Trussell Trust
The Trussell Trust supports a network of more than 1,200 food bank centres, who give emergency food and support to people in crisis across the UK, where one in seven people face hunger. In the...
Better Together. Our 2018 Partner & Associates
Each year at Greenbelt we remember that we are better together; we remember that if you want to walk a long way, then it's good to make the journey with others; that we are in this for the long...
Big Shift : What’s happened and what’s to come
A guest blog by our partner Christian Aid It's been five months since we were together enjoying the beautiful sunshine and fantastic buzz that graced Greenbelt festival2017. Thank you to all of...
A Gentle Revolution
A guest blog from Ruth Broadway, the Bristol-based illustrator whose prints we've used in the visuals for our Acts of the Imagination theme artwork this year. Last year I was invited to be...
On winning the AIF ‘Act of Independence’ award
This is what we said at the AIF awards do in Cardiff on Monday 30 October 2017 ... "We're honoured to receive this award. It's a big deal for us to be noticed. Especially when our internal...
The eight weirdest things in Greenbelt storage
It takes a lot of stuff to fill the Greenbelt site and make it work as it should. And once the festival's over, all that stuff has to go somewhere. Thankfully, our friends at Safestore gave us a...
T-shirt replacements
When we heard that some of our lovely Greenbelt '17 t-shirts lost their print in the wash, we cried. But then we picked up the phone, told the t-shirt printer, and they offered to print new t-shirts...
Hot House: Religion leads to violence. It always has and always will
Since 9/11, and stretching back centuries before, the worst atrocities committed against humanity have been motivated by religious conviction and difference. And things don't seem to be getting...
Speaker(s): Salma Yaqoob, Clive Stafford Smith, Sahar Vardi, Origami with Lisa-Raine HuntCathedrals and Commerce : The challenge facing large churches
Large churches are getting involved in enterprise activity to stay open – but didn't Jesus turn over the tables of the money changers? How can we find the right way through commerce and...
Speaker(s): Alison Inglis-Jones, Cliff MillsThe Word of Reprieve
The Common Good? The death penalty, torture, rendition, detention without trial and assassination: Donald Trump's solutions to the world's problems. Awarded an OBE for "humanitarian services", Clive...
Speaker(s): Clive Stafford SmithA Spirituality for The Common Good
What kind of spiritual practice helps us work for The Common Good? How does our prayer guide us to discern how to use our gifts and sustain our engagement? Where might we find joy in the midst of...
Speaker(s): Kate MonkhouseGentle Protest: how gentleness can be a powerful tool in activism.
Sarah Corbett will share ways that we upturn our idea of power: encouraging those in power, listening to those we disagree with, intriguing not preaching, being critical not aggressive. Gentleness...
Speaker(s): Sarah CorbettA spoonful of craft helps the activism go down
If we want our world to be beautiful, kind and just then shouldn't our activism be too? Sarah Corbett will explain how craft can help us make our world more beautiful, kind and just, one stitch at...
Speaker(s): Sarah CorbettPlease 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...
Living Wage Employer
We are pleased to announce that we are now accredited as a Living Wage employer. The Living Wage commitment will see everyone working at Greenbelt, regardless of whether they are direct employees or...