A Takeaway for your heart and mind
The Greenbelt TakeAway is the new name for our vibrant exhibitors' street market. In the TakeAway you will find a fantastic array of charities and organisations to meet with, learn about and...
Something for everyone : all-age programme
Jem Maynard-Watts (aka Thomas Trilby) takes a quick dip into just a few things on offer for children and families at Greenbelt...
Re-engaging with nature and climate change
A guest blog from our Associate USPG Climate change is not an easy topic to talk about, and when we do talk about it, it tends to provoke passionate reactions. However, we need to engage in these...
URC asks: ‘Are you really welcome?’
A guest blog from Revd Craig Muir of our associate partner, United Reformed Church. ‘All Welcome' say church signs. Yet many will have stories of being ignored, barred, dismissed, dismayed....
What can you expect at the Exchange?
A guest blog from David Alcock, Head of Social Business at Anthony Collins Solicitors. The Exchange is one of three new venues Greenbelt is launching this year. What will you find there, and...
The Red Tent – the programme in store
The Red Tent is an old idea. But it's new at Greenbelt. Whenever we've programmed feminist content at the festival, there has been a huge appetite for it. Overlay that with what faith and its...
Amal – the programme in store
Amal @ Greenbelt is a new venue showcasing Muslim artistry, ideas, conversation and spirituality and curated for us by Chicago-based cultural producer Asad Ali Jafri. Building on our long history...
Citizens UK: workshopping for change
To work for The Common Good, we need to be organised. So, on the Monday of this year's festival, we've asked Citizens UK to lead a day of community organising workshops for us. Here's what you can...
Panels at Greenbelt 2017
Here are some of the panels being hosted at Greenbelt Festival this August. There will be other conversations too – with the co-operative organisations in our Exchange venue, in the Amal venue and...
Can we make poverty history while the poor are always with us?
A guest blog from our church media partner the Church Times Theologian Justin Thacker joins the Greenbelt Ideas programme this year. Here, he speaks to SCM Press editor David Shervington about...
Cash, climate change and the banks
A guest blog by our Partner Christian Aid What are the banks doing with your hard-earned cash? However much money you have in the bank, you can be sure they are investing it somewhere to make...
A humanitarian crisis that needn’t be
A blog on the crisis in Gaza from our Associate, Embrace Stephen Tunstall, Embrace's Programmes and Partnerships Manager for Israel & Palestine, visits Gaza regularly and has been shocked by the...
John Wills
As a child of the 60's, John Wills grew up in the small East Northamptonshire town of Rushden, where he was able to witness the slow decline of the traditional town centre shopping. John was...
Origami with Lisa-Raine Hunt
Lisa-Raine Hunt works in London with faith, race, disability, LGBT and gender focus groups, supporting the development of grass routes community activity that counters extremism in all its forms....
Please bring a body
Greenbelt Festival Communion Service 2017 “Our whole nature, extending from the first to the last, is, so to speak, one image of Him Who is.” Gregory of Nyssa*, On the Making of Man XV :...