If you missed out on bagging Glastonbury tickets and have been kicking yourself ever since, you’re in luck; along with a final chance to secure the goods in the upcoming resale, there’s now there’s another route into the Somerset festival.
Luckily, it’s a fun one which involves hunting down some sweet treats: Tony’s Chocolonely is teaming up with Oxfam to hide five pairs of Glastonbury tickets inside special edition chocolate bars, just like Willy Wonka’s golden tickets. All profits go to the charity.
So what are the rules? Firstly, the bars are only being sold at Oxfam branches and in Oxfam’s online store – so don’t run down to your local supermarket.
Next, it’s about buying the right bar: tickets will only be hidden in the Milk Caramel Sea Salt and the Dark Almond Sea Salt vegan bars – buying other flavours is a waste of money, unless you simply want to eat them, of course.
Players have to be 18 or older, though the winner’s guest can be under the age of 16 (more T&Cs on this here). The chocolate competition starts today and runs until June 21, and the winning tickets are general admission weekend tickets only – travel and accommodation are not included.
Here we go again! pic.twitter.com/4V6tcMQUQX
— GlastoGals (@GlastoGals) April 8, 2024
“Here we go again!” said one fan on X. “Could you hang on another few weeks, I’ve still got 20 Easter Eggs to get through before I start trying to win a Glasto ticket,” said another.Another simply posted a picture of the 1996 Matilda film’s Bruce Bogtrotter, his face covered in chocolate after having eaten an 18-inch chocolate cake.
“Over the past 25 years, Glastonbury Festival has raised millions of pounds for Oxfam as one of their official charity partners,” said Oxfam, who ran the same competition with Tony’s last year. “Tony’s Chocolonely are leading by example; working to make the chocolate industry 100% slave free.”
The Dutch chocolate company was founded in Amsterdam in 2005 by TV producer Teun van de Keuken, who was alarmed after finding out that most of the chocolate eaten in the world had links to slave labour. Over the last 15 years the company has tried to make its supply chain as close to slavery and child labour free as possible, though it admits “we’re not quite there yet”.
“We are doing everything we can to prevent slavery and child labour, we are also realistic,” says the chocolate’s website.
— Lucy Miles (@lucy_harden) April 8, 2024
Glastonbury has been the talk of the town since its line-up was released mid-March. Dua Lipa, Coldplay, SZA, Shania Twain, Little Simz, Burna Boy, PJ Harvey, Cyndi Lauper, The National, Avril Lavigne, Camila Cabello, Sugababes, Danny Brown and many more will be performing.
In November, true to form, tickets for the Somerset festival sold out in under an hour.
