Windrush & Carnival
The Festival Communion service at Greenbelt 2018 put the story of Windrush, racial inclusion and justice at its heart. Here you'll find all the words from the service to download and share and use...
Communion
The “thin” moment where each Sunday morning since 1974, everything else at GREENBELT stops. When we gather to worship God and share in the Festival Communion together. Listen, watch and download...
The Tank – Greenbelt’s very own festival cafe
The Tank is run by an energetic, friendly, fun and dedicated team who've been brewing up and making mochas for us at the festival for 15 years or so now. That's a lot of fair trade cups of tea...
Silence is not peace!
A guest blog from our associate USPG The Philippines is rich in mineral deposits, but over 40,000 indigenous people have been forcibly displaced from their ancestral lands and over 1,000 students...
Gŵyl Coda 2018: Gathering Hope
A blog by longterm Greenbelter and former festival trustee, Paul Bennett on the newest member of the Greenbelt Family... The Welsh word “bach” translates literally as “small”. But it also...
Community sponsorship: transforming ourselves and others
A guest blog from Tim Finch of our associate partner Citizens UK. Last November, five people gathered in my front room in Peckham, South East London. Two of them were me and my wife. We met to...
Hope in troubled times
A guest blog from our associate Quakers in Britain Imagine the world you would like to see. Perhaps people are more equal here. Perhaps the Earth is thriving once more. Perhaps oppression and...
Glitter, Gainsborough and Gin
Okay, so our alliteration doesn't quite work (it's all in the soft 'G', don't you know). But you get the idea! This blog is about a few specials on offer at Greenbelt this year, but which come at a...
Is foolishness the wisest thing of all?
A guest blog from our associate Winchester University Theological Department The book of Ecclesiastes talks about what it's like to chase after knowledge only to find that, after all, you still...
Reaching for Mercy
A guest blog from Andy Freeman of our Associate Space to Breathe – about Proost, a long-term friend of Greenbelt and now operating in a new home… One of my big expectations for our work at the...
Experience A Refugee Journey First-Hand
Andy Robertson, aka GeekDad Gamer, returns to Greenbelt once more this summer with a whole heap of ideas and opportunities around digital gaming and exploring faith and meaning through them. Here, he...
You Could Be the Secret Behind our Success…
The good news is that Greenbelt is growing again. Ticket sales are strong and we've had to find space for extra live-in vehicles. But the challenge with this growth is that we need more people to...
The Greenbelt 2018 Food & Shopping Guide
Ben Pugh, who looks after our Caterers and Traders, gives you some top tips for 2018's festival I'm now in my 6th year of looking after Caterers and Traders at Greenbelt (which is also my 28th...
Greenbeltrun – 5k
You know those 5k runs you might do on a Saturday morning in your local park (or other green-ish space)? Well, this year, we're bringing the idea to Greenbelt. But because it isn't officially one of...
We need to talk about displacement
A guest blog from our partner Christian Aid Uprooted. Overlooked. Forced to flee. Ayuba Azagwu lives in Nigeria. Ayuba is a successful farmer and landlord from the village of Goza, he grows onions...