Vote in the UK Festivals Awards 2005! We've teamed up with our partners Virtual Festivals (along with BBC 6 Music and Carling Live) for the UK Festivals Awards 2005. You get the chance to vote for your fave festi, fave performances and even your favourite festival moment. Voting commences on Monday 17 October for three weeks - have a look at the categories and the nominees. Though we wouldn't wish to prejudice you in any way (of course!), the best moment HAS to be that Make Poverty History moment at Glasto, when 10,000s joined hands across the site. Get voting! More on the Virtual Festivals Awards site >> posted at 1:41 PM   0 comments

More superstar DJs! Radio 1 legends Sara Cox and Annie Nightingale show their support at Bestival. Cheers girls! posted at 2:21 PM   0 comments

Goodbye summer... Well we're back from Bestival, and we're a little bleary eyed - a great way to end our summer of campaigning. Read our review of the summer and have a look at all the great celebs who supported the campaign. posted at 1:58 PM   0 comments

The Oxfam tent by night Our beautiful Oxfam tent by night... It really has been a great festival. Yesterday's big highlight was the massive fancy dress party - the whole festival came out for the evening decked out as cowboys and indians. There were some truly outrageous chiefs and cowboys and cowgirls of every kind imaginable. It all added to the unique atmosphere here. Royksopp on the main stage were a real laugh too - our Oxfam campaigners taught the festival a thing or two with their spectacular dance moves. posted at 4:33 PM   0 comments

Superstar DJ Our beloved festival DJ Cynan - who has been with us at pretty much all of this year's events - spins some more tunes, all in the name of Make Trade Fair, of course. Big thanks must go to Cynan's masterful musical efforts this summer - a true Oxfam hero. posted at 4:21 PM   0 comments

Weaving their Magic Just a pic of the crowd and the stage during the Magic Numbers' brilliant performance on Friday night. The main stage is really intimate here, but there's still plenty of room for everyone to have a proper boogie. posted at 4:12 PM   0 comments

One happy campaigning family Our campaigners prepare for their shift yesterday. We've been working five hour shifts each day, starting around midday and working our way through the campsites and the festival itself. Everyone has been really interested in what we're doing here, and people seem to know about the issues and are keen to show their support. It's great to know that people are behind campaigns like Make Trade Fair, and want to see the world work better to help developing countries out of poverty. posted at 4:05 PM   0 comments

Sign of the times "Sign the petition" is the message, and Bestival-goers have been signing in their 1,000s. There's a distinctly lazy Sunday feeling on site today, though there's still a great atmosphere. And our campaigners have battled on - it feels like there can't be person left at Bestival who hasn't shown their support for Make Trade Fair. Nice one. posted at 3:57 PM   0 comments

Happy campaigners Yesterday's star campaigners Ben and Matt at the end of their shift last night, having collected 100s of signatures for the Big Noise Petition. Big respect to Matt - he came in to our tent Friday morning and just offered to help us out. What a legend. posted at 2:06 PM   0 comments

Bestival by night A lovely pic of our very own festival coordinator, Chris Rose, overlooking Bestival last night. Beautiful, baby. posted at 1:46 PM   1 comments

When Saturday comes... The drizzle is descending on Bestival, but it will never be enough to dampen our end-of-summer spirits. We've had an awesome time of it so far, and EVERYONE we speak to is supportive of Make Trade Fair. Yesterday the Isle of Wight was basked in glorious early September sunshine, and our campaigners darted from tent to tent, gathering signatures for the Big Noise Petition. posted at 1:25 PM   0 comments

Ready, steady... Well, the sun is shining here (not sure if it will all weekend, but still) and we're just preparing the tent, and taking the whole brilliant festival in. There's a unique vibe here at Bestival - it all feels very homegrown and organic, and everybody seems to be smiling and hoping for a brilliant weekend. There are loads of great foodstalls - thai, veggie, indian, organic burgers, handcut chips - definitely not your usual burger'n'chips fare. And there are all kinds of massage areas, magical cinema tents, experimental sound centres, tipi fields and even a campervan field filled with vans to keep our very own campaigning camper company. We'll be telling the whole festival about Make Trade Fair, so stay tuned for more pics and updates... posted at 1:36 PM   0 comments

