Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – A Journey of Greenbelt Vibing

Sustainability matters to us here at Greenbelt. But so does having a beautiful festival environment. Our site vibing team work hard to re-purpose materials from one year to another. And we asked...

Teakster

Teakster is an award-winning artist, who artistic style is a fusion of Middle-Eastern artistic traditions and modern techniques inspired by his British upbringing. His work has been featured in...

Go on a life changing journey

A guest blog from our Associate USPG   https://player.vimeo.com/video/144247349 ‘I wouldn't swap the experience for anything,' says Rebecca Boardman, who spent ten months in the...

Malak Mattar

Malak is a Palestinian from Gaza and just 18 years old, but she is old beyond her years, having lived through three major attacks on her home. She didn't start painting until 2014, when the...

Dawn Foster

Dawn Foster is a columnist and contributor at The Guardian newspaper, and also contributes to the New York Times, London Review of Books, and Prospect magazine. She is a regular commentator on the...

Communion: Bring a Body

Gather from 10am for our annual festival communion service. All are welcome. This year's communion service – entitled “Bring a Body” is designed to reflect and celebrate how radically...
Speaker(s): Fischy Music

The contemplative organiser: developing a spirituality of action

Community organising is rooted in multiple traditions, and inseparable from their spiritual practices. In this workshop, we explore how contemplation can nurture action, and how organising should...

Transforming your church, changing the world: using community organising to reinvigorate your congregation to work for the common good

Learn from two people who know it works! Revd Keith Hebden and Revd Canon Angus Ritchie share their first-hand experiences of using community organising to build congregations that are passionate –...

Looking for a Living Wage: How to run a Living Wage campaign in your area

The Living Wage campaign started in our very first community alliance in East London in 2001. In this session we share the tried-and-tested organising methods that root this national campaign in...

A different kind of power: what does power have to do with theology, and why does it matter for community organising?

Power. This hotly-debated, sometimes keenly avoided, concept is central to community organising. We share the secret – and the theological basis – of a power based on relationships, not...

The real art of the deal: negotiating for the common good

Want your MP to change their mind on your issue? Looking for a living wage commitment from a local business? Our role-play scenarios will put you in the hot seat, on both sides of the table,...

Hot House: Religion leads to violence. It always has and always will

Since 9/11, and stretching back centuries before, the worst atrocities committed against humanity have been motivated by religious conviction and difference. And things don't seem to be getting...
Speaker(s): Salma Yaqoob, Clive Stafford Smith, Sahar Vardi, Lisa-Raine Hunt

Welcoming the stranger: a guide to community sponsorship of refugees

Want to support and welcome refugees coming to the UK? Learn how your congregation can take part in the community sponsorship programme championed by Citizens UK. With Neil Jameson, Citizens UK's...

Walking the way into the future

A guest blog from Revd Peter Ball of our sponsor Westminster College These are exciting times full of new opportunities for all of us. Here at Westminster College  Cambridge, as we look to...

Salish Kumar in Conversation

Hear the amazing story of a one-time-monk who gave up everything to walk around the world for peace in the 1960s, eventually settling in Devon and helping to establish the Schumacher College as well...
Speaker(s): Satish Kumar