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Glastonbury festival raised £5.9m for charity in 2024
Donations support NHS, refugees and conflict zones
The music festival also continued to support its partners Oxfam, WaterAid and Greenpeace, and made additional donations to War Child, UNHCR and other charities to fund work in what a statement from the organisers called “some of the world’s most challenging places”. Glastonbury ran an emergency crowdfunder to bring humanitarian aid to people in conflict and promised to match donations: public giving raised £639,000, meaning the festival gave more than £1.27m to organisations including the British Red Cross, Oxfam and War Child. “Recent world events have highlighted the plight of refugees and asylum seekers both at home and overseas,” the festival said in a statement.
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