economy. The study also reports on other areas that are linked to its impact on the economy, and how these issues can be looked at in the future to further build on the economic benefits that the Glastonbury Festival could bring to Mendip."
The report gives the first detailed insight into the Festival - the largest of its kind in the UK - including the £73m gross impact it has on the UK and international economies.
The following points are just an insight into some of the figures revealed through the report:
- A crowd of 177,500 people attended the Glastonbury Festival in 2007, with an average spend per person of £293.24.
- Total spending at the Festival site in Pilton by revellers and traders was about £25.6million, and off-site spend was about £26.5million, giving a total spend of about £52million directly linked to the Festival.
- Estimated spending by Glastonbury Festivals associated with staging the 2007 Festival was £21.2million (over the period November 2006 to October 2007).
- Therefore the gross spend linked to the 2007 Glastonbury Festivals (including the Glastonbury Extravaganza and the Equinox 'Pilton' Party) was more than £73million.
Speaking at the press conference, held in Pilton's Working Men's Club, Cllr Harvey Siggs, leader of Mendip District Council, said: "We noticed in the year that we didn't have a Festival that there was an economic impact in the area. So we decided last year to quantify the benefits. The report shows clearly the ripple effect from the local area right around the country."
Dick Vernon, Trading Manager for Glastonbury Festival, added: "We've always said that the Festival had a big economic impact but we've never been able to prove it. Now we have an independent group who have come up with some staggering figures."
Summing up proceedings, Michael Eavis said: "You only have to drive around Pilton to see the benefits. We've spent £880,000 on the village hall and built 18 houses, and we'd like to do a lot more."
A note from Michael Eavis
Glastonbury Festival was founded in 1970, long before people began to become concerned about climate change. Yet even then all the milk, the cider and the straw came from the farm. We were green then, and we are just as green now.
These days, of course, everyone has woken up to the fact that we really have to do something about protecting the environment and reducing our impact on it. As a Festival we’ve been exploring new ideas of how to lessen our toll on the land for as long as I can remember. As a Festival we’ve always tried to take an ecologically thoughtful approach to the way we do things, which we always hoped would inspire people.
My family have farmed this land for generations – having walked here with their cows from Dorset to set up at Park Farm in the 1860s. Looking after the fields, hedges and livestock has always been our number one concern. And today, our big campaign remains ‘Love Worthy Farm – Leave No Trace’. We are striving to leave as little an imprint on the land here as we possibly can. For me, Worthy Farm is what life here is all about.
Glastonbury Festival has always been the first to host alternative solutions to environmental concerns, and over time we’ve watched as those alternatives have become mainstream. In fact, for me, one of the greatest benefits of Glastonbury Festival has been giving people the chance to open their eyes to something better, even if it is only for one weekend in the year.
We hope that we can continue to lead the charge in sustainable living by making Glastonbury Festival as green as we are able to and by spreading the word to Festival-goers about what will really make a difference to the environment. We continue to work as hard as we can on the practical things: from encouraging people to travel by public transport to promoting some great new initiatives on waste reduction and pursuing more efficient ways of powering the Festival.
Today, just as much as in 1970, we have to work hard on our message. Glastonbury Festival is a Midsummer celebration of life and joy, but we must not lose sight of our undertaking to achieve the best possible balance of nature and resources.
Michael Eavis
Worthy Farm
In booking a ticket and attending Glastonbury Festival, you accept the Festival’s terms and conditions of entry. It is important that you read and understand all of these terms and conditions, which all ticket purchasers are required to subscribe to.
Therefore when paying your balance, you will be asked to sign our Worthy Pledge, agreeing to:
Treat the fields and the people in them with kindness and respect.
Only use the toilets provided and not pee on the land.
Dispose of rubbish carefully using the correct bins.
Keep your campsite tidy.
Take all your belongings/camping gear home with you.
We would also encourage you to read the Festival’s full environmental policies.
From the very beginning, Glastonbury Festival was established to celebrate music, culture and togetherness – inspiring a respect for both our environment and each other. This passion for the arts and all people still underpins the Festival today, and we continue to strive towards a more vibrant, inclusive and sustainable future for all.
We like to think of Glastonbury Festival as a laboratory for change. Guided by principles of environmental responsibility and social equality, we are working to implement long-lasting sustainable practices and help promote a diverse, culturally rich, inclusive and accepting world both at Glastonbury Festival and beyond our gates.
Sustainability & Environmental impact
Energy & Decarbonisation
Sustainability and respect for our environment has always been at the heart of Glastonbury Festival. Since 1984 – and the inception of the Green Fields – the Festival has been using renewable energy for power. Right from the start, all stages in the Green Fields were run on hybrid renewables (solar and/or wind) and battery systems.
Over the last 40 years, we have worked hard to extend this fossil fuel-free standard across the entire event, and since 2023, Glastonbury Festival has been powered entirely by sustainable renewable, virgin palm oil-free HVO fuel (made from bio-waste materials) and renewable energy – either from lower impact, fossil fuel-free electricity or run on solar photovoltaic and battery hybrid systems – with no reliance on diesel or any other fossil fuel for power anywhere on site at Glastonbury.
Clean energy from the Festival’s own 250kWp solar PV array, as well as our anaerobic digester and 125kVA biogas plant power, provide energy for Festival offices and some production areas as well as helping to charge some battery systems. While a temporary 300kWh wind turbine powers food stalls in the Williams Green market area during the Festival.
