Greenbelt: the family-friendly festival this August Bank Holiday you don’t want to miss!
Want a festival that’s family friendly? Then you need to get yourself to Greenbelt Festival this August. From babes-in-arms to tottering toddlers, tweenagers to young adults, mums, dads, grandparents, and everyone in between! Whatever your family dynamic, Greenbelt promises a fun-filled, jam-packed weekend. Get your ticket now!
27 - 30 August, Boughton House, Northamptonshire
EVERYONE NEEDS A HUG
In fact we need four hugs a day for survival and 12 for growth. Through a fusion of aerial dance, physical theatre and striking visuals HUG from Levantes Dance Theatre invites the audience to rediscover power and connection of this simple act.
LARGING IT BIG BALLOON STYLE
You are in for a treat with Dizzy O’Dare! His high energy, raucous Giant Balloon Show is an absolute blast that’ll leave you in stitches! What’s not to love? Balloons (obv!), banging 80s soundtrack, audience participation and of course, the awesome GIANT balloon!
UNPLUGGED PLAY
Expect energy, entertainment, fire, comedy and all around brilliance! Fiery Jacks’ show will blow your mind as they skillfully combine play, circus games and storytelling to create a space where everyone (whatever your age) can connect, build confidence and experience the joy of trying something new. Guarantee you’ll love them!
FOR BIG KIDS AND ACTUAL KIDS
Play Shapes is the ultimate outdoor soft play where you get to refigure giant cubes into limitless combinations to create sculpture, dens, assault course, playscapes or chill out spaces. In a world where play seems to have taken a back seat to tech, Play Shapes gives you the chance to build, connect and release your inner child.
SING IT LOUD
Festival faves Fischy Music bring their own unique blend of hopeful and fun-filled songs to Greenbelt every year. This all-age sing-along is where rock meets pop, meets folk, meets the football terraces! And if that’s not enough, you can join in with a good old fashioned ceilidh - join the fun as you learn the Gay Gordon, the Virginia Reel and Strip the Willow.
SCIENTISTS ARE SUPERHEROES WITHOUT CAPES; IT’S OFFICIAL
Join Hot Poets at Greenbelt for a fun, wonder-filled adventure, poetry, science and people power. Together discover amazing true stories of people protecting our planet told through poetry and live performance from some of the UK’s best spoken word artists.
THE DENGINE
Don’t miss The Dengine - the festival’s teen venue with a cafe, chill out area, activities during the day and DJ sets and music at night. And check out the super cool zine-making workshop with Art Mouse Promotions.
SKILLS, SPILLS AND MOVES
Try juggling, stilt walking and trick bikes with Circus Kaos, shake your stuff with Sohan Kailey’s immersive Banghera dance show or try belly dancing with Syren Belly Dance. Or check out the skate ramp where South West Skate Ramps are on hand to teach you everything from dropping-in to tic-tacs and Ollies. Or pop over to the games arena where you can join in with daily games of spikeball, rounders, football, target practice, and volleyball.
GET CREATIVE
Head to the Greenbelt’s very own arts and craft venue and join in with the brilliant Make and Create sessions. You can try everything from print-making to shadow puppet-making, natural dye workshops to screen printing, marbling to collage.
DJ-ING, MUSIC & THE BARD
How about unleashing your inner Bard with The Shakespeare Collective, learning to DJ with DJ Jozzy or joining one the music workshops.
ELSEWHERE AT THIS YEAR’S FESTIVAL…
So, who’s headlining? World-class music acts such as Arrested Development and The Proclaimers; phenomenal funk, hip-hop band BCUC and Afro-futuristic-punk collective Fulu Miziki; critically acclaimed theatre from ‘The Light House’; and top-of-its-game comedy from Luisa Omelian, Ria Lina and Reggie Watts are all at this year’s Greenbelt.
And don’t miss the brilliant activists and artists who’ll be creating space for difficult conversations including this year’s Creativity under Trump panel, singer and activist Charlotte Church, Jordan Stephens and Guvna B on toxic masculinity and acting legend Michael Sheen.
SO, HOW DO I GET A TICKET?
Simple. If you’re after a full weekend ticket, click here! And for the just-launched day tickets click here. Day tickets start from £10 for a child, £20 for youth, £35 for a concession, and £60 for an adult.
Post-pandemic Greenbelt introduced a radical and inclusive pay-what-you-can ticketing model where those who can pay – do – and those who can’t – have the opportunity to pay what they can. And what’s even better is Greenbelt is holding its 2026 tickets at 2025 prices.
There’s just three simple price-points for adult tickets: Supported, Standard and Supporter. For Greenbelt 2026 adult weekend tickets will cost just £150 for those who choose the Supported price, £200 for the festival’s Standard ticket, and £250 for the pay-it-forward Supporter ticket. Young adults (age 18 to 25 years) tickets will start at £120, youth (12 - 17 years) from £50, children (5 - 11 years) from £25, and under 5s are free.
You can get planning your festival weekend (or day) by downloading the app for just £5. Alternatively you can pop over to Greenbelt’s website and browse what’s on when for free.