It’s that time of year when we can share which wonderful organisations we’re partnering with for our final festival at Boughton House. We’re grateful to each and every one of our partners for their wisdom and creativity and the way in which their work brings such richness and depth into the fabric of our festival.
MAIN PARTNER
Christian Aid
No Fly Zone
Once again present with us in our No Fly Zone hybrid venue at the heart of the festival village, Christian Aid will be inviting us to take the time to listen to the world and make our responses. Reminding us that charity really doesn’t begin at home, they continue to be our main festival partner – helping us to better understand how, as individuals and as the church, we can respond to the needs of our global family and our common home.
VENUE PARTNERS
CCLA
The Pagoda
Helping us to programme the most ambitious and thought-provoking Ideas programme we can, CCLA are backing us again to produce the Pagoda programme and venue – a space that is always packed out across the weekend showcasing the most inspiring thinking, writing and doing around. Just as CCLA are committed to good finance, so we are committed to showcasing good thinking.
Pickwell Foundation
Hot House
This year, the team from Pickwell are dialling up the refugee and migration side of their work – alongside their commitment to climate activism. Most especially, they will be helping us understand the growing connections between the twin tracks of their work – people and planet. With a dizzying array of talks and workshops by day, the Hot House moves through mid-evening comedy sets this year into its after-hours DJs.
The Methodists
The Hope & Anchor
Our friends at the Methodists lean into their heritage and present day priorities to host the alcohol-free conversation space that is the Hope & Anchor. With great Secret Special guests,
gritty conversations and providing space for new ways of being church to share experiences and practice, the Hope & Anchor provides the perfect inclusive setting for all those of good faith to be and get real.
Trussell and the URC
The Table
Collaborating again on the Table venue, Trussell and the URC bring you great value daily cafe food coupled with honest grassroots table-top conversations hosted by a team including people with lived experience of poverty – this is about your communities, your churches, and what living a life of faith committed to social justice might look like in Britain today.
The Iona Community
Wild Goose
This year we’ve made the Wild Goose venue bigger, after seeing it bursting at the seams for most of last year. Situated in the Orchard, expect a rolling programme reflecting the Iona Community’s common concerns, and its faith-inspired commitment to community, peace, and justice.
PROGRAMME PARTNERS
USPG
Bringing us the actor and opera singer Michael Brathwaite, with his Ancestors show about reparations on the No Fly Zone, a session of indigenous liturgy in the Shelter, and a festival closing session on the institutional church’s response to Christian Nationalism in the Pagoda.
Embrace
Focussing on the difficult art and practice of reconciliation – with the help of Coventry Cathedral – Embrace will host three sessions across the festival which will first outline, then workshop, and finally embody in worship, the peace-making we are called to in these contested times.
Christian Connection
Back with their ever-popular singles events in the Jesus Arms, one in collaboration with OUT@Greenbelt.