Festival Republic

For over 25 years we have collected charity donations at our festivals and supported a huge range of local, national and international charities and non-profit groups. Your donations have helped support everything from local children’s groups to international health and education programmes.

Here’s a selection of our current charity partners and a short introduction to their work.

Action Aid – Helping women and young girls escape poverty and violence and realise their potential.

Oxfam – Oxfam is a global movement of millions of people working together to end the injustices that cause poverty.

Child.Org – Dedicated to transforming the lives of children born in the most difficult places in the world

Bike for Cambodia – Donations have built two schools, and a dental clinic with a tooth brushing programme offering free dental care to those in need.

Attitude is Everything – Working to improve Deaf and disabled people’s access to the world of live music.

British Red Cross – Help anyone, anywhere in the UK and around the world get the support they need if crisis strikes.

To learn more about the vital and exciting work of these charities, please click the links below and check out their websites.

Action Aid – Oxfam – Child.org – Bike For Cambodia – Attitude Is Everything – British Red Cross

ReBalance is a pioneering initiative from Festival Republic dedicated to supporting female and female-identifying musicians and bands within the music industry. Dedicated to tackling gender imbalance head-on, the programme offers vital support to emerging artists and aspiring sound engineers across the UK.

Each year, ReBalance provides fully-funded studio time, including accommodation, travel, and engineering support, giving the artists/bands the tools and space to create without financial barriers. As part of this commitment, every participating artist or band is guaranteed a slot at a Festival Republic or Live Nation festival.

ReBalance also opens the studio doors to those looking to break into sound engineering and production, offering apprenticeships that provide hands-on experience in a typically male-dominated field.

In response to the PRS Foundation’s Women Make Music evaluation, which revealed that just 16% of UK songwriters and composers are women and highlighted engineering as a “male closed shop”, ReBalance is actively working to change the narrative. By nurturing female artists and engineers, the programme is building a stronger, more inclusive talent pipeline for the future of music.

Stay tuned! Exciting ReBalance events and projects will be announced soon.

Festival Republic endeavours to deliver festivals and events with the least amount of environmental impact as possible. Working through every aspect of the festival, we develop systems across key areas such as energy, waste, water, transport and purchasing. A Sustainability Coordinator is employed to work with the Festival Republic team, contractors and suppliers to focus on sustainability issues and develop innovative solutions. We work closely to reduce our impact, and implement systems onsite which the audience can participate in, providing the opportunity for encouraging positive behaviour change.

Having the audience participate in our green initiatives may also lead to similar actions in their everyday lives. In fact, much of our audience already acts sustainably at home, and expects the same when attending our festivals and events. We hope Festival Republic’s focus on sustainable practices will impact the industry through our suppliers, contractors and membership of industry wide coalition Powerful Thinking.  We have signed the Festival Vision : 2025 pledge to work together with other festivals to understand, and aim to reduce, our carbon emissions to 50% by 2025 (from 2014 levels) following the Paris Agreement.