2023 Lineup
Bringing the magic
We're making a few changes to our site layout for the 50th which we think you'll love. This won't mean much if you've never been to Greenbelt at Boughton House before, of course (you're very welcome...
Get Involved
Greenbelt is made by many hands, and there are countless ways to be part of it. Whether you want to volunteer at Greenbelt Festival, perform, cater, trade, or exhibit, there's an opportunity for...
Festival Info
Some of us have been coming here our whole lives. Some of us are back after a break, and some are brand new to the party. Whether it's your first time, or your 15th, here's all the Greenbelt...
All Talks 2022
The complete set of all the talks recorded at Greenbelt 2022.
Rebugging the Planet
An introduction to the intelligent insects, marvellous mini-beasts and inspirational invertebrates that bring life to our planet. Discover how we can ‘rebug' our attitudes and embrace these...
Speaker(s): Vicki HirdRichard Dawkins, In Conversation
Richard Dawkins' work on evolutionary biology saw him voted the world's top thinker in Prospect magazine's poll in 2013. He is world-renowned for a string of best-selling books, spanning from...
Speaker(s): Richard Dawkins, Giles FraserPrison is not the Solution; It’s the Problem
We have a justice system based on two-thousand-year-old principles of proportional revenge. It hasn't worked and it's not fair. It is time to abolish prisons and develop a new system of...
Speaker(s): Frances CrookScience And Spirituality: How Do We Respond To Experiences Of Awe?
Scientists feel awe at the vastness of intergalactic space, the complexity of living things, or when data fit together and make sense in an unexpected way. But how do they process these...
Speaker(s): FaradayThe Soul Of Climate Activism
Opening by reading her 'Letter to the Earth', a confessional Caroline Lucas MP chats with Pádraig Ó Tuama about the inspirations that have sustained her decades-long public life in green politics...
Speaker(s): Caroline Lucas, Pádraig Ó TuamaCommunion: …And Now, the Weather…
Every day on the news there are stories of doom and destruction; wars and rumours of wars; poverty, child abuse, corruption … and then a smiley soul slides on to tell us what the weather will be...
Speaker(s): Azariah France Williams, Pip Herbert, Electric Cabaret, Peter Graystone, Christian Aid…and now, the weather…
For our 2022 festival communion, we met to express the planet's fear and distress, to give words to creation's grief, and to ask for God's mercy. It was a service about climate care and climate...
DIY Rolling Activities
Over the weekend we will have simple crafts to the more complex, quick and easy to those that take that little bit longer. Sock Monkeys Have you missed making your yearly sock monkey?? Never fear,...
To bring or not to bring? That is the question.
When we first moved to Boughton and away from Cheltenham Racecourse back in 2014, our festival theme was ‘Travelling Light'. We wanted festivalgoers to think carefully about what they really...
Vicki Hird
Vicki Hird MSc FRES is Head of the Sustainable Farming Campaign for Sustain: The Alliance for Better Food and Farming (over 100 non-profit organisations), is a published author and she also runs an...