As well as these efforts, we continue to work hard to encourage our Festival-goers to consider their environmental footprint and use public transport to travel to Glastonbury. Each year, over 65,000 people choose to arrive by coach, train or bicycle, dramatically reducing the potential carbon footprint from transport. In 2024, we introduced a travel carbon calculator to help illustrate the impact different modes of transport – and occupancy – have on carbon emissions, as a way of further inspiring sustainable travel choices both for travel to and from the Festival, and hopefully beyond it.
Decarbonisation continues to remain a priority for Glastonbury Festival. As part of the Festival’s commitment to further reduce CO2e emissions, the number and size of HVO-powered generators has been steadily decreasing over the years. Working closely with the Festival’s temporary power contractor and energy consultants, we have been focusing on improving generator energy efficiency as well as steadily increasing the amount of renewables and batteries used on site, which help to further reduce HVO fuel use.
Over the years, Glastonbury has also been investing in grid-connected mains power with a view to taking certain areas of the Festival off generators altogether. These upgrades and advancements to mains connectivity – which is supplied by a combination of Worthy Farm’s own on-site solar and biogas plant and a 100% renewable energy tariff – have completely removed the need for generators and fuel in various locations, and work continues to connect other areas of the site to the same renewables-powered mains grid energy.
Through this work to expand our use of renewable energy, encourage greener travel among our Festival-goers and our dedication to embracing technological innovations to help further reduce our CO2e emissions, we aim to create a Festival that is as sustainable as possible.
Waste & Recycling
In order to reduce plastic consumption, in 2019 Glastonbury banned the sale of single-use plastic bottles which has reduced the number of items of disposable plastic on site by millions. Glastonbury continues to address these issues by only allowing the sale of crisps in compostable packets, which was introduced in 2022, and banning the sale of disposable vapes in 2023.
Glastonbury Festival continues to work conscientiously to reduce non-recyclable waste and promote more sustainable alternatives. Only compostable or reusable plates, cutlery and drinking straws are allowed to be used as serveware and all cutlery used by market stalls must be made from FSC-assured wood. Reusable cutlery, plates and cups are used in crew catering wherever possible.
Traders who use charcoal to cook with must ensure it comes from a sustainable source which means all charcoal packaging must show that it is a British Product or, if imported, that the charcoal is certified by the FSC (Forest Stewardship Council). In addition charcoal packaging must be fully compostable – plastic sacks/bags are not permitted.
The Festival prioritises the use of local, trusted suppliers, sourcing materials from renewable sources, reducing the use of new materials and aims to avoid waste through reuse and recycling wherever possible.
Our own onsite recycling plant is the country’s largest events-run facility and ensures we can hand-separate our own waste for single stream recycling. Our 1,200 eco-friendly compost toilets onsite produce tonnes of rich horticultural compost every year. And Glastonbury Festival’s famous long drop toilets use no compromising chemicals, so waste can be easily treated at regular sewage works.
Strong communications onsite and across the Festival’s website and social channels encourage waste-awareness and promote the message “Love the Farm, Leave No Trace”. Over the last few years we have seen a dramatic reduction in the amount of camping equipment left behind with over 98% of tents taken home from the last three events.
Water & Biodiversity
Based in rural Somerset, the Glastonbury site has set aside reserves and protected areas across the Festival to help ensure that habitats and wildlife are looked after. Since 2000, we have planted over 10,000 native trees and hedge plants to support and enhance the local environment. The Festival also monitor the health of local ecology and control the risk of damage to local ecosystems. During the Festival and after it, teams of litter pickers hand-collect litter before the land is returned to farming use.
All our water is from our mains water supply from Bristol Water, and is the same quality as tap water at home. We encourage all Festival-goers to bring a reusable water bottle and refill for free at more than 800 water points across the site. Auto shut-off fixtures on taps help to reduce water wastage.
During the Festival and in the weeks that follow, we carry out continuous monitoring of the water in the rivers and streams that run through the site to ensure that the water quality remains high for the welfare of local wildlife. Peeing on the land is forbidden and teams of Love The Farm stewards patrol the Festival site to encourage the use of over 700 meters of urinals, 2,000 longdrop toilets and 1,200 compost loos.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
Equality, diversity and inclusion have been central to the ethos of the Festival since the start. Through the Worthy Pledge – which all ticket-holders and staff agree to uphold – all those who work for or come to Glastonbury Festival are expected to ‘treat the fields and the people in them with kindness and respect’. Discrimination on the grounds of heritage, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity is not tolerated.
Our onsite Access team and facilities cater to all needs and include DeafZone services and BSL translators for D/deaf ticket-holders, accessibility PAs, viewing platforms, shortcut routes for wheelchair users, sensory zones, Worthy Rest hubs, accessible toilets and a dedicated campsite/campervan field, to support those with additional requirements.
Our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion initiatives include bias awareness training for all staff, a bespoke Area Organisers group focussed on Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, and a ring-fenced £50k fund for Equality, Diversity & Inclusion projects ranging from work with traveller communities, black and minority youth groups, female, non-binary and transgender people and those from a low socio-economic background.
These initiatives include a Black2Nature visit – helping to connect Visibly Minority Ethnic (VME) families and children with the natural world; Festival Lab work experience initiatives; Green Fields work opportunities for ethnic minority applicants and other projects which help to change festival culture, create work opportunities for collectives and individuals and build bridges between those who would not be able to, or have not had access to working at festivals previously.
Onsite, there are areas dedicated to celebrating and supporting communities such as Sistxrhood in Shangri-la and Atchin-Tan. Areas of the Festival also work with organisations such as Blkbrd Collective, a group of artists/educators with lived experience of migration; Trans Pride, representing the intersectional trans community; and Drag Syndrome, a performance artist collective with Down Syndrome, to help give diverse, marginal groups a mainstream voice.
