THEY were dumped and left for someone else to clear up.

But hundreds of tents from BoomTown Fair near Winchester have been put to a new use by a charity based more than 80 miles away.

Over 1,000 tents abandoned at BoomTown, Reading and Electric Picnic festivals have been delivered to homeless migrants in Calais, France.

St Albans-based homelessness charity Emmaus Hertfordshire transported the abandoned tents across the Channel.

Tents are now so cheap that many festival-goers simply leave them on the site for the organisers to deal with.

The charity received a donation from three Irish festival goers who collected the discarded tents. They are part of a group dedicated to supporting refugee camps across the world.

Emmaus Hertfordshire chief executive Tony Ferrier said: “Since the camps in Calais were demolished in 2016, many of the migrants have been displaced. They are living in the woods, or anywhere that they can, while trying to avoid the authorities.

“Although they are not illegal, they are not welcome in Calais anymore.”