Glastonbury tickets are always hard to come by - so I tried to grab a place at the UK’s most famous music festival in an unusual manner.
Oxfam have teamed up with Glastonbury and Tony’s Choclolonley to offer festival lovers a chance to win two tickets to the Somerset festival. There are five pairs of tickets hidden in special Glastonbury themed bars across the UK’s Oxfam shops, with a QR code link to tickets inside the packaging for lucky winners.
I have never been to Glastonbury but have always felt a large amount of jealousy seeing so many Scousers making the pilgrimage down to the Pyramid Stage. I decided to take my chances and headed to Oxfam on Bold Street to see if I could be the winner of a Willy Wonka-style giveaway.
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I first visited yesterday afternoon but there were no bars left - a sign of the competition's popularity. Thankfully, when I visited again this morning, there were several bars on the till.
Given there are only five lucky winners, I bought my bar in hope rather than expectation. My pessimism was proven right - there was no QR code inside the packaging of my purchase.
The delicious taste of the milk caramel and sea salt flavour somewhat made up for it. But the most illuminating part of the process was learning about Tony's Chocolonely itself.
Tony’s Chocolonely was founded in 2005 by Dutch journalist Teun (Tony) van de Keuken after he believed that "most chocolate on supermarket shelves was made from cocoa harvested by slaves".
The inside of the packaging contains further information, alleging that the chocolate we devour every day is made by slave labour on coca farms in West Africa. The business claims that their chocolate is “100% slave free” and shows “the world that chocolate can be made differently”.
My Glastonbury dream will live on for another year. In the meantime, I’m happy to have discovered a chocolate that is tasty and seems to have good ethics informing their business practices.
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