We recognise that we are at the beginning of an ongoing journey and we continue to learn and develop year on year. We have a dedicated team that work on supporting the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion projects and providing advice on each step of the process.
Fairtrade
Over the years Glastonbury has supported and promoted sustainability across the site. We have encouraged our suppliers to obtain their own sustainable accreditation such as Fairtrade and Fairwear and take this into consideration in our procurement process. Our Wholesalers and Traders are assessed on their commitment to their own sustainability and we prioritise those who are able to demonstrate this commitment by obtaining certification such as Fairtrade, Red Tractor, RSPCA Freedom Food, MSC (Fish). Fairwear, GOTS, OCS and RJC (jewellery) and BCorp. We also prioritise local produce and products. All coffee, tea and drinking chocolate sold on site is Fairtrade and sugar must be Fairtrade or British.
Engagement
Environmental activism and support for humanitarian causes have always been intrinsic to Glastonbury Festival. From our endorsement of CND in the 1980s and support for the traveller community during that decade, we have used our influence and worked to engage the wider public in causes we believe in, helping to promote an ecologically conscious, culturally rich and inclusive world both at Glastonbury Festival and beyond our gates.
Charities, fundraising & positive impact
Every year we are pleased to be able to make payments of over £2m to charities including our partners Oxfam, WaterAid and Greenpeace, as well as other international, national and local projects and causes. By supporting and providing a global platform for our charity partners – Oxfam, Greenpeace and Water Aid – we strive to raise awareness of their campaigns for a cleaner, fairer, better world and aim to inspire long-lasting sustainable practices that promote diversity, cultural awareness and inclusivity.
In 2023, Glastonbury Festival was thrilled to have made payments of over £3.7m to a range of incredible charitable causes and campaigns. It is thanks to your support for the Festival that we have been able to make these donations to help those facing challenges both in the UK and across the world. In addition to this £3.7m, thank you to everyone who donated to the Oxfam Crowdfunder DEC Appeal which raised over £1m towards the Syria-Turkey Earthquake response, and our online auction raised £116,000 for the Trussell Trust.
We’d like to thank all our Festival-goers, crew and volunteers, without whom it wouldn’t have been possible to make these donations and support these good causes. Please click here to find out about some of the great charities and organisations we are proud to have been able to help in 2023.
To read Glastonbury Festival’s 2023 Economic Impact Summary, please click here.
With our history firmly rooted in activism and our profound connection with our rural heritage, all of us at Glastonbury Festival are passionately committed to creating a cleaner, more fair, sustainable future for all.
Here are a few things we're proud to have achieved on our journey so far. We will continue to embrace new, innovative technology to help us further reduce our impact on our environment and hope we can also inspire more sustainable changes in the world we live in.
Here's how you can help us to protect our environment and the future of the Festival.
- Please use the toilets provided. Peeing on the land or in the rivers contaminates the local water supply, killing wildlife and seriously compromises the future of the Festival.
- Please use our recycling bins. It is not okay to drop litter on the ground. Help us by placing your waste into the correct recycling bins.
- Please only use what you need. If every Festival-goer used four napkins instead of one, there would be an extra 450,000 napkins wasted unnecessarily.
- Take your tent and equipment home with you. Nothing should be considered disposable so please only bring equipment that is built to last.
- Please use public transport, cycle or car-share to Glastonbury Festival. Car emissions are still the greatest contributor to global climate change. Join the 65,000 Festival-goers that travel to the Festival by public transport and help to reduce our carbon footprint.
- Please bring a reusable water bottle. These can be filled for free at all of our taps and WaterAid kiosks across the Festival site.
- Please do not bring environmentally damaging items such as disposable vapes, wipes or body glitter – even biodegradable wipes and body glitter will not properly breakdown without being heat-treated.
- Please use water responsibly. Turn off taps and help us use water efficiently.
- Please do not bring in glass or other prohibited items such as paper lanterns. They cause fires and harm the cattle that live on the land.
Beyond the farm
Our commitment to protect our environment – to use its resources responsibly and to reduce our ecological footprint – also extends beyond the physical boundaries of the Festival. Over the last few decades, we’ve donated millions of pounds to our partners at Greenpeace, Oxfam and WaterAid, who all do invaluable work to meet the urgent needs of our planet. Those donations wouldn’t be possible without all of you who buy our tickets, and the support of the thousands of volunteers who give their time to these good causes at the Festival.
Please take a moment to read through our energy, waste and ecological policies below and learn how we are working towards a more sustainable future, and the vital role you can play in helping us to achieve that.
Love the Farm, leave no trace.
Waste policy
‘Love the Farm, leave no trace’, is central to Glastonbury Festival’s philosophy. We are passionate about reducing rubbish sent to landfill and ask Festival-goers to bring only what they need and leave nothing behind. With over 200,000 people on the land during the Festival, it’s very important to minimise the enormous impact this makeshift city has on the countryside on which it stands.
Since 2019, over 98% of all tents have been taken home after each Festival. We are very grateful to our Festival-goers for their continuing respect for the land.
Our work so far:
Waste prevention and recycling.
- Our own on-site recycling plant is the country’s largest events-run facility and ensures we can hand-separate our own waste for single stream recycling.
- From 2019, single-use plastic drinks bottles have not been available to purchase at Glastonbury Festival. Single-use plastic drinks bottles are also no longer supplied or available in any of the Festival’s backstage, production, catering and dressing room areas.
- In a determined drive to reduce non-recyclable waste and promote more sustainable alternatives, the sale of disposable vapes are also banned on-site; and all crisps are sold in compostable packaging.
- We only allow compostable or reusable plates and cutlery – including drinking straws. All cutlery used by market stalls must be made from FSC-assured wood.
