August 2010: Church Urban Fund at Greenbelt Festival
Tim Bissett - Church Urban Fund's CEO - talks about CUF's partnership with Greenbelt and the sessions that will be happening in our sponsored venue.
This year is the fifth year that Church Urban Fund has partnered Greenbelt Festival, the largest Christian arts festival in Europe. Greenbelt offers a unique blend of faith, justice and arts, a fertile ground where ideas about community, living the Gospel and being active in creating change can take shape.
This year, Church Urban Fund is sponsoring the Kitchen, a venue dedicated to talks and workshops on community and social action. In this month's podcast, Tim explains why this is a good fit with CUF's aims, and talks about two special sessions that CUF is running during the Festival.
The Kitchen venue came into being based on a feeling that many great projects, conversations and plans start life as kitchen-table ideas - people congregate to share food and friendship, and find solutions to problems. The Kitchen venue at Greenbelt aims to encapsulate this as a space where people can share their experiences and learn new ways to be community.
Church Urban Fund sessions in the Kitchen...
The future for youth work - Saturday 4pm
Anna Hembury and Pete Ward host an interactive session on the future of Christian youth work. Designed for youth workers, the session is a chance to discuss the highs and lows of youth work and look at examples of effectiveness.
Passionate and knackered! - Sunday 4pm
Community work can be deeply fulfilling, but it can also be draining and hard. This session offers an opportunity for people involved in community and social action to talk about the obstacles and difficulties that arise, and to share expertise and stories about what works.
Church Urban Fund staff will be in the Kitchen throughout the Festival; if you're planning to be at Greenbelt then we would love to hear from you.
