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Print press manufacturer, HEIDELBERG, is officially partnering with Glastonbury to provide an apprenticeship for the festival’s newspaper, which prints on a vintage HEIDELBERG cylinder press
Print press manufacturer, HEIDELBERG UK, has announced a partnership with Glastonbury Festival.
Glastonbury is an internationally renowned five-day music and performing arts festival, taking place on 1500 acres of farmland in Somerset and attended by over 200,000 people. This year’s line-up includes Olivia Rodrigo, The Prodigy, The 1975, Neil Young, Charli XCX, Rod Stewart, and many others.
For 2025, HEIDELBERG UK is officially partnering with the Glastonbury Festival Free Press, the official festival newspaper, throughout the event.
Now in its 12th year of production, the newspaper is printed in the Theatre & Circus fields of the festival on a vintage 1957 seven-ton HEIDELBERG cylinder press, with tens of thousands of copies printed by hand each year. These copies are distributed for free around the festival at different locations and times.
Alongside the newspaper, a series of collectible posters are printed with a different theme each year, which are sold during the course of the festival. The 70-year-old HEIDELBERG press is reportedly still in perfect running condition.
As part of this year’s official partnership, HEIDELBERG will also provide an apprenticeship to a young person from the festival and its partners. This apprentice will receive training as a printing machine engineer.
Ryan Miles, managing director of HEIDELBERG UK, says: “We are thrilled to partner with the Glastonbury Free Press.
“The Free Press at Glastonbury is a real piece of HEIDELBERG history. This year, HEIDELBERG celebrates its 175th anniversary, creating the perfect opportunity to give back to the local community. We are delighted to be able to give a young person working in the festival the opportunity to be part of the HEIDELBERG Apprentice Scheme.”
Speaking to the BBC about the Glastonbury Free Press for its tenth anniversary in 2023, Chris Salmon, a writer for the newspaper, said: “You see people coming down who used to work in Fleet Street 50 years ago, who are just so excited to see a HEIDELBERG – and you get five and six-year-olds whose minds are being blown that this thing is kind of spewing out tens of thousands of copies of a newspaper."
Glastonbury Festival 2025 will run from June 25th to 29th. The Free Press section will operate on all five days of the festival to produce thousands of copies of the Free Press newspaper, as well as creative posters and other promotional items for sale.
