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Summer festivals review 2007
oxfam's summer festivals review 2007
We look back on what was an incredible summer. We were on the road for three months at eight different festivals, enjoying great music and enduring the mud.
our summer in numbers

signing upOVER 110,000
signatures on our climate change petition. Thanks to everyone who signed, asking Gordon Brown’s government to commit to a new climate deal at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali this December.


shopping£110,000
raised by the Oxfam trading stalls. Best sellers were dinner jackets and wedding dresses. And at Leeds Festival they completely ran out of blankets.



stewarding£460,000

raised by the 5,000 strong army of Oxfam stewards. Huge respect to all the amazing people who volunteered their time, enduring night-long shifts in damp fields, to raise money for Oxfam.

you loved
rock or rave rock or rave
The question of the summer!
Tattoos
oxfam badges sticker
Badges
Stickers
rain_or_shine
An ode to our summer festivals tour, by Sarah Dransfield
competitions
Carling Leeds photo competition results
Carling Leeds photo competition results
Loads of ace pics sent in by you and a very tasty winner.
Carling Reading photo competition results.
Carling Reading photo competition results.
Thanks for the great pics. Here are the best.
Glastonbury photo competition winners
Glastonbury photo competition winners
Loads of ace pics sent in by you, the (literally) great unwashed.
features
Festivals campaigning and stewarding 2008
Festivals campaigning and stewarding 2008
To volunteer as a campaigner or steward visit the new festivals area on the main Oxfam site.
Oxfam's summer festivals tour review 2007
We look back on an incredible summer.
Leeds 2007 in photos
Loads of ace pics from hot and sunny Leeds.
Glastonbury 2007 in photos
We were there, talking climate change, selling wedding dresses and stewarding our socks off.
get involved at festivals
Campaigning
Oxfam volunteers go to festivals to raise awareness about all the stuff we do and ways for festival-goers to get involved.
Stewarding
Our stewards are volunteers who make sure the festival runs smoothly. We get paid for their shifts, raising around £400,000 each year.
featured
Festival stewarding on oxfam.org.uk >>
2006 Festivals review >>
2005 Festivals review >>
your say
Related articles and opinions from our Write for Generation Why team.
Pete Lusby My summer of music – the story of an Oxfam festivals volunteer
Pete Lusby
11 September 2007
Dee Nunn Spreading the green message at Leeds Festival
Dee Nunn
03 September 2007
 Victoria Watts Glastonbury: Muddy. Happy. Massive. Toilet. Commercial. Ethical.
Victoria Watts
30 July 2007
your say
What do you think about what you've just read? Have your say.

magic moments
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Chris Rose, festivals project manager

Best musical moment:
The Killers at Glastonbury were amazing (luckily I was in front of one of the speakers that worked).


Funniest random moment:
Wearing a tutu and face-paint on the last night at Leeds - my dancing that night left something to be desired.

Lowest point: Getting our transit van stuck in the mud at Glastonbury, Womad, V Festival... and breaking down in the campervan on the M25 - not a fun experience.

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Pete Lusby, festivals project assistant

Best musical moment: Editors set, 3 from the front at Glastonbury, and cracking up when I nearly lost my wellies in the sticky mud when I tried to jump to 'Racing Rats'.

Funniest random moment: Enjoying a pear cider (on the grass!!!) at the top of the stone circle at Glastonbury - so nice to finally sit down on a dryish spot.

Lowest point: Getting out of my freezing cold bed at Womad to put all of my clothes on and my woolly hat, and find some earplugs to drown out the guy next door selling "Hot, and Spicy Ciideerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!" at 4am.

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Sarah Dransfield, festivals blogger

Best musical moment: Mick Jagger gyrating past on a conveyor belt stage at Isle Of Wight – legend. I lost my voice singing along to I Can’t Get No Satisfaction.

Funniest random moment: Falling asleep standing up at Glastonbury, I was so tired from mud trudging and having nowhere to sit down (I was also wearing a wedding dress at the time!). Also when my dad asked me if the Foo Monkeys were playing at Leeds!

Lowest point: The sea of filth at V Chelmsford… next year more recycling bins please!

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Rich Morton, festivals volunteer

Best musical moment: Kings of Leon at Leeds Festival & The Killers at V Stafford.

Funniest random moment: Raving with all the festival-goers in the Oxfam dance tent at Leeds Festival.

Lowest point: The drumming solos at Womad that kept me awake all night.

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Guppi Bola, volunteer campaigner at Glastonbury

Best musical moment: forming a dancing circle during Wake Up by Arcade Fire.

Funniest random moment: joining my mates at the tipi fields after my campaigning shift where I waded in just in time to play rounders with a group of hippies. The game was umpired by anyone who had control of the toy megaphone.

Lowest point: Welly rash (my fault for forgetting to bring more than one pair of socks) I still have the scars two months after it!
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Watch 'Live your life, change your world' - our cute campaigning video as seen at all this year's festivals.
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