Greenbelt Festival
Key takeaways
- Greenbelt is most likely to fit a project that combines arts, faith and justice and is inspired by faith, since that is the stated focus of its grants.
- Its grants are described as small and medium-size, but the annual report gives no amount or range, so a modest request is the safest starting point.
- No application process is published, so the sensible first step is to use the contact shown on its website to ask whether a project fits before writing a full application.
- No timing or deadlines are given, and nothing published says how competitive its grants are.
- No exclusions are set out, so no group should be ruled out on the information given here, but the register lists its area of operation as England and Wales.
Overview
Greenbelt Festival is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 289372).
Greenbelt Festival is an independent Christian charity that began long ago as a gathering in a field. It holds an annual festival celebrating arts, faith and justice, aiming to create spaces where art, faith and justice meet. Through Trust Greenbelt, it makes small and medium-size grants to faith-inspired initiatives that liberate creativity in the face of injustice. Alongside these, it runs fund-raising for Christian Aid's relief and restoration projects in Gaza and for climate-related projects, with half of collections at the Sunday communion service going to the first.
What they fund
Priority Areas
Greenbelt makes small and medium-size grants to initiatives inspired by faith that liberate creativity in the face of injustice. Through Trust Greenbelt, it gives grants to quirky, entrepreneurial, risky community projects combining arts, faith and justice. Its wider charitable purposes include advancing the Christian faith, helping other charitable bodies with the relief of poverty and sickness, promoting excellence in the arts, and raising awareness of injustice and human-rights abuses. It describes this grant-making as work beyond the festival, alongside its campaigning activity.
Themes
- Arts, faith and justice
How to apply
No application process is published in the charity's annual report, its register entry or its website. The contact shown is for getting in touch.
Where they fund
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Five years of accounts
| Financial year | Income | Expenditure | Grants paid | Accounts document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| year to 31 December 2021 | £856,660 | £729,542 | — | Accounts for year to 31 December 2021 |
| year to 31 December 2022 | £2,044,597 | £2,114,721 | £33,598 | Accounts for year to 31 December 2022 |
| year to 31 December 2023 | £2,433,710 | £2,391,556 | — | Accounts for year to 31 December 2023 |
| year to 31 December 2024 | £2,492,446 | £2,552,889 | — | Accounts for year to 31 December 2024 |
| year to 31 December 2025 | £2,496,227 | £2,507,847 | — | Accounts for year to 31 December 2025 |
- Grants paid, year to 31 December 2022: grants to institutions, as reported on the charity register (Part B).
— No grants figure for those years.
Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.
Sources
Registers and filings
Other sources
- greenbelt.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Trustee-Recruitment-Pack-2021_final.pdf · read on 31 October 2026
- greenbelt.org.uk · read on 31 October 2026
- greenbelt.org.uk/info · read on 30 October 2026
This profile draws on the funder’s own website as well as its filed accounts.
Sources last checked on 31 October 2026.
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Contact
- 0207 329 0038source
- 01536 676 011source
- gbinfo@greenbelt.org.uksource
- Greenbelt Festivals, The Nest, Church House, 86 Tavistock Place, London, WC1H 9RTsource
- greenbelt.org.uk
Applying to Greenbelt Festival?
Hinchilla drafts your answers around this funder's priorities, using your organisation's own documents.
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Contact
- 0207 329 0038source
- 01536 676 011source
- gbinfo@greenbelt.org.uksource
- Greenbelt Festivals, The Nest, Church House, 86 Tavistock Place, London, WC1H 9RTsource
- greenbelt.org.uk