10. Meet the world’s greatest socio-political-comedy oud player. Cairo-born Joseph Tawadros comes to the Canopy on Sunday with the oud – the Arabic ancestor of the lute and modern guitar – and a mischievous mixture of virtuosity and storytelling.

9. Build something enormous in The Dell. Play Shapes is a heap of giant lightweight blocks waiting to become castles, obstacle courses or something nobody has invented yet.

8. Find Recovery Church. The Hope & Anchor’s bar may be dry, but its welcome is anything but. On Friday, Recovery Church offers a service for people with experience of addiction, followed on Saturday by a vigil of hope and remembrance.

7. Do anything at Sambambo’s Open Mic. Sing a song. Recite a poem. Perform a limbo dance. Sambambo’s Saturday open mic in the Village Hall welcomes almost anything – just register when you arrive and try not to follow the limbo dancer.

6. Drop into the half-pipe. South West Skate Ramps are bringing a pop-up skate ramp to the Glade for the whole weekend, with a helpful crew and boards to borrow.

