Festival Communion
Mainstage Sunday
This year we'll be celebrating our Festival Communion service on Sunday afternoon rather than in the morning.
Taize
The Taize community does not organise a movement around itself. Instead, after a stay at Taize, people are invited to set out on a 'pilgrimage of trust' wherever they live, encouraged by an experience of prayer and with greater awareness of their bonds with many others who are involved in a similar search.
Under and Over the Sea
Around the site / TBC
The large-scale sculptures (Podules) of Jan Niedojadlo challenge our assumed and traditional notions of artistic engagement.
Sanctus2nds
Sanctus2nds is a sanctuary for creativity, reflection and socialising.
Molten Meditation
Molten Meditation was formed out of a desire to experience God through scripture, music and meditation within our own cultural context. Originally a move away from the noisier and more frenetic elements of charismatic worship, this year they're trying to find a path between the two.
Ikon
Inhabiting a space on the outer edges of religious life, ikon is a Belfast-based collective who describe themselves as iconic, apocalyptic, heretical, emerging and failing.
Contemplative Fire
Contemplative Fire: creating a community of Christ at the Edge. Their worship Gatherings integrate sign, symbol and spaciousness, drawing on Biblical texts, the Christian contemplative tradition, contemporary Christian art that are woven together with music and chant sourced from early medieval, Russian Orthodox and Afro-celtic, often led by Philip Roderick of Sheer Sound.
Moot
Moot is a developing community of spiritual travellers who are seeking to find a means of living a life that is honest to god and honest to now. Moot seeks to make connections and find inspirations in the meeting of faith, life and culture. Moot looks to the Christian call for justice, equity and balance as a means of living politically and ethically.
Sanctus1
Sanctus 1 is a community of people who gather together to discover more about Christ, culture and community in Manchester City Centre. Sanctus 1 seeks to push at the boundaries; exploring God and spirituality within the city, in contemporary film and art, and within each other.
L'Arche
L'Arche is a family of 130 communities in 30 countries. In L'Arche Communities men and women with learning disabilities aged 18 and over live and work together with their Assistants.
Hold This Space
Hold this Space is an alternative worship project based in Melbourne, Australia, exploring how they can offer moments of grace among those who do not easily find their home in the church.
Foundation
Foundation is an emerging church/fresh expression based in Bristol, a Christian community seeking to live out its faith in a healthy relationship with contemporary culture.
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 world now through prayer and action.
Aradhna
Bored of the same old, same old worship music? Then let Aradhna bring you songs of devotion and complete surrender – in a style that will wake up all your senses.
The Deaf Community at Greenbelt
Every year a community of Deaf people gather at Greenbelt. Their first language is British Sign Language. When they come together to worship at Greenbelt, sign language interpreters voice over the Sign Language worship into English, and all are welcome to come and participate, even if you don't know any sign language.
Spontaneous
Around the site / TBC Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday
In unknown places and at surprising times worship will be happening around the Festival village.
Beer n Hymns
Sacred and secular divisions dissolve as voices and pints are raised in raucous praise of our Maker. Come and join Tim, the hymn-master-of-ceremonies and Beer Tent landlord, and Monkey Boy Dave on the ivories, and experience worship as you've never experienced it before.
Ethel’s Tent
Based in a mediaeval church in the City of London which was destroyed by an IRA bomb in 1993, St Ethelburga’s is now a Christian focal point for people who want to explore what reconciliation and peace mean in a divided world.
Iona Community worship in the Northern Lights tent
George MacLeod started it... Kathy Galloway continues it... John Bell is part of it... Wild Geese sometimes do it...
St Gregory of Nyssa
St Gregory's involves the whole community in making the liturgy together, reclaiming the vitality of early Christianity and creating new forms. We sing our services in rich, unaccompanied harmony; dance hymns with the saints and invite all people to share in service and love around Jesus' table.
The Garden
The Garden thinks of itself as an experimental project; an emerging community based in Brighton, Sussex, living obscurely on the fringe of religious life ...
Sanctuary 242
Sanctuary 242 is an intentional Christian community based in and around St Albans, England. We are a group of people who are exploring the boundaries between the rich traditions of the inherited Christian church and the challenges we face living in a modern secular society.
Dream
Dream is a network of seven groups based in the Merseyside area and Bolton. Our focus is on building community that values openness, honesty and freedom in the exploration and pursuit of a spirituality centred onJesus.
Visions
Visions have been doing creative (and mostly multimedia) worship services since 1991, blending the old and the new, the creative and the technological together.
Sanctum
Sanctum is an Anglican fresh expression that was origionally born out of a monthly worship event put on by the members of Greenbelt favourites Fire Fly.
Proost - Unusual Suspects
Unusual Suspects began in 2007 as a project to encourage new unpublished talent and artists to help them publish for the time in a range of media. Proost is a small creative team producing inspiring resources that fuel faith who love encouraging new and younger artists.
Transcendance
Last October members of Visions and York Minster got together to start something new. An ancient-Future Mass, combining the best of what they each had to offer, mixing the old and the new, ancient chant and futuristic ambience, asking for feedback from the public about the direction they were taking as they began this new journey.
