West-Midlands Forest Church and friends
West-Midlands Forest Church was formed in 2015 and has acted as an outdoor home for people in and around Birmingham. It is welcoming friends from other Forest Church groups to be part of our offering...
Sally Mann
Sally Mann has a PhD in Philosophy and Theology and lectures in Sociology. She is a minister at Bonny Downs Baptist Church where she is the 4th of 5 generations of her family to stay put and serve...
Dave Walker
Dave Walker is a freelance cartoonist and campaigner for active travel; a long time contributor of fine art for both the Church Times and our very own Festival Guide.
Wesley Wroe
Wesley Wroe is a life-long Greenbelter and civil engineer. His work focuses on the design and delivery of infrastructure for new housing developments and in particular the opportunities that exist...
Inge Tong
Inge Tong graduated from Canterbury School of Art in 1986 with a B.A. Hons Fine Art degree and then from Trent University in 1997 with an M.A. Fine Art. Inge was part of ‘CAN' Artists Studio...
Hunt Priest
In early 2016, Hunt Priest was a fortunate participant in a psilocybin study involving religious professionals. His encounters with psilocybin opened him to the healing and consciousness-raising...
Grace Pengelly
Grace Pengelly is a writer and literary editor working in the publishing industry. Her own writing considers what it means to live in a 'world in transition' and can be found on her Substack, The...
Homecoming String Band
Imagine the best high-energy folk music from North America, blended with Celtic spirit and a good dash of Scottish tunes and songs. That dream became a reality in 2008, and since then The Homecoming...
Azariah France-Williams
Revd Azariah France-Williams is an Anglican priest based at Ascension Church Hulme in Manchester. He is the author of Ghost Ship: Institutional Racism and the Church of England (SCM Press). You may...
Luke Larner
A bricklayer for 10 years, Luke the cut his teeth as lay pioneer minister in Luton serving communities affected by homelessness, violence and addiction. Luke is part-time priest-in-charge of the...
Alice Robinson
Alice V Robinson is a co-founder of British Pasture Leather and the author of Field, Fork, Fashion, a book that chronicles the making of her 2019 design collection “Bullock 374”. Her work...
Vanessa Kisuule
Vanessa Kisuule is a writer, performer and facilitator based in Bristol. She has won over ten slam titles and performed nationally and internationally. She has been featured on BBC iPlayer, Radio 1,...
Vanessa Nakate
Vanessa Nakate is a climate justice activist based in Uganda, the UNICEF global goodwill ambassador and author of A Bigger Picture. Vanessa was inspired by Greta Thunberg to start her own climate...
Ben Silvey
Trustee Ben has been a salesman in Tandy (if you're old enough to remember), a sound engineer, a youth worker, a YMCA-er and now by some strange turn of events finds himself as the Chief Operating...
Iona Community
The Iona Community is a dispersed Christian ecumenical community which works for peace and social justice, rebuilding of community and the renewal of worship. As well as singing music from the...