Bebington High helps festival-goers ‘Stand As One’ at Glastonbury Music Festival

Bebington High Sports College has created a banner which will be showcased at Oxfam’s enclosure at Glastonbury Music Festival.

The Wirral secondary school is one of a select group of schools chosen to submit a banner to support the global aid charity, Oxfam.

The banner was created by a group of students in support of Oxfam’s ‘Stand As One’ festival campaign. Oxfam will be at festivals across the UK, asking festival-goers to stand together with people who are forced to flee their homes by joining its solidarity campaign, Stand As One.

Since working on the project, the subject has become something very personal to the students at Bebington High.

Since April the school has been running the ‘Future Youth Schools Forum’, a Europe wide forum which is dedicated at looking at the issues around the topic of Forced Migration and Refugees.

This touches many of the students’ lives and their reasons for getting involved with the Forum are displayed on the banner.

The banner was exhibited in the atrium at Oxfam House and the school has received lots of feedback to say how moving and inspirational the banners looked together.

The young people have done some fantastic work to help make a difference, with Oxfam representatives saying: “Their honesty and passion speak volumes about their commitment to making our world a fairer place, to recognising the plight of those forced from their homes and to seeking social justice for the poor and displaced of our world.”

The banners have now been packed and are on their way to the Glastonbury Music Festival which starts today (21 June).

Follow the Oxfam campaign on twitter using #StandAsOne