17/08/2026
Our first festival event of the year is over and it was a scorcher!
We were back at the Isle of Wight (our seventh year in a row) to salvage tents and sleeping bags to supply our partners overseas with winter stock. It was also our second year running the Green Team at the festival which was much expanded from last years trial. 20 fabulous volunteers worked tirelessly in the heat and dust. engaging with campers to help them recycle, keep the campsites clean and show them how to fold down those pesky pop-up tents! We also had official donation points in each area where people could choose to donate tents, sleeping bags and other items. It was a great success and a massive thank you to Charlotte Buttery, our manager on the island for once again going above and beyond in overseeing every aspect of the team right through the festival and still turning out to help with the salvage afterwards..! Legend...🧡
The salvage itself went very smoothly, a big thanks to the Isle of Wight Festival for having us back again. The environmental message is definitely getting through (helped by our Green Team😉) as what was a multi-day, multi-vehicle job is now completed in a couple of hours with two vans. We still collected a good amount of tents, sleeping bags and other equipment with very little left on the fields going to waste.
We were delighted to have our good friends from Emmaus Hertfordshire back with us again, they do a fabulous job and it wouldn't be the same without them.
Finally, we couldn't do any of it without the fantastic Green Team and salvage volunteers who did a truly amazing job in very hot and sticky weather, thank you all, we love you and hope to see you again next time!
If you'd like to join us in the fields, we have two more salvage events this year. Boomtown on 18th-19th August & Reading on 31st Aug-1st September.
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See you in the fields..!
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Reading - https://forms.gle/vL33pJFrRi63FHVW6
