Unfortunately we are unable to offer price concessions for disabled people. We can, however, be flexible if the participant needs to be accompanied by a helper, and seats can be reserved for special requirements. If this is your situation, please contact us to discuss the matter and we will see what we can do to help.

We can happily accommodate wheelchairs in the Town Hall, with entry gained from the side of the hall rather than the main entrance (where there are steps). Toilet facilities for the disabled are available on the same level as the main hall, in the corridor just outside the auditorium rear doors. Please inform us in advance if you need to bring a wheelchair and we will be able to leave a space in the main seating on request.

People with special needs (a disability, for instance) may request a reserved seat in advance by contacting us, but otherwise seats cannot be saved. Attendees sometimes leave things on their chairs to reserve their place, but this is only acceptable when covering shorter breaks. Please note that during major intermissions (lunch and dinner) seats must not be reserved this way – any items left at these times will be cleared and made available for collection at the front desk. Likewise, if a speaker is popular and seating is an issue, we may clear any chairs which don’t have an occupant two minutes before the lecture!

Castle Cary is the nearest station to Glastonbury but it is in the middle of the countryside, has fewer choices of trains and the connecting bus service is limited. If you can afford a taxi (approximately £30), or somehow get a lift by car, then Castle Cary is the best option from London or Devon. However, Bristol has frequent trains connecting with London, Wales, the Midlands and the North. There’s a bus service (376) which runs to Glastonbury every hour. If you are travelling on a budget or flexible timings, Bristol may be your best option. More about transport options here.

If you have friends in or near Glastonbury with whom you can leave the kids, of course, this might be best on the whole!

We do not allow filming of the presentations to take place without very special permission. Professionally-filmed videos of most of our speakers are eventually made available by us, so there is little need for further recording.

We also ask that attendees do not take still photographs during a presentation, as waving phones and lights are very distracting to the audience and may also contravene copyrighted images on the main screen. Photography in-between lectures and in the stalls room, cafe and corridors is fine, but please bear in mind the privacy of other attendees.

If you are a TV crew or production company wishing to film elements of the Symposium for documentaries or other professional purposes, please contact us directly and we will consider your requests, but we always insist that any filming we agree to must be discreet and should not in any way inconvenience or impede our attendees, front of house staff or technical crew.