At Greenbelt we are always trying to keep the bottom line prophetic, rather than just about profit – making sure ticket prices are as low as possible so that as many people as possible from as wide a variety of backgrounds as possible can access the festival.
We have our discounts for single parents, for students, for church leaders, the unemployed and disabled, but it’s frustrating for us knowing that there are still those who we know would get a huge amount out of Greenbelt who simply can’t afford to come. We scratched our heads at Greenbelt HQ wondering what we could do, and someone had an outrageous plan: why not set the ticket price to zero. Niente. Nada. Zilch?
OK, much as we’d love to, we can’t do that for everyone. But we’re creating an expanded scheme of discounts under the moniker ‘Open Festival’ and bringing 200 completely free tickets to the table for those who need them most.
We’ve tried to make getting hold of them as easy as possible: make one application on behalf of a group of no more than 20 people who haven’t been to Greenbelt before (we’ll be checking their t-shirt and mug collections) and who wouldn’t otherwise be able to come. Perhaps you are a group of asylum seekers or young people, maybe you help out at a group with learning difficulties… You get the idea.
If you’d like to apply, simply write a letter on one side of a piece of A4 outlining who you’d like to come and why, and send it to the follow address by 30th March. It may be that we get more applications than there are free tickets, in which case we’ll do a random ballot. Either way, you’ll be contacted by the end of April and told if you’ve been successful. If you are, you’ll be on your way to Greenbelt for the first time, for nothing. And we’ll be right there to welcome you in. Can’t wait.
Open Festival
Greenbelt Festivals
All Hallows on the Wall
83 London Wall
London
EC2M 5ND