- Disposable single-serving sachets, like those used for sauces or sugar, are not supplied or available anywhere on-site.
- All cans, glass, paper, wood and organic waste collected from the Festival’s 15,000 bins are hand-separated and processed at our on-site recycling facility.
- In 2019 Glastonbury Festival recycled over 68 tonnes of paper and card, 38 tonnes of glass, 57 tonnes of cans, 17 tonnes of plastic bottles and turned 14,000 litres of cooking oil into biofuel.
- All bags used to collect compostable food waste are made of compostable cornstarch and processed into compost.
- In 2019 149 tonnes of food waste were turned into compost.
- We have a 1,300-strong army of recycling volunteers who contribute hugely to the clean-up of the Festival site. Without them we wouldn’t be able to achieve our current rate of recycling.
- Since 2014, over 100,000 reusable stainless steel and 9,000 aluminium water bottles have been sold as an alternative to single-use plastic bottles. These were refillable at taps and WaterAid kiosks across site.
- All the bin bags used to collect recycling and general waste are made of recycled plastic which will again be recycled into more bin bags.
Sewage waste.
- There are over 1,200 eco-friendly compost toilets on site which yield over 500 tonnes of horticultural compost every year.
- Glastonbury Festival’s long drop toilets use no chemicals so waste can be treated easily at local sewage works.
What you can do:
Around half of all waste created by Glastonbury Festival is reused or recycled. But with help from you we can do even better.
- Please bring a reusable water bottle. These can be filled for free at our taps and WaterAid kiosks across the Festival site.
- Please only use what you need. If every Festival-goer used four napkins instead of one, there would be an extra 450,000 napkins wasted unnecessarily.
- Please use our recycling bins. It is not okay to drop litter on the ground. Help us by placing your waste into the correct recycling bins.
- Take your tent and equipment home with you. Nothing should be considered disposable so please only bring equipment that is built to last.
- Please avoid using disposable wipes. Even biodegradable wipes, which quickly breakdown into micro-plastics, are problematic environmental pollutants.
Energy policy
Global climate change continues to present the biggest threat to our planet. Here at Glastonbury Festival we are committed to reducing greenhouse emissions and using clean energy sources whenever possible. Please read on to learn more about our work to lower our carbon footprint.
Our work so far:
Incentivising green travel.
- To encourage Festival-goers to arrive by bus, our combined Festival and coach ticket packages are available to buy before standard entry tickets.
- Our sustainable travel-initiatives have helped over hundreds of thousands of ticket-holders travel to the Festival by bike or public transport. Each year, more than 40,000 ticket-holders take advantage of these for their Festival travel.
- We run regular free shuttle buses to and from Castle Cary railway station throughout the Festival.
Prioritising clean energy.
- Since 2023 all of Glastonbury Festival’s power needs have be met by renewable energy and renewable fuels.
- All generators across the Festival site – including those that power the Pyramid Stage – run on sustainable, renewable palm oil-free HVO fuel, made from waste cooking oil, helping to reduce lifecycle CO2e emissions by up to 90 percent.
- All production areas are either powered by lower impact, fossil-fuel free electricity or run on solar PV and battery hybrid systems.
- A temporary wind turbine, installed alongside a solar panel and battery system, produces up to 300kWh of energy per day and powers food stalls in Williams Green.
- Clean energy from the Festival’s own 250kWp solar PV array, as well as our anaerobic digester and 125kVA biogas plant power, provide energy for Festival offices and some production areas as well as helping to charge some battery systems.
- In order to reduce our on-site emissions, a small fleet of electric vehicles are used to transport artists around the site to their performances.
- In 2010 Worthy Farm installed 1500 square meters of solar panels on the roof of the cattle shed. At the time, the 1,316 roof-mounted solar panels made this one of the largest privately owned solar photovoltaic systems in the country.
- Since their inception in 1984, The Green Fields – including the 1000-capacity Croissant Neuf stage – have continued to be run on renewable solar, wind and pedal power.
- In late 2018, Worthy Farm installed a new anaerobic digester. The anaerobic digester transforms farm waste into renewable energy that powers Worthy Farm and Festival offices year round as well as some production areas during the Festival.
- Where possible, battery systems are deployed and charged directly by these onsite farm renewables through the mains power grid or via temporary solar power systems. All mains power onsite is supplied from fully certified renewable energy sources.
- Glastonbury Festival offices on Worthy Farm are heated by a ground source heat pump.
- 185 low energy led tower lights are used on site.
- Decarbonisation remains a driving priority for Glastonbury Festival. We are continuing to invest in our existing on site renewables – such as our solar PV array and biogas plant – and upgrade our infrastructure to increase our connectivity to the national grid, where all our electricity is supplied by a combination of Worthy Farm’s own on site solar and biogas plant supplemented by a 100 percent traceable, renewable energy tariff.
Improving infrastructure to cut down on transport emissions.
- There is an on-site Wholesale Market to reduce food miles and cut down on delivery vehicles.
- With 2 million litres of water stored in its reservoirs and 7km of on-site private water mains, Glastonbury Festival’s water needs can be met through its own mains water supply and no water needs to be transported to the Festival by tanker.
What you can do:
With your help we can do even more to bring down our greenhouse gas emissions. With over 200,000 people at the Festival, these are small steps that bring us closer to a greener, cleaner world.
- Please use public transport, cycle or car-share to Glastonbury Festival. Car exhaust is the greatest contributor to the Festival’s greenhouse gases. By car-sharing, or better still, using public transport or cycling to the Festival, we can hugely reduce the amount of pollution produced.
- Save energy at home. While you’re at Glastonbury Festival, unplug your telly and other non-essential appliances and switch off unnecessary lights. Please also consider using LED light bulbs and switching to an energy supplier that commits to clean, renewable energy sources.
