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...
David Alcock
David Alcock is Head of Social Business at Birmingham law firm Anthony Collins Solicitors, where he works with community organisations, social enterprises, co-operatives, charities and faith groups....
Cliff Mills
Cliff is a solicitor who writes constitutions for co-operative, mutual and member-based organisations. These have included the leading retail co-operatives societies, NHS Foundation Trusts, tenant...
John Atherton
John works for Co-operatives UK in Manchester providing leadership and accountability for its membership and events functions. Cooperatives UK promotes, develops and unites the 7,000 co-ops in the...
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....
Zena Kazeme
Zena Kazeme is a Persian-Iraqi poet who draws on her experiences as a former refugee to create poetry that explores themes of exile, home, war and heritage. Her first published poem was as a result...
Hannah Martin
Hannah Martin is a trained dance and sports leader. A member of our Children's Team, her Zumba sessions are fun, easy to pick up and have repetitive dances so that you'll remember them, too....
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 :...
Rage is useless if vulnerable stay voiceless
A guest blog from Matthew Bolton, Deputy Director of our Associate Citizens UK ... In the aftermath of the Grenfell disaster we need resistance, not rage. Please don't misunderstand me – I'm...
USPG: The world church and ‘The Common Good’
A blog from Gwen Mtambirwa from our Associate, USPG ... As I write this it's just two months until Greenbelt 2017. It's three weeks since the terror attack at London Bridge (a mere 10-minute...
Join the fun with YMCA at Greenbelt
See what our Associate YMCA will be up to at GB17, The Common Good ... As the largest and oldest youth charity in the world, working to support, empower and improve the lives of young people in the...
Saraiya Bah
Saraiya Bah is a London based poet and writer who draws on the traditional West African storytelling style of the griot to wax lyrically about identity, faith, the relationship with self and...
U-Cef
U-Cef, the Moroccan Digitiser blends together Arab and Middle Eastern sounds and beats with urban & traditional fusion. U-cef has a special focus on the fusion of North African Gnawa with modern...
Randa Ghazy
Randa Ghazy was born in Italy to Egyptian parents and studied International Relations, Economics and Political Science at the University of Milan. In 2002, at the age of 15, she wrote her first...
Rumi’s Circle
Rumi's Circle presents poetry, music and whirling events that highlight the wisdom of Mevlana Rumi, the 13th century Sufi Mystic. Rumi's Circle is part of The Threshold Society and the Mevlevi...