Glastonbury Pageant has reported an increase in income after a powerful yr that featured performances from international stars together with Dua Lipa and Shania Twain, enabling tens of millions of kilos to be channelled into charitable causes.
Accounts filed at Corporations Home present that Glastonbury Pageant Occasions Restricted, the working firm behind Glastonbury Pageant, elevated revenues to £75.2 million within the yr to March 31, 2025, up from £68.4 million the earlier yr. Pre-tax income climbed to £7.7 million, in contrast with £5.9 million in 2024.
The outcomes relate to a pageant yr that noticed Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA headline the Pyramid Stage, whereas Shania Twain took the coveted Sunday legends slot. The corporate additionally operates two smaller occasions on Worthy Farm – the Pilton Celebration and the Glastonbury Abbey Extravaganza.
Regardless of the uplift in income, organisers mentioned they remained dedicated to protecting ticket costs as accessible as potential. A regular weekend ticket for the 2024 pageant price £355, plus a £5 reserving price, with the enterprise stating that value restraint stays a core precept.
A major proportion of Glastonbury’s income proceed to be directed in direction of charitable causes. Throughout the 2025 monetary yr, the pageant made donations of greater than £2.7 million, with complete funds exceeding £4.2 million distributed to greater than 300 organisations by December.
Beneficiaries included long-standing companions Oxfam, Greenpeace and WaterAid, alongside a £100,000 donation to Médecins Sans Frontières to help humanitarian efforts in Sudan and a surgical hospital in Amman serving sufferers from throughout the Center East.
The pageant additionally backed a spread of native initiatives, together with major faculty enrichment programmes, eco-friendly farming initiatives and biodiversity schemes supported by organisations such because the Somerset Wildlife Belief and Shepton Mallet Group Woodland.
Led by founder Sir Michael Eavis on the age of 90, Glastonbury stays one of many UK’s most profitable cultural occasions, combining blockbuster musical performances with a long-standing dedication to environmental and humanitarian causes.
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