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For the fourth year in succession Hereford United supporters will be manning a car park at the world famous Hay Festival which starts this coming Thursday, May 21st.
And, again for the fourth year, the Macmillan Renton Appeal for new cancer facilities at Hereford Hospital is the charity the supporters are backing. Over the past three years over £35,000 has been raised for this most deserving cause from the profits of this car park.
The Hay Festival is based just outside the small market town of Hay, some 20 miles or so west of Hereford. There is something for everybody at the Festival.
The programme of some five hundred events takes place in the tented festival village where writers, politicians, poets, scientists, comedians, philosophers and musicians come together on the greenfield site to talk, eat, think, drink and be merry.
As well as well known figures from the literary world those appearing over the eleven days include Desmond Tutu, Tony Curtis, Trudie Styler and Sting, Rick Wakeman, Frank Skinner, Robert Peston, Stephen Fry, Jo Whiley and Dylan Morgan.
For those coming to the Festival from Hay/Leominster/Hereford/Ross the Macmillan car park is on the left hand side just after the Festival site.
If approaching from Brecon/Builth/Abergavenny the car park is on the right immediately before the Festival.
The Macmillan car park will open at mid-day next Thursday and close when the last vehicle leaves. Parking costs £5 per day, or £3 after 6pm, and includes free travel on the Booth's Books Bus which is a regular shuttle service from the Festival into the centre of Hay.
Four days parking will cost £15 and a 'season' ticket will cost £30.
Meanwhile the Festival has its own real ale this year. Brewed by the Spinning Dog Brewery, Hereford it is called 'May Blossom'. It can be purchased in the Herefordshire Real Ale and Traditional Cider Bar which will also have draught cider from Westons.
Finally there is a second festival taking place in Hay over the same eleven days. How The Light Gets In is the UK's first philosophy and music festival in Hay on-Wye and is based at the Globe in the centre of the town.
