Looking for a Living Wage: How to run a Living Wage campaign in your area
The Living Wage campaign started in our very first community alliance in East London in 2001. In this session we share the tried-and-tested organising methods that root this national campaign in...
Speaker(s): Citizens UKA different kind of power: what does power have to do with theology, and why does it matter for community organising?
Power. This hotly-debated, sometimes keenly avoided, concept is central to community organising. We share the secret – and the theological basis – of a power based on relationships, not...
Speaker(s): Citizens UKThe real art of the deal: negotiating for the common good
Want your MP to change their mind on your issue? Looking for a living wage commitment from a local business? Our role-play scenarios will put you in the hot seat, on both sides of the table,...
Speaker(s): Citizens UKWelcoming the stranger: a guide to community sponsorship of refugees
Want to support and welcome refugees coming to the UK? Learn how your congregation can take part in the community sponsorship programme championed by Citizens UK. With Neil Jameson, Citizens UK's...
Speaker(s): Citizens UKWomen in Herstory
Herstory is a project that connects art, activism and education by using famous examples of feminist art to engage people of all genders with women's (often forgotten) history. Join founder, Alice...
Speaker(s): Alice WroeExchange inspiration: What difference does co-operative ownership make?
Does being a co-operative make you more likely to be for The Common Good? Why?Featuring Vivian Woodell, Founder, the Phone Co-op, Pete Westall, Group General Manager For Colleague & Co-operative...
Speaker(s): Pete Westall, Vivian WoodellThe Good of One Is the Good of All
In early Christian teaching, the common good is understood less as the search for a politics of consensus and more as the search for the life of communion. We reflect on the implications of this for...
Speaker(s): Citizens UK, Anna RowlandsScriptural Reasoning Remixed
Engage in a fun and thoughtful conversation around the music and lyrics that move us as spiritual people. Join Rachel Rose Reid, Abdalhamid Evans and Simon Jones as they discuss the songs that move...
Speaker(s): Rachel Rose Reid, Abdalhamid EvansLove, Anger and Lament: the Ingredients of a Common Life Politics
In Scripture and in political life meaningful change begins with a cry. Some cries are born of lament, some of anger, and some of wonder but their expression is vital to fostering a just and loving...
Speaker(s): Citizens UK, Luke BrethertonPlease Bring a Body
The Festival Communion service at Greenbelt 2017 put access and inclusion at its heart. Here you'll find all the words from the service to download and share and use – along with the story and...
The Bank of The Common Good
Our Partner Christian Aid presents…The Bank of The Common Good We're so close to the Festival now, we can almost touch it! We can't wait to welcome you all into our Christian Aid venue...
Festival etiquette: to shower or not to shower?
A guest blog from our sponsor The Church Housing Trust Some festivalgoers cannot bear the thought of not washing for three days and will either have booked a shower or be planning to queue for...
Walking the way into the future
A guest blog from Revd Peter Ball of our sponsor Westminster College These are exciting times full of new opportunities for all of us. Here at Westminster College Cambridge, as we look to further...
A-Level Results
A guest blog from By Emma Temple, MA student at Leeds and SCM General Council Deputy Convenor on behalf of our Associate Student Christian Movement Everyone remembers the feeling of opening their...
G-Books – Your Greenbelt Festival Bookshop
from Our Partner : The Church Times The Church House Bookshop team are looking forward to returning to Greenbelt later this month. We're bringing our pop-up bookshop, G-books, back to the...