Oxfam

Dear Oxfam,

At the dawn of Summer I am utterly disappointed to acknowledge the that I might not be able to attend at the up and coming Glade festival. Due to my over stretched finance after four years of university without student loan, my intention was to reward myself with a time out at one UK festival. The Glade festival seemed to be an ideal option as it is known to have the charm of Glastonbury and an artists line up to match, let alone the forty pounds deficit.

This is where it annoys me as I was eager to apply a stewarding job with your organisation, and policy has already been set that a deposit of 130 pounds is required for all festivals. I feel that it is fair that Oxfam should take precarious measures to ensure operation would run smoothly, but it should never be a method to disguise an attempt to exploit keen volunteers.

In this case, first Oxfam should explain the motives of having a fixed deposit fee, or else it needs to be more flexible as Glade festival tickets are valued at 89 pounds including booking fee on their offical website, which means Oxfam would gain a clear 41 pounds profit on each ticket during the time these deposits are held, should Oxfam also pay the same amount as general public, which I doubted. While I am only focus on the Glade festival, my estimation 200 volunteers pay their deposit by the end of May, a sum of 8000 pounds (Based on *all deposits* £26,000 - *ticket costs* £18,000) would be availble for Oxfam to invest into their other campagins, earn high interests from fixed term loan etc. In my opinion that is a fair sum on top of the £25,000 donation from Glade festival.

Oxfam have been presistantly claim to support free trade across the globe, and progress can be felt by the increasing popularity of Free Trade goods. But I for once feel Oxfam has seriously breached such ideal approach on this occasion. It would be welcomed if Oxfam consider a more realistic pricing model for deposit fee next festivals season.

Kind regards,

Eric.