Oxfam at Hay Festival

The two-week festival ran for its fourth year from 2–15 July 2012 and featured more than 400 local promotions and book-related events which took place in Oxfam shops and other venues across the country.

The events included a host of authors, poets and celebrities, and activities for the whole family.

Oxfam Bookfest: The UK's largest community book festival

The annual Bookfest sees a huge boost in book sales in Oxfam shops and bookshops, and an extra 300,000 books donated to the shops generating thousands of pounds in additional book sales for Oxfam over the summer.

As well as raising money through book sales and donations for Oxfam's vital work, Bookfest celebrates the central role that books and reading play across lives and communities in the UK and beyond.

Book donations at the Hay Festival in 2009–2010 provided the equivalent of the stock needed to set up five new Oxfam bookshops: an incredibly generous contribution to Oxfam's life-changing work. As a book lover, you can share the love by bringing along a volume (or two or three) to help Oxfam fill its donation container at each year's Hay Festival.

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Hay Festival runs for ten days with a packed programme of debates and conversations with poets and scientists, novelists and historians, artists and gardeners, comedians and musicians, film makers and politicians.

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Hay Fever - our festival for families and children, runs across the ten days of the festival where children have the chance to meet and talk to their favourite writers and take part in workshops to create wonderful memories and develop new skills in imaginative thinking and self expression.

Hf2 is our festival for teenagers - with an awesome line-up featuring the movers and shakers of Young Adult writing, Hf2 is a mind-blowing experience for 13-plus.

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We care passionately about our environment. Hay-on-Earth debates the latest thoughts on climate change and environmental awareness.

In 2006 we started the Hay-on-Earth Project to audit, address and change our ecological sustainability.