The Glaston Group formed on 27 January 2004 as a group of eleven concerned and active Glastonbury residents who began to explore and listen to how the town could provide better services for pilgrim visitors and become more cohesive for those living in Glastonbury. The group acts as a catalyst, working with others where possible, to help provide ideas, visions and potential and practical help.

The principal keynotes are:

• Information – expanding existing information about Glastonbury and making it more accessible
• Networking – putting people and groups in touch with each other
• Gatherings and Meetings – occasional events and get-togethers when it is appropriate providing a forum for interesting speakers and giving active residents in the town a chance to share and meet others informally
• Publications – providing and distributing small informative booklets about Glastonbury.

Helping Glastonbury to come into its own is an exciting project. If you would like to be involved or kept informed of the work of The Glaston Group, please get in touch with us by giving details of your own areas of interest and where we may contact you.

The Glaston group has an email list of likeminded people. We are not “an organisation” but act as catalyst to help people and groups via ideas and facilitating networking. So, if you have a need for inspiration and possibly some help, send an email or send a letter to Glaston Group, PO Box 4203, Glastonbury, BA6 9XJ. We may know of someone, or a group, to put you in touch with, or we may find a contact by sending an email out to the whole network.

Photo © Lloyd Drew	Copies of our booklet ‘Glastonbury – a Pilgrim’s Perspective’, now in its fourth printing and revised, are available from the following outlets in Glastonbury, priced £2.50: The Library of Avalon, Psychic Piglet, the Abbey Shop, Growing Needs, The Celtic Thread, the Sufi Shop, St. Johns Church and Chalice Well bookshop.
	Copies of the DVD of a talk (for further details click here) given by Dr. Marion Bowman, Senior lecturer at the Open University, at the April 2007 Glaston Group Gathering are available from the following outlets in Glastonbury, priced £5.00: Psychic Piglet, Growing Needs, Chalice Well bookshop.

Details of the background to the formation of the group on the next page.
For more information about Glastonbury visit Glastonbury Online and IsleofAvalon