The Summer Sundae Festival
 At this year's Summer Sundae festival in Leicester, Oxfam joined forces with two locally based organisations - Skillshare International and Leicestershire AIDS Support Service (LASS) - to spread awareness of the importance of access to essential services.
More than 16,000 music fans were entertained by acts such as Elbow, Gomez, Belle & Sebastian, The Proclaimers and José Gonzalez with his trademark solo classical guitar.
Summer Sundae certainly reaffirmed itself as the 'grandson of Glastonbury' playing host to the likes of politically-edged dub maestros Michael Franti and Spearhead and the Coldcut collective whose gritty beats and innovative visuals cooked up a storm on the indoor stage.
Our campaigners were there with red ribbons and petitions, telling people about our Health and Education For All campaign. In the world’s poorest countries there is only one doctor for every 50,000 people, and only 400,000 people worldwide have access to HIV/AIDS treatment - less than 8% of those who need it. What’s more, millions of teachers in poor countries handle classes of up to 100 pupils in schools with few books and no running water.
Jonny Gutteridge of Skillshare said: "People were really positive about the issues that we were campaigning about and the most amazing thing was that almost everybody was wearing a red ribbon by the end of the weekend. There were about sixteen of us campaigning and we all kept smiling and had a good time, despite occasional wind and rain. Oh, and the music was good too!"
Bring on Summer Sundae 2007!
By Becky Clements - campaigner
posted at 11:37 AM
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