The HSQE Department supports the "Childrens World" charity at the Glastonbury Festival

Anyone curious to know why the office was closed at the end of June had only to queue with hungry circus & cabaret performers at The Glastonbury Festival of Performing Arts.  Managing Associate, Richard Shearwood-Porter, spent 6 days on site working for the charity "Childrens World".

Richard explains "My wife & I have worked for Childrens World at the Glastonbury Festival for a number of years, helping to raise money by back-stage catering.  For the last two years, we have run the evening shift at The Green Room, which provides a restaurant, cocktail bar and music venue for performers & crew.  We feed and rub shoulders with some well-known comedians from radio & television and have our own private festival behind the scenes, with impromtu sets that can go on until three in the morning.  It can be pretty hard work when you've got two hundred famished people queueing out of the door, but it's ultimately very rewarding."

Children's World was founded by Arabella Churchill, grand-daughter of Sir Winston Churchill, in 1981 to provide educational, creative and social benefits for all children with particular reference to children with special needs.  The charity works mainly in the South West of England (although it has worked across the U.K. and still does), and runs a huge variety of workshops in schools and special schools. Children's World also undertakes out of school work and runs two brilliant Children's Festivals each year.

Children's World.