Since announcing that we’ll be leaving Boughton after our one final Greenbelt there this summer, we’ve been scouring the land for a new home for the festival we love.
That search over the last year has been hugely helpful. We’ve seen some fabulous places and learned a lot.
We’ve learned more about exactly what we want. As well as what we don’t.
What’s become increasingly clear is that we’re not simply looking for a place to site a festival. We’re looking for a place where Greenbelt can become more fully itself.
More imaginative. More rooted. More sustainable. More accessible. More open to our existing community, and, importantly, the people who haven’t discovered us quite yet.
Somewhere Greenbelt can be more Greenbelt.
There are some really strong contenders. But we’re not done with the search quite yet.
In our dream world (and yours probably), we’d have landed the destination by now.
But after more than fifty years of making this strange and beautiful thing together, we owe it to you all – Greenbelters past, present and, most importantly, future – to give this our very best shot.
This means that Greenbelt will need to take a breather in 2027 – at least as the full-scale festival event you know and love.
Next year will still hold plenty of opportunities for Greenbelters to be Greenbelters – to gather together or plug into Greenbelt-flavoured goodness. Meanwhile, we’ll continue full-speed ahead with finding our new home for 2028.
Here’s just some of what we’re planning. Not everything here will suit everyone, and there won’t be space for everyone at everything. But we hope there’s something here to keep us all connected as we land our festival site search.
A lo-fi camp next August bank holiday
If you came to one of our post-pandemic Prospect Farm gatherings, you’ll know the sort of thing we have in mind. This will be a community camping event for Greenbelters to get together in the great outdoors, on our favourite weekend of the year. Where we check in with one another, take stock, dance, sing, chat, pray, eat and drink together, before another journey round the sun begins.
An online Lent course unlike any other
Featuring special guests and voices from around the world, and designed so that you can gather around theology and artistry through the season of Lent, whether on your own or with Greenbelt friends. We’ve wanted to make something distinctive and inspirational for this moment in the Christian calendar for a while now, and we’re excited about what we’ll be able to offer.
Adventures to Solas and Graceland Festival
We’ll be at these two kindred festivals in various forms in 2027. Solas in Scotland in June, and Graceland Festival in the Netherlands in August. We’d love to see Greenbelters visit our wider festival family and join us there. There will be discounted tickets available for those looking to fill that festival-shaped hole next summer.
Our recorded talks catalogue will be free to access
We’ll be taking our entire recorded talks archive out from behind its modest paywall, and making this treasure trove – including 2026 and 2025 – completely free to access.
We’ll share much fuller details about our year of Greenbelt goodness at this summer’s festival, both in the printed guide and online after the weekend. A year in which we pause, reflect and recharge – making sure we find the space in which we can be more Greenbelt for years to come. Together.
For now, we want to say thank you.
Thank you for caring enough to keep asking questions. Thank you for sticking with us while we search. Thank you for helping us imagine what Greenbelt will become next.
The next chapter is taking a little longer to write. Like all the very best things though, we promise it will be worth the wait.