Your tent or mine

Fortunately, help is at hand at this year’s festival. Campaign charity War on Want will be dolling out thousands of the rubber fellas as part of its “Screw Poverty” campaign at Glastonbury.

Nick Dearden, senior campaigns officer at War on Want, said: “If you look at the festival as a microcosm of the world, then half of the people here will be living on less than $2 a day. And let’s face it – some of them will! Since this is not enough to buy a tent peg, let alone copious amounts of booze, it helps put global poverty into sharp perspective.”

But remember, if it’s love at first sight, make a beeline for the Left Field. Even the most dazed and confused among you will find us with ease. Just make for the 30 foot L-shaped tower poking out of the Left Field.

Of course, there’s more than one way to “Screw Poverty” at Glastonbury. As well as picking up your free condom from War on Want, you could be dancing away to the peoples’ tunes or chill to visuals depicting examples of peoples' struggle the world over.

You can also broaden your mind by taking part in live debates with War on Want project partners from across the world and by checking out some activist street theatre in the Left Field.

Whatever your views, you’re welcome to join in at the Left Field and be part of the solution. There’s more than one way to screw poverty – and War on Want is happy to provide you with an option or two.

For more information, contact War on Want media officer Marc Lopatin at Glastonbury on: 077391 186640