Organisers of the Leeds Festival have announced ten grand was raised for the city's St Martin's Hospice from bus fares taken during the event. Mean Fiddler and coach company Geldards ran a bus service to the festival site in a bid to encourage less people to drive to the event. A portion of each bus ticket sold was set aside for charity, and that money will now be donated to the hospice on 24 Nov.
About 30% of the Leeds Festival audience used the shuttle bus from Leeds city centre rather than driving to the site, which, festival organisers say, helped ensure the impact the event had on its local environment was reduced. A statement from Mean Fiddler says: "We would like to thank all festival goers for recognising the 'green' message of the festival and showing support for Mean Fiddler's attempts to have as little environmental impact as possible throughout the weekend."