Festival Republic | Initiatives

For over 25 years we have collected charity donations at our festivals and supported a huge range of local, national and international charities and non-profit groups. Your donations have helped support everything from local children’s groups to international health and education programmes.

Here’s a selection of our current charity partners and a short introduction to their work.

Action Aid – Helping women and young girls escape poverty and violence and realise their potential.

Oxfam – Oxfam is a global movement of millions of people working together to end the injustices that cause poverty.

Child.Org – Dedicated to transforming the lives of children born in the most difficult places in the world

Bike for Cambodia – Donations have built two schools, and a dental clinic with a tooth brushing programme offering free dental care to those in need.

Attitude is Everything – Working to improve Deaf and disabled people’s access to the world of live music.

British Red Cross – Help anyone, anywhere in the UK and around the world get the support they need if crisis strikes.

ReBalance is a pioneering initiative from Festival Republic dedicated to supporting female and female-identifying musicians and bands within the music industry. Dedicated to tackling gender imbalance head-on, the programme offers vital support to emerging artists and aspiring sound engineers across the UK.

Each year, ReBalance provides fully-funded studio time, including accommodation, travel, and engineering support, giving the artists/bands the tools and space to create without financial barriers. As part of this commitment, every participating artist or band is guaranteed a slot at a Festival Republic or Live Nation festival.

ReBalance also opens the studio doors to those looking to break into sound engineering and production, offering apprenticeships that provide hands-on experience in a typically male-dominated field.

In response to the PRS Foundation’s Women Make Music evaluation, which revealed that just 16% of UK songwriters and composers are women and highlighted engineering as a “male closed shop”, ReBalance is actively working to change the narrative. By nurturing female artists and engineers, the programme is building a stronger, more inclusive talent pipeline for the future of music.