The Worship Programme is broad and wide-ranging. Why not take this year to Look Sideways, try something new, and see a glimpse of something special in an unexpected place?
New worship acolytes could try traditional Benedictine meditation with Father Laurence Freeman, or visit the Quakers. Those who normally favour something a little more orthodox could try Messy Church's unique combination of church and cake, or EarthAbbey's mix of the ecological and contemplative. You might discover a place like home somewhere you never expected...
Laurence Freeman
Laurence Freeman is a Benedictine monk and teaches meditation in the Christian tradition around the world. Close to his heart is the integration...
Andy Flannagan
feet firmly in the dirt and hands possibly in the air. it can be both/and rather than either/or. justice-themed, politically-aware, spirit-filled. ...
Transcendence
Transcendence combines York Minsterʼs worship skills with Visions multimedia technology. This Eucharistic journey, blends stunning images...
Grace
Grace is a Christian community/network that has been creating participative and interactive worship from our base in Ealing, West London since...
Stuart Townend
Stuart is known and respected around the world as one of the leading worship songwriters of his generation. The depth of lyrical and theological...
Taize
Taizé prayer is a quiet simple way of prayer designed for people of all Christian traditions. A group from around the UK will lead a meditative...
A Rocha
A Rocha UK is a Christian environmental charity which seeks the transformation of people and places through a movement of individuals and communities...
Accord
Beautiful music, creatively arranged and spiritually focused, Accord specialises in exploring the gap between contemporary and traditional Christian...
ACUK (Action/Contemplation UK)
The Center for Action and Contemplation, located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was founded in 1987 by Franciscan Father Richard Rohr. It would...
Agents of Future
Jalopy-gospellers, Agents of Future (arts/music collective from Portland, Oregon), are interested in collaborating with you. If you have never...
Ambient Wonder
Ambient Wonder are seeking to surprise one another with the creativity of God. They try to find a meeting place between meditative traditions,...
Andrew Maries
Andrew Maries is Consultant for Liturgy and Music in Exeter Diocese and Director of Keynote Trust encouraging and stimulating understanding...
Aoradh
Aoradh (Gaelic for 'adoration') is a community of people based in Dunoon, Argyll. Our isolated location means that we are quite diverse in age...
Beyond
Beyond is a new initiative based in Brighton & Hove which aims to explore Christian spirituality through creativity. The aims of Beyond...
Blackthorn Crescent
Kevin Canham and Tom Hiney set up Blackthorn Crescent while working as careworkers in Exeter in 2009. Sampling the voices of some of the people...
Blessed
Exploring the missional possibilities of the sacramental life, Blesséd characterises itself as outrageously Incarnational, rabidly Anglocatholic...
Church of England Liturgical Commission
The Liturgical Commission is is resposible for the development of the Church of England's liturgy. Over thelast five years, through its Transforming...
Contemplative Fire
Contemplative Fire: creating a community of Christ at the Edge. Their worship Gatherings integrate sign, symbol and spaciousness, drawing on...
David Runcorn
David Runcorn is or has been a fast bowler, vicar, accordionist, hermit and chicken keeper. After working full time in theological and ministry...
Deaf Worship
The Deaf community at Greenbelt worships and celebrates and communicates with British Sign Language (BSL). British Sign Language has its own...
EarthAbbey
EarthAbbey is an emerging Christian community whose members commit themselves to journey towards a life more in tune with the earth. EarthAbbey...
Engage Worship
engageworship.org offers training and resources for creative, innovative worship. Sam and Sara Hargreaves, with a growing cohort of contributors...
Ethos
Ethos is a group of people based in Portsmouth who spontaneously came together with a desire to enlarge the vision and grow beyond our boundaries...
Feig
We are a group of fellow travellers, trying to work out what it means to be following Jesus Christ in Gloucester in the 21st century. We...
Foundation
Foundation is an emerging church/fresh expression based in Bristol, a Christian community seeking to live out its faith in a healthy relationship...
Franciscans
Anglican Franciscan sisters and brothers of the Community and Society of St Francis live in community in Britain and around the world, and are...
GothGB
In recent years Christian Goths have embraced Greenbelt. Fr. Alex Gowing-Cumber brought the cyber-feminist Eucharist in 2000 and since 2003...
Ian Adams
Ian is a writer, teacher and artist working in themes of spirituality, culture and community. He co-founded the mayBe community in Oxford, is...
Jake Lever and Chris Thorpe
Chris Thorpe and Jake Lever Jake Lever is an artist based in Cheltenham and Chris Thorpe is an Anglican priest based in Shropshire. They...
king/cave project
The King/Cave project has quickly established itself on the London jazz scene and within the church, inspired by the Nordic worship concept...
L'Arche
Founded by Jean Vanier, L'Arche is movement, where people with and without learning disabilities, share life in Communities belonging to an...
London Catholic Worker
The London Catholic Worker started in 2000. The international CW movement is Catholic pacifist, communal anarchist. We at London CW run two...
mayBe
MayBe is a group of people in and around Oxford working at being a community following in the way of Jesus, seeking to help create a better...
Messy Church
Messy Church has been happily introducing mess (and cake) into the Church since 2004. There are now hundreds of Messy Churches all over the...
Molten Meditation
Molten Meditation - Music and Scripture for Full Immersion. Born out of a desire to spend quality time with God in an immersive and music based...
Moot
Moot is an emerging and new monastic community in the City of London who are seeking to find a means of living a life that is honest to God...
nChant
nChant is a female-voice choir that has been going since about 2002, and have been contributing to the contemplative venue since 2003. With...
Orthodox Parish of St. John of Kronstadt
The Orthodox Parish of St. John of Kronstadt was founded in Bath in 1980. We are a community of about 50 – 70 people of all ages and a number...
OuterSpace
A group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) Christians at Greenbelt, committed to the church, and to affirming LGBT identity. OuterSpace...
Pray & Play
Pray & Play is a small group of Christian parents who need to engage in prayer and bible study as adults, but with others who understand when...
Quakers
Cheltenham Quaker Meeting is part of the Religious Society of Friends in Britain. The Quaker movement grew in the religious turmoil throughout...
Richard Rohr
Fr Richard Rohr is a Franciscan priest of the New Mexico Province. He lives in a hermitage behind his Franciscan community - the Center for...
Rough Edge
Rough Edge is a collective of Durham based Christians, all of whom are part of the same larger worshipping community. The collective often eat,...
Safe Space
safespace is a small community in Telford Shropshire. We are committed to deepening our relationship with each other, with God and with the...
Salesians of Don Bosco
Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB) are members of a religious order within the Roman Catholic Church who, together with other members of the Salesian...
Sanctuary
Sanctuary are a group seeking to explore and build christian community. This takes the shape of meeting together regularly for worship, bible...
Sanctuary 242
Sanctuary242 is an intentional Christian community and ‘Fresh Expression’ based in and around St Albans, Hertfordshire, South East England....
Sanctum
Sanctum (re:connect) is an event which is run by a group made up of people from various churches in the Horsham area. For the last 6 years...
Sanctus1
Sanctus 1 is a community of people who gather together to discover more about Christ, culture and community in Manchester City Centre. Sanctus...
Serum
Serum is a spirituality discussion group for anyone who likes talking about big topics (and they don’t come much bigger than God!). The discussions...
Spirited Exchanges UK
Spirited Exchanges is an umbrella name for a number of initiatives for people who are grappling with faith and church issues. Many have left...
Spontaneous Worship
In unknown places and at surprising times worship will be happening around the festival. A variety of groups will lead a simple act of worship...
St Lukes
Soul Space is a monthly service led by Dave Tomlinson and friends at St Luke's Church in North London. ...
StillPoint
Rooted in the Christian contemplative way, and engaging with other spiritual traditions and the arts, StillPoint nurtures the experiential practice...
Sue Mayfield
Sue Mayfield is a Cheltenham-based writer best known for her award-winning novels for teenagers, several of which deal with themes of bereavement...
Tess Ward
Tess is a hospital chaplain and celebrant in Oxford and writer of The Celtic Wheel of the Year (O books 2007). She celebrates the Celtic seasonal...
The Congregation formerly known as St Luke's
TCFKASL is a small Anglican community finding together what it means to follow Christ in the heart of our city. We’re working out who we’re...
The Silent Pilgrimage
The Silent Pilgrimage: A meditative journey through the physical space of the festival. The temporary architecture of the Greenbelt site...
The Well
A different pathway through the eucharist. Come and join us for our popular communion, with plenty of space for reflection. Led by Revd Paul...
UnReCognised
UnReCognised is a collective of six people, male and female, lay and ordained, of different ages, from United Reformed Churches around the UK....
Wild Goose Resource Group/Holy City
The WILD GOOSE RESOURCE GROUP (John L. Bell, Jo Love & Graham Maule) are known at Greenbelt and around the world for their thoughtful, stimulating,...
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