Glastonbury Festival recorded a modest pre-tax net profit of £86,000 on turnover of £37.4 million in 2014, according to publicly available accounts filed with Companies House.

The company – Glastonbury Festival 2015 Limited – made charitable donations of £695,974 during the year – up from 348,000 in 2013. Other outgoings included £1.5m on payroll and £500,000 to Michael Eavis’s farming company as compensation for loss of earnings and wear and tear as a result of the farmland being used for ...