Glastonbury Festival Policy Versus Theory

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“Glastonbury Festival Donation” Policy Versus Theory
The Glastonbury Festival indicates that the majority of the festival profits would be donated to different charity. Deducted the entire dispose all the rubbish fee during the event, the profit will mainly contributed to Oxfam, Greenpeace and WaterAid, to assist the relatively people to improve their residence and sanitation (Digital, 2017). As well as these three beneficiaries, the festival also dedicates to support the local schools and sports groups, for example, the Butleigh Primary School, Horrington School Association and Shepton Mallet Football Club (Glastonbury Festival, 2017).

Regarding to the CSR policy, this policy fulfills the ethical responsibility. Since most of the festival organizer aims to earn and maximize profit, and the establisher does not has any responsibility to support the charity in reality. However, the festival organizer Michael Eavis on the contrary just takes modest salary and donates the remaining profit to the local charity (Events-insurance.co.uk, 2014). This action can be defined as the code of ethics and fulfill the ethical responsibility in the economic pillar.

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Over the past three years, £3.75 million have contributed to the charity. In the last year, the total donations exceed to £6 million, which reflect that this policy is under an unprecedented successful (Glastonbury Festival, 2017). However, in 2015, due to it cost £780,000 to handle the entire disposes of the rubbish fee during the event, which means £780,000 less to the charity. With this amount, it can benefit 52,000 people to improve their quality of life (Digital, 2017). Therefore, this also reflects that the previous policy, “Limit what you bring, and clean up behind you” policy needs to well implement so as to reduce the percentage of waste, or else it will affect the practices of this policy as

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