Ecological Policy
At Glastonbury Festival we are passionate about improving the world we live in. We want to make the Festival as sustainable as we can and aim to be frugal with resources, minimise our impact on our environment and commit towards improving the wellbeing and welfare of all who work at and come to enjoy the Festival.
Our work so far:
Care of our environment.
- Drinking water in our reservoirs is heavily monitored and quality-tested twice a day during the Festival and in its preceding weeks.
- During the Festival and in the weeks that follow, Glastonbury Festival carries out continuous monitoring of the water in the rivers and watercourses that run through the site to ensure that the water quality remains high for the welfare of local wildlife.
- The Festival monitor the health of local ecology year-round, and control the risk of damage to local ecosystems.
- Teams of litter pickers work throughout the Festival and afterwards, hand-collecting litter.
- Since 2000, Glastonbury Festival has planted over 10,000 native trees and hedge plants to support and enhance the local environment.
- Glastonbury works hard to protect vulnerable habitats, ponds, streams, hedges and ditches, by creating nature reserves and non-public zones.
Promotion of sustainable practices.
- The Festival only uses Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) or appropriately certified building timber. At the end of its use, unusable wood is chipped and used around the farm.
- All coffee, tea and drinking chocolate sold on site must be Fair Trade, and sugar must be either Fair Trade or British.
- Fish must be Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certified.
- Charcoal and wood must be British or Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified.
- All milk sold through traders at Glastonbury Festival must be purchased from the on-site wholesale milk supplier to reduce transport miles.
- All food service disposables/serve ware – including straws and hot drink lids – must be made from paper, card, wood or leaves and be fully compostable.
- Traders are not permitted to bring or use single-use sachets of sugar, sauces, salt, pepper or milk pods.
- All official Glastonbury Festival bags are 100% organic, unbleached natural cotton, printed with Azo Free water based inks.
- Our official Glastonbury Festival T-shirts are 100% organic cotton, certified by GOTS.
- The dyes used in the manufacture of the T-shirts are all reactive dyes, which are the kindest to the environment for use in commercial garment manufacturing.
What you can do:
- Please use the toilets provided. Urinating on the land or in the rivers contaminates the local water supply, killing wildlife and seriously compromises the future of the festival.
- Please use our waste and recycling bins. It is not okay to drop litter on the ground. Help us look after our environment by placing your waste into the correct recycling bins.
- Please dispose of cigarette butts responsibly. If they are thrown on the land, they leach chemicals into the soil and local water supplies.
- For campfires, please only burn the wood provided. Do not take wood from the trees and hedges. Not only will green wood not burn well, but taking it disrupts habitats.
- Please use water responsibly. Turn off taps and help us use water efficiently.
- Please only use biodegradable body glitter. Conventional glitter is a microplastic pollutant.
Peeing on the ground causes toxic pollution of the water table. The ground water runs into the central Whitelake River and down the valley for miles around. Wildlife and fish are affected if 200,000 people pee everywhere.
The Environment Agency tests the water regularly, and has the power to close down the site if too many people have urinated and polluted the site. It really could be the end of Glastonbury if you pee where you shouldn’t. Please only pee in our thousands of toilets and urinals.
Compost Loos
We have over 1,200 compost toilets across the site, which after a year turns into wonderful compost which is brought back onto the farm and used in the Permaculture area and Peace garden. A compost toilet is a water free system that is best for the environment.
There are thousands of toilets on site, and we urge you to use them. Environmental health students check the toilets twice a day and cleaners and other staff are on hand, 24/7, to help keep them functional.
In a concerted effort to make Glastonbury Festival more sustainable and to help Festival-goers consider their use of single use plastics, plastic drinks bottles will not be available at Glastonbury Festival 2023. Instead we recommend Festival-goers use a reusable water bottle. Water bottles can be refilled for free at every water tap and at the many WaterAid kiosks throughout the Festival site.
We have a mains water supply from Bristol Water that is the same quality as your domestic supply at home. Refilling a reusable water bottle makes a huge difference to the volume of plastic bottle waste.
As part of our our Love Worthy Farm, Leave No Trace campaign we are trying to raise awareness of the terrible state that Worthy Farm is left in when everyone goes home after the Festival. Abandoned camping equipment and rubbish blight the beautiful green pastures of the farm. It really is very sad.
Please do your bit when you leave, take all your camping gear home and put all your rubbish in the bin bags provided by your campsite stewards. Even just five minutes of effort from each person at the Festival would make a HUGE difference.
TAKE YOUR TENTS AND ALL YOUR CAMPING EQUIPMENT HOME
Thousands of tents and abandoned camping equipment like airbeds, roll mats, chairs, blankets and gazebos are left after each festival. Think responsibly when you are packing your bags to come to Glastonbury, don’t bring items that you won’t be able to take back home again.
REMOVE TENT PEGS
Please remove all your tent pegs from the ground. It is really important not to leave any behind because they get imbedded in the ground and when the fields get rotavated, the metal pegs get chopped-up into small pieces, and if the cows eat them they could die.
LIMIT WHAT YOU BRING, AND CLEAN UP BEHIND YOU
Remember that you have the energy to do multiple trips back to your car on the Wednesday when you are feeling fresh but come the Monday morning after 5 days of partying and having fun energy levels are very low.
PUT ALL RUBBISH INTO BINS AND BIN-BAGS
There are now 15,000 very well signposted and beautifully painted bins (colour-coded for recycled and other rubbish) virtually everywhere on site for your rubbish. As you enter the site, stewards will hand you a green bag for recyclables and a clear bag for general waste – please help us look after the land by correctly filling them up as you go!
The application process for the 2025 Festival was open between 1st October 2024 5pm on 1stNovember 2024, however has now closed to allow the selection process to take place. We will be taking our next fallow year in 2026, therefore applications for trading at the 2027 Festival are likely to be available in October 2026.
Thousands of food traders, charities, campaigning organisations and sellers of the bizarre and unique apply to trade at Glastonbury Festival each year. Pitches are not allocated on a first come first served basis. We assess each application on its own merit so we ask for as much information as possible including photographs of your stall and products. There will be more than 200,000 people on site at the busiest, with the public arriving from Wednesday morning onwards and most staying until Monday morning.
TRADERS FAQS
* Please read thoroughly even if you have traded at the Festival before *
What does Glastonbury Festival look for from applicants?
The presentation and appearance of your stall is important as is the goods you are proposing to sell. The online application process requires you to upload photos of your stall and products. If you do not have photos of your stall, we would need to see a sketch or artists impression of how your stall would look if it were at Glastonbury Festival 2025. Applications with no photos/sketches are incomplete and will not go through to the selection process. We look for creative and aesthetically pleasing stalls which fit in with the ethics of the Festival and are keen for the Festival Markets to be full of good quality food/products, at a fair price.
Due to the size of Glastonbury, festival trading experience is essential. Feedback from other traders tells us this is invaluable especially when planning stock levels and staffing.
When completing your application, please ensure stall and pitch sizes are accurate. We need to know precisely what space you require – do not guess. We use the information you give us to plan our market areas and are unable to make changes once space has been allocated. We request four measurements from you – stall width and depth and pitch width and depth. Stall sizes must include your trading structure and any additional kitchen/preparation area you may have. The pitch sizes need to include your stall as well as an exact width for guy ropes/tow hooks and in terms of depth, space for any essential onsite vehicles, trailers, caravans, campervans and space for your staff to camp. Please remember space is at a premium and onsite vehicles and caravans will be limited. Entry to your stall will be via a gate leading into the back of the market area rather than through the front of your stall therefore please ensure the pitch size you give is exact. We will be asking successful applicants to draw their pitch layout which must include the stall itself, all allocated onsite vehicles and the area required for camping.
Is there anything I am not allowed to sell?
In your application we would ask that you give details of everything you wish to sell onsite. Successful applicants will be advised in their Offer to Trade of any products listed on their application which cannot be sold. We are very careful to minimise product clashes across site and selling products without prior authorisation from the Main Markets Office will be considered a breach of the Terms and Conditions. Contraband items are detailed in our Terms and Conditions which form part of the application process.
The Festival supports Fairtrade and this international movement which works across over 70 countries and is committed to improving living standards, investing in communities and businesses as well as protecting the environment. Fairtrade is a recognised Trademark and stands for fair prices for farmers and workers who struggle with low incomes and disadvantaged global trade. The Festival expects all coffee, black tea, chocolate (including hot chocolate drinks) and non-UK sugar sold on site will carry the Fairtrade Trademark.
Single use plastic bottles have not been sold on site since 2019, all drinks sold must be in cans or paper cups only.
All serveware (plates, cups, straws etc) must be home-compostable and must be made from paper, wood, cardboard or leaves. Items which ‘look’ plastic, say they are biodegradable or recyclable, made of cornstarch or PLA (polylactic acid) are unacceptable. The rules around composting are very strict and using non-compliant disposables would impact on future applications. The Festival has approved wholesalers who are able to supply traders with suitable serveware.
Traders who use charcoal to cook with must ensure it comes from a sustainable source which means all charcoal packaging must show that it is a British Product or, if imported, that the charcoal is certified by the FSC (Forest Stewardship Council). In addition charcoal packaging must be fully compostable – plastic sacks/bags are not permitted. Traders will be inspected on site and charcoal packaging will be checked. Any traders found not be adhering to these rules run the risk of not being offered a pitch in the future.
The Festival has appointed a number of Approved Wholesalers who have been given authority to deliver to Bars, Traders and Crew Caterers. Details are available to all applicants on the Information Pages accessed via your dashboard. We expect all Traders, Bars and Crew Caterers to order from our Approved Wholesalers and recommend ordering early to secure your product lines. Delivery requests can be made for items such as marquees but please note that deliveries by, for example, other Food Services Companies will not be permitted. More details will be advised to successful applicants but please bear this in mind if you are looking to secure your product ranges with potential supplies before you know the outcome of your application.
There are concessions in place for a number of products including soft drinks. Successful applicants will be advised of the brands they are allowed to sell, these brands will be available from our approved wholesalers.
Traders are not permitted to sell alcohol including for example brandy coffee or Grand Marnier crepes.
How much does a pitch cost?
Each pitch is priced individually therefore it is difficult to provide a reliable estimation of the price of a pitch until we have completed our selection process. Prices are based on a number of factors including (but not exclusively) the location, the trading space, the prices and types of products being sold and the number of staff passes allocated.
We only have a limited amount of space and tickets available for market traders therefore if you are successful, you may be allocated a different amount of space, tickets or vehicle passes than requested in your application.
In addition to the pitch fee, you will need to pay for your standpipe/direct connection (food traders), any other water connections and power, all of which will be payable in the first week of April. All prices are subject to VAT.
What should I bear in mind before applying?
Use of the Glastonbury Festival logo, name (including just the name Glastonbury/Glasto) and/or images (for example the Pyramid, Ribbon Tower etc) on any goods or promotional material is strictly prohibited. This applies to social media, websites and press coverage.
Sub-contracting, sub-letting or the sharing of a stall or any part of a stall is strictly forbidden. If there are changes to the business ownership between application and offer – applicants must make the Festival aware immediately. Any Trader selling their stall whilst under contract to the Festival will have the Offer withdrawn
Food Traders/Bars/Crew Caterers: We expect the person making the application and managing the operation onsite to be the Food Business Operator.
The Festival welcomes and encourages applications from non-food traders who wish to sell clothing from sustainable and ethical brands. When reviewing applications from Traders selling clothing, we look for good quality second hand/pre-loved items and where possible, certification to demonstrate where new clothing is sourced from. When you apply, be sure to let us know as much about your products as you can. As part of the Festivals commitment to Fairtrade, we will be looking for new cotton clothing to carry the Fairtrade Mark.
No Generators are allowed on-site.
Traders successful in their application must only sell approved goods at prices specified in their application and agreed with the Main Markets Office in their Offer to Trade. The Festival reserves the right to restrict your product list. Traders found to be selling products on site which are not on their application form risk not being invited to trade in future.
Traders wishing to sell goods or services to festival goers in advance of the Festival (ie. Pre-orders) must have prior permission from the Main Markets Office
Glastonbury festival is committed to being an inclusive event, and we expect all our traders, caterers and bar providers to consider how they can become more accessible to the many Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent Festival goers, crew and performers on site. Click here to download a PDF of Access Guidelines for Traders.
What if I don’t need a pitch, can I just walk about and sell my goods?
No. All approved traders must have a static pitch from which to trade. Mobile/roaming traders and fly-pitchers are strictly prohibited. Anyone found to be selling products without the authorisation of the Main Markets Office will have their items confiscated and may be evicted from site.
How do I apply for a stall on behalf of a charity/campaigning organisation?
The Festival hosts many charities and campaigning organisations on site, raising awareness of their cause.
Fundraising for your organisation on site is prohibited without prior permission from the Markets Office.
This includes:
- Collection boxes for cash donations
- Card donation machines
- Taking bank details to sign people up to memberships
Donations or payments that are permitted:
- Suggested donations in exchange for workshops or activities
- Payment or minimum donations in exchange for products and merchandise
The collection of personal data on site by charitable or campaigning organisations is also prohibited without prior permission. Please consider this when planning your activities.
The Green Futures Field is home to a number of campaign and charity stalls. Please note that there is no electricity in this field and generators are not allowed on site. If you need power to run your stall please consider other options, for example solar. Vehicles are not permitted to park in this field unless they are an integral part of the stall (for example you trade from a bus or a fire engine). If your application is successful, you will be allocated a short stay vehicle pass to allow you to drop equipment and stock to your stall. Your vehicle will then need to be parked in the Festival car park. Stalls in this area have a reduced pitch fee.
To apply, please complete the relevant application form, giving as much information about what you do and what you would bring to the Festival. Please include photos and sketches to help with our assessment. We ask all applicants to think about the Festival environment as much as possible and how their stall would fit with this – we encourage the use of sustainable, recycled and reusable materials as well as using engaging ways to interact with Festival goers rather than bringing a table full of pamphlets/leaflets or other single use materials to site.
If you are a charity, campaigning organisation, CIO, CIC or other non-profit company, you will be required to provide your registration number on your application form.
Are there minimum trading days/hours?
All successful traders will be advised in their Offer to Trade of the earliest time they may arrive on site. Dates for 2025 will be either Sunday 22nd or Monday 23rd June. Once set up traders can begin trading as soon as they have been given the go ahead by their Market Manager. Traders are expected to be open for a minimum 12 hours each day between Wednesday 25th and Sunday 29th June, it is up to each trader whether they wish to open longer. Some traders will choose to open on Monday 30th June. Traders cannot leave site before 6pm on Monday 30th June 2025.
What documentation do I need?
Whether you come to site as a food trader, crew caterer, bar, non-food trader, charity or campaigner, you are operating as a legitimate business and as such have to comply with current legislation. Regardless of whether or not you are selling a product or service to the public, you will need documentation in place, some of which will be requested in advance of the Festival. To include, but not exclusively:-
- Public and Employers Liability Insurance Certificates
Food traders are required to carry a minimum £5m cover
Non-food traders are required to carry a minimum £1m cover - Health & Safety Documentation (Policies, Risk Assessments including Food Safety Management Systems (as appropriate) and Fire Risk Assessment, Training Records etc.)
- PAT Test Certification
- Gas Safety Certificates (where applicable – carried out by a Gas Safe registered engineer qualified to work on the equipment you are bringing to site)
- Written Scheme of Examination for all pressurized Systems (including coffee machines)
- Food Safety Management System (SFBB, NCASS, COOKSAFE or similar)
- Food Hygiene Training Certificate (food handlers only)
- Written allergen information on all unpackaged food together with fully completed Allergen Matrix documentation.
- Labelling for any Pre-Packed Food For Direct Sales.
Food traders, crew caterers and bars MUST be registered with a Local Authority.
All food traders, bars and crew caterers will be visited onsite by Food Safety Officers. Before you begin to trade you MUST clearly display a BLUE EHO CARD which will have been sent to you with your Welcome Pack. Once trading, our Food Safety Officers will visit every trader and award either a Red, Amber or Green Card based on their compliance with food safety legislation. Traders awarded a Green Card, are considered safe to continue trading. Traders receiving Amber cards will have some areas requiring attention and improvement but will be allowed to continue to trade. Any trader considered unsafe will receive a Red Card and will not be allowed to trade until a further inspection has taken place.
One of my staff has a public ticket, is this ok?
Entry for public ticket holders is from Wednesday 25th June only. Please note that camping space behind your stall is based on the crew tickets numbers allocated to you and that access to your stall and the camping area is via a Market Gate and therefore limited to those with Markets Wristbands only. Space for Public Ticket Holders is provided in the public camping areas. Any other arrangement is at the discretion of the Festival and you will need to request permission via email markets@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk before 31 May 2025. Please be aware that due to limited space it is unlikely requests will be accommodated.
When will I find out if I have been successful in my application?
The result of your application will be on your dashboard on/by 1st March 2025.
If I am successful, what happens next?
Successful applicants will receive an Offer to Trade giving them lots of information including full details of the pitch location and size we are offering, how many tickets and vehicle passes have been allocated and the price. If you wish to accept our offer, you will need to agree to the Traders Terms and Conditions and order power and direct water connections (if required).
I am a food trader, how do I get more stock during the Festival?
We work hard to minimise vehicle movement therefore rather than having masses of delivery vehicles driving around the site, we have a variety of approved wholesalers who are able to supply a wide range of products including chilled and frozen foods, disposables, gas, fruit and vegetables, meat, milk, bread, charcoal, refrigeration and ethical produce. These wholesalers deliver to stalls both before and during the Festival, in addition there is an onsite wholesale market which traders can visit on foot to collect supplies. Further information will be available as part of the application process. Please note we have a strict policy regarding on-site deliveries and we strongly recommend you check the details of our on-site wholesalers before you enter any agreements with a foodservice wholesaler as they may not be allowed on site.
Data Protection
Your application data will only be used within the Festival office for the purpose of assessing suitability for trading at Glastonbury Festival and will be held by us for a maximum of 7 years. Contact details of successful food traders, crew caterers and bars will be passed onto our approved wholesalers to allow the sharing of price lists and other relevant information. Your details will not be shared or sold to any other third parties. If you wish for us to delete your data after the 2025 Festival, please email markets@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk. The Glastonbury Festival Privacy Policy can be found here.
I have a bar, how can I apply?
Most bars onsite return year on year therefore it is very unlikely there will be any opportunities for 2025. If you wish for us to keep your details on file, please email information to markets@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk
I am a healer, how do I apply?
Please use the contact form on the website under the heading ‘other enquiries’
How do I apply to trade?
Application forms will be available between 1st October and 1st November 2024. In order to access the forms, traders must be registered on our application system. Applicants who have registered/applied since October 2018 can use the same log in details as before.
Other applicants must please first register using the link available during the application live process. After inputting an email address and choosing a password, you will then be emailed a link to confirm your registration. When you log in to the application system, you will see on your ‘dashboard’ tabs to access the application forms. Please note, you can only register whilst the application process is open.
If you are applying to sell consumables (food and/or non-alcoholic drinks) to the Festival goers, please complete a Food Traders application. If you are a crew caterer, please complete the Crew Caterer application form. If you are applying for more than one stall please complete one application form per stall. Applicants wishing to apply for multiple options, for example, one crew food and one public serving stall, will need to complete the different forms.
Your application will be automatically saved as you progress through the pages. If you need to go back a page, please click the relevant sub-heading at the top (underneath Create Application). Clicking on the ‘home’ button will ensure details are saved up to the last completed page. You can return to the part completed application form at any time before 5pm on 1st November which is the closing date for applications; please ensure you submit by this time and date.
By logging onto your ‘dashboard’, you will be able to find out the status of your application and on/by 1st March the system will be updated to let you know if your application was successful. At this point (if successful) your offer document will be visible on the dashboard and further documentation such as an invoice will be added at a later date.
Please keep your login details safe as you will need them if you wish to apply in the future.
As well as Glastonbury Festival, Somerset is the home of the historical King Arthur, the foundations of early Christianity, the smallest medieval city in Britain, stunning natural scenery, two of Britain’s greatest cave sites at Cheddar Gorge and Wookey Hole, an ice age gorge and tor, Glastonbury Abbey and The Roman Baths. Oh, and it’s also where the roots of cider production began.
For more information on Somerset, do head over to Somerset’s Official Tourism Website which can help you pick out your own favourite bits of Somerset and truly make the most of your visit.
Worthy Farm Reserve Cheddar was awarded a bronze in their respective ‘Best Mature Cheddar’ classes by both The International Cheese Awards & The Global Cheese Awards. As two of the most renowned shows in the cheese industry it was up against some extremely strong competition and the Worthy Farm team feel very proud to have been recognised.
The cheddar is crafted by third generation family cheesemakers at Wyke Farms, just a few miles from Pilton. Its creamy, smooth and moreish flavour with a hint of sweetness that has earned it praise from some of the most knowledgeable cheese judges in the world. You can judge for yourself by picking up a pack exclusively from Co-op stores.
ABOUT WORTHY FM
Worthy FM is the onsite radio station of the Festival and has been running in it’s current set-up for over 15 years. They broadcast on 87.7 FM and online during the festival, for one week only.
The station caters for Festival goers and listeners at home who want to experience the fun from afar. Worthy FM is all about reflecting the atmosphere and activities across the entire festival site, promoting the festival’s good causes, and providing an extra source of official information festival goers need to know. They also cover all the rounds of the Festival’s Emerging Talent Contest (ETC) and produce a daily show featuring the performers and the contest.
The station is run by a regular volunteer crew. Each year, they reserve a number of crew places for new volunteers who are chosen through a national competition.
“We just wanted to take a moment to express our thanks to each and every one of you that featured on or tuned in to Worthy FM during yet another incredible Festival. 2024 was definitely a vintage year. We hope you had the time of your lives.
No matter how you listened to Worthy FM this year, you added to the magic of the Festival experience. From all of 2024’s crew, thank you. We can’t wait to do it all again with you next year.”