Share It

For the second year running we have joined forces with the National Liftshare Network to offer a cheap and sociable way to get to the festival and in the process cut carbon emissions. You can sign up to the scheme, which safely connects drivers and passengers online by visiting our LiftShare page.

And the great news for this year is by signing up and using Liftshare you will get priority parking on site making it quicker for you to get in and start enjoying the weekend.

Get On Someone's Bike

An even greener way to get to the festival is by bike and with safe and secure bike racks available there is no excuse not to get on two wheels. Haven’t got your own bike? Well we’ve thought of that too and are again offering a bike hire scheme on site thanks to our partners London Bicycle Tour Company. You can hire a bike by the hour or for the whole weekend making it easy to pop out and replenish supplies when it suits you.

New for this year will be THE BIG FESTIVAL BIKE RIDE, a guided bike ride that will take about an hour and a half happening on the Saturday and Sunday mornings before the bands start. It will be a great way to see bit more of the island before you go home again and might blow the cobwebs away before another day of festival fun. The meeting point for this will be the London Bicycle Touring Company hire point and it only costs a tenner plus hire fee. If you bring your own bike you are welcome to join in too and you just have to pay the tenner. Check the website out before you come for start times and also on the screens by the stage once you are at the festival.

Visit the Hive in the Arboretum

A new area this year is a chill out zone called The Hive located in the Arboretum. A mix of tasty Isle of Wight food and drink; straw bales to relax on; live guitar music; and a place where you can learn more about our environmental work with partners Gift to Nature, including our headline campaign for the second year running GIVE BEES A CHANCE. This year we will be raising money by selling bee bugs in order to initiate a bee research project in the south of the Isle of Wight, focusing on habitat benefits for the solitary mining bee - the results of which could be used worldwide in a bid to protect the dwindling bee population. More info on Give Bees a Chance will be here soon!

Did You Forget Something?

Last year it took us ages to take down all of the tents left behind after the festival and more importantly we narrowly missed sending them all to landfill. Contrary to popular belief most of the tents will not be taken by relief missions to overseas trouble spots, as they are not big enough or strong enough, therefore we have no choice in most cases to send them to landfill.  Luckily last year we managed to find homes for most of them but this won’t be the case this year so please, please, please have a conscience and take them home ready to use again next year.

Looking forward to seeing you all in June.

Mark, Rick and Juliet.
Eco Action Partnership Ltd.

Contact us
Tel : 0208 241 4411
mark.ward@ecoactionpartnership.com
juliet.ross-kelly@ecoactionpartnership.com
richard.storey@ecoactionpartnership.com
www.ecoactionpartnership.com

With special thanks to
Jim Fawcett (Isle of Wight Council), Sue Cracknell(Isle of Wight Council), Laurie Tenant (Engenius), Ian Boyd (Island 2000), Sam and Martin (Gift to Nature), Steve Squires (Proven Energy), Malcolm Cox, Finian Day-Lewis (Photographer)