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Trussell

Trussell 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 last year...

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...

The field formerly known as the 'Caravan and Live-in Vehicles Field' has had a makeover. (Well, a new name.) You'll find that it's been renamed the Campervan Field.  We realise that it can be...

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...

Two degrees of separation

Following the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, when the world committed itself to safeguarding a 'two-degree world' (not allowing global warming to rise by more than two degrees centigrade because...
Speaker(s): Natalie Bennett, Christian Aid, Most Revd Dr Winston Halapua, Mohamed Adow, Jo Musker-Sherwood

Exchange inspiration: How can a business be values led?

Is business incompatible with moral values? How can a commercial business be values-led? With Ed Mayo, Secretary General, Co-operatives UK, David Alcock, Head of Social Business at Anthony Collins...
Speaker(s): Ed Mayo, David Alcock

The Second Curve

90-year-old organisational and management guru Charles Handy discusses the changes ahead for all of us in life, work and everything. Future thinking at its best. Regularly cited as one of the...
Speaker(s): Charles Handy

Exchange ideas: More stories of enterprise for the common good

Communities are taking the lead on food, on keeping children safe, and on using assets for The Common Good. Come and hear how! With Jonny Gordon-Fairleigh, Stir to Action, Daily Bread Co-op, and...
Speaker(s): David Alcock

Black Lives Matter: Christian & Muslim Reflections

A conversation among Muslim and Christian voices reflecting on the Black Lives Matter movement including its historic roots and evolution both in the UK and USA. Ismael Lea South, Saraiya Bah, Eric...
Speaker(s): Ismael Lea South, Saraiya Bah

Ben Pugh looks after the Caterers and Traders for Greenbelt. Read what he's got in store for you and why what our caterers do on site is so important to us. To You. For The Common Good Reflecting on...

A greener festival

Over the last few years we've got rid of allllmost all our single-use plastic (we're still coming for you, cable ties) and managed to halve our festival fuel consumption. Each year we measure our...

A Little Child Will Lead You

Laugh: chuckle, giggle, snigger, hoot, snort, cackle, chortle, guffaw, titter. Our main act of worship sees children leading singing, praying, sharing and joke-telling – reminding us to laugh at...
Speaker(s): Fischy Music, Pop UK, Festival Communion

Too Hot To Handle: Climate Change Knows No Borders

Can we really cooperate to fight the ravages of climate change? And now that the UK faces Brexit, will the good things that the EU has done on climate care be lost? Do NGOs and campaigning...
Speaker(s): Bill McKibben

Forget Me Not

Join three special guests whose lives have each been touched by dementia and who have responded in various ways through theology, writing and action. Share in their experiences, thinking and learning...
Speaker(s): Professor John Swinton, Rebecca de Saintonge, Sally Magnusson

Has Online Dating changed everything?

Online dating is now ever-present in our lives. From Match.com to Tinder, how has it changed the way we form relationships? Are things better or worse? Safer or scarier? How can we understand and use...
Speaker(s): Jackie Elton, Dr David Pullinger, Vicky Walker, Kate Bottley