Passports and wallet with £364 found at festivals

Hundreds of passports and a wallet containing £364 in cash are among items recovered at music festivals by Steve Wood.

His firm Events Wellbeing handles lost property and other welfare issues at a number of festivals, including the Isle of Wight Festival, which ends later.

Some items, including lost phones, end up at his home, awaiting contact from the owner.

"They've all got alarms on them," Wood said. "For the next week, two weeks, there's alarms going off left, right and centre."

He tried putting the phones in his garden shed but neighbours complained about the noise, he added.

Wood, who has been an event welfare director for 21 years, said his living room "becomes like a jumble sale [and] smells of 'festival'.

"Sometimes we get someone's suitcase with their whole belongings right at the first day and nobody will pick it up until the last day," he said.

"So how they're camping or what they're doing, we just don't know."

He expects a year's haul of lost property from the multiple festivals he works for to include about 500 passports, a similar number of driving licences and "unmentionable" items.

"It's such a good job because when we see people coming up... we're like just the best thing," Wood added.

"It's like, 'we can't thank you enough'. Just to reunite something with someone."

His career highlight was the wallet stuffed with £364 that was reunited with its owner at the Creamfields Festival.

"There's some really good people about that hand lost stuff in nowadays," Wood said.

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