
Patrick Gale
Patrick Gale is the author of eighteen novels and many short stories. He is a keen cellist, gardener, beekeeper and patron of the Charles Causley Trust, and the Penzance LitFest, a trustee of the...

Greenbelt Takes A Breather in 2027
Since announcing that we'll be leaving Boughton after our one final Greenbelt there this summer, we've been scouring the land for a new home for the festival we love. That search over the last...

Jo In The Water
Jo in the Water follows a passionate sea swimmer turned reluctant activist, Exmouth-based Jo Bateman, as she takes on one of the UK's biggest water companies in a David-and-Goliath battle to...

Tom Crowther
Thomas Ward Crowther is a British ecologist, focussed on understanding the forces that shape biodiversity at a global scale. He is the Founding Scientific Chair of the BRANCH institute, an...

Handmade Future
The UK premier screening of the award-winning feature documentary, Handmade Future, followed by a Q+A with the director, Kirsten Dickerson, and UK featured slow fashion designer Celia...

With a little help from our friends
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...

2026 Poster

Michael Malay
Michael Malay is a teacher and writer based in Bristol. He spent his early years in Jakarta, Indonesia, before moving to Australia with his family at the age of ten. He is the author of Late Light,...

Maddie Thorp
Maddie Thorp is a singer-songwriter from the South Coast. She started writing her own songs as a child and performing as a teenager, going on to release several EPs including Home Village and A Long...

Matt Green
Matt has been performing stand-up comedy since 2003, and has appeared at venues all across the UK and the world, including gigs in Australia, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Norway, Romania,...

Xray Vez
Xray Vez is a self-described punk-turned-pop girlie, with songs about girls who like horses, boys with bad tattoos, and geezers in vans. Behind the silliness, her music is a vulnerable,...

Yakkie
Yakkie make righteous heavy music for the urgency of this political moment, and they'll make you laugh too. The London-based DIY punk supergroup is fronted by veteran feminist activist Janey...

Yaz Jenkins
Yaz Jenkins is a trained performer, writer and workshop facilitator originally from Oxford, having studied at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. Her spoken word poetry has a strong focus on...

Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs, and Northants
We work locally in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire and we have a big mission - we want to stop nature's decline. It is no secret that nature is in trouble. Wildlife is...

Yoga with Jenny and Atim
Jenny and Atim have taught yoga for many years in the Kettering area. They have offered yoga together at Greenbelt for several years and love to see new and familiar faces while we enjoy moments of...