Zooming to Bestival It's a whirlwind round GWhy HQ as we gather our wellies, sunhats and very best Cowboys and Indians costumes for the end-of-the-summer spectacular that is Bestival. We're heading down to Southampton tomorrow at daybreak, and catching the party ferry to the Isle of Wight. Like always, we'll be shouting insanely about the virtues of Make Trade Fair, and we'll have our blissed out chill out tent, complete with campaigning campervan and the BEST campaigners this side of the Solent. We can't wait to see off our brilliant summer of campaigning in style - hope to see you down there! posted at 4:55 PM   0 comments

Success all round The punters loved what Oxfam was doing. We got an incredible 18,000 sign-ups for Make Trade Fair and the campaigners enjoyed their work. posted at 5:09 PM   0 comments

Kasabian posted at 5:05 PM   3 comments

The Killers Our celeb specialist Becks was there to help again at Leeds. This time her partner in crime was Sarah. Among many of the artists they were able to talk were the Killers and Kasabian. Both groups were really supportive of the campaign. posted at 4:56 PM   4 comments

The good old Oxfam camper van Just in case you were wondering where it was... posted at 4:49 PM   0 comments

Sign up here! People were not just partying the night away. Oh no, they were signing up to the Big Noise petition ALL night. posted at 4:40 PM   0 comments

Packed to the rafters posted at 4:29 PM   2 comments

Party in the Oxfam tent DJ Nat was pumping out some great tunes. With the music blasting the Oxfam tent was a magnet to the Leeds festival folk. posted at 4:00 PM   0 comments

A couple of excited campaigners Becks and Emily were certainly looking the part. Oxfamed to the max and Make Poverty History pants making the point. The festivals are an amazing chance to tell loads of peple about campaigns that they may have heard of but often don't know that much about. Well done campaigners! posted at 3:45 PM

Here we go again... Fresh from V festival Chris was ready to advise a new bunch of volunteers about campaigning. We took 40 campaigners to Leeds, the biggest group yet for one of the summer festivals. Great things were expected of them. If you fancy having a go at campaigning sign up to e-Xtra and you will find out about the latest opportunities. posted at 3:30 PM   0 comments

18,000 sign ups - just from Leeds! A massive, MASSIVE well done to the team of 40 campaigners at Leeds. They got a staggering 18,000 people to pledge their support for Make Trade Fair. Lets start at the very beginning though and go back to day 1 at Leeds... posted at 3:18 PM   3 comments

Update from Leeds! We're having problems adding pics to our blog at the moment, but I just wanted to say that Leeds is now in full swing. Our campaigners have told us that 1,000s of happy festival-goers arrived last night, and were crammed into our Oxfam tent in their 100s when the only other music stage open at the time had to close down! Hectic times, but our heroic team held their own. Our campaigners have just started their shift, and they'll be raising awareness about Make Trade Fair. One other update: Nick from our shops team on site in Leeds has done the first bank run from yesterday and reported a record for one day's trading at a festival - £12,000! Nice one! posted at 4:10 PM   0 comments

The Big Noise gets louder... The 15,000 signatures we collected at V will help to take the Big Noise Petition ever closer to its target of 10 million, before the WTO meets in Hong Kong in December. Click on the image above for our Big Noise barometer - which shows just how many signatures have been collected across the world so far. Awesome stuff. posted at 5:26 PM   0 comments

Over 15,000 signatures for the Big Noise Petition! We've got the big final count from both V Stafford and V Chelmsford - a whopping 15,000 BRILLIANT people showed their support for Make Trade Fair by signing the Big Noise Petition. It's brilliant that we were able to get so many supporters - a big thank you goes out to all the volunteers who made the weekend happen (and of course to all of you who signed the petition). If you haven't already, sign the petition here. posted at 5:06 PM   0 comments

The Polyphonic Spree Keen to spread the word about the campaign! posted at 12:05 PM   3 comments

Howie, lead singer of the Stands Howie agrees that trade rules need to be changed. He said that, "Everyone should be given the chance to work their own way out of poverty. It is just inhuman that trading systems stop them from being able to. Governments and companies should listen - Make Trade Fair" posted at 11:59 AM   0 comments

Becks and Rose and more celebs Becks and Rose worked hard to get even more of the artists to show their support for Make Trade Fair. Check out Abi from the Zutons. She knew all about the Make Trade Fair campaign and was pleased as punch to pose for a photo. posted at 11:49 AM   0 comments

Shopping Our ethical shop has been busybusybusy this weekend. We have been selling ethically sourced t-shirts and loads of make poverty history stuff. posted at 11:40 AM   0 comments

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