Bruce Stanley
Bruce Stanley is a Spirituality Populariser and Life Coach. His workshops will provide an opportunity to put yourself through a life MOT.
nChant
nChant is a young women's community choir founded in 2002 by singer/songwriter Alison Eve and originally based in Bedford.
Safe Space
Safespace – Telford are a small community with a passion for mission and a big vision: for being peace-bringers for people, community, culture and creation.
Sanctuary
Sanctuary is an alternative community who have been worshipping together in Bath for 9 years. Sanctuary are also running messy space this year.
Grace
Grace is a Christian community/network that has been creating participative and interactive worship from our base in Ealing, West London since 1993. It is an authentic offering of worship to God out of who we are.
op/en
An integral part of life at Christ Church Gipsy Hill, an Anglican parish in South London, op/en is playful, creative, multisensory and subversively formal.
The Reign
Formed in 2002, Hull worship band theREIGN have developed a strong ministry, particularly amongst young people, with their blend of original material, popular praise & worship songs and well-known secular covers.
Wild Goose and Worship Works
We've been coming to Greenbelt for ages - forming a new group to work with each time. This year we have one Greenbelt virgin with us and a returner who's ventured back after many years! Wild Goose (aka John L. Bell and Graham Maule) are well known for their worship resources and songs.
Church on the Corner
Church on the Corner is a new Anglican church in Islington. It is a fresh expression of church, a young community that provides a spiritual home within the vibrant and yet transitory world of central London.
St Gregory's Music Group with CAFOD
St Gregory's Music Group has existed for over 25 years, and now comprises of some 40 people, some young and some not so young, and many in between!
Franciscans
Friars, sisters and friends, we're a community on the camping field. The Brothers and Sisters (you can tell us by our brown habits) come together from the houses where we live, pray, work and eat with other members of our communities.
Ambient Wonder
Ambient Wonder is an alternative worship community within the Norwich Christian Meditation Centre. Their definition of meditation is 'the simple enjoyment of truth', (Thomas Aquinas). They are a Christ-centred community and their aim is to develop their spirituality within a contemporary context.
OuterSpace
OuterSpace is a group of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered) Christians, and their family and friends, at the annual Greenbelt Festival. It is committed to the Church and to helping everyone find their way in the Church, no matter what their background.
Godly Play
Godly Play was introduced into the UK in 2000 and is now used widely as an approach to children's Christian nurture.
Andrew Walker
Andrew Walker is an Anglican priest and director of the London Centre for Spirituality. He is a Psychosynthesis counsellor and supervisor and author of Journey into Joy (St Paul's) and Spirituality in the City (SPCK).
Soul Space
Soul Space is a monthly alternative service led by Dave Tomlinson and members of St Lukes, Holloway in North London.
Messy Space
Like a huge version of your living room over the summer holidays, the Messy Space is the place for the whole family to hang out and do stuff.
Beyond
Beyond is a new initiative based in Brighton & Hove which aims to explore Christian spirituality through creativity.
The New Place
The New Place is a Methodist-owned and run community centre in the inner-city of Bristol, concerned with a holistic approach to being community.
Church of England Liturgical Commission
The Liturgical Commission loves to worship! It is through encountering God within worship that we are formed (and transformed) as his people. Specifically, they exist to serve the Church of England through the publishing of creative liturgical resources and through training to help the Church offer God the best worship we can.
Blessed
Blessed has been shuffling around the back of the Church of England since 2003, causing nuisance and upsetting the calm quiet of evensong. Coming from a distinctly anglocatholic heritage from urban Portsmouth, its mission is to seek the sacramental in all of creation, and to embrace the sacramental life in wildly, rabidly inclusive ways.
GothGB
After a few years' break the original GothGB team is back to lead the 1662 communion.
Divine Space
Divine Space started as a meditative, low-tech alternative worship event in Bedford and has now become a regular feature of the Contemplative Venue at Greenbelt.
Feig
We are a rag-tag group of fellow travellers, trying to work out what it means to be following Jesus Christ in 2008 in Gloucester. God has called us together to look out for and love each other. We’re learning all the time and enjoying the journey.
Quakers
Cheltenham Quaker Meeting is part of the Religious Society of Friends in Britain. Quakers believe that there is something of God in every person; that God will speak to us if we wait in stillness; that experience of the divine is not dependent on external rituals or symbols; and that spirituality is about the whole of life. From these basic beliefs flow our testimonies (ways of living) such as peace and simplicity.
YoYo
York Schools and Youth Trust (YoYo) is a youth and schools work charity working to present the good news about Jesus in a way that is interesting and relevant to young people and children.
Veronica Zundel
Veronica is the author of Crying for the Light - Bible readings and reflections for living with depression. She is also founder/host of the internet forum 'Waving, not Drowning', a private board of ship-of-fools.com, which provides a sharing space for Christians with a variety of mental health difficulties. She has suffered from recurrent depression for 36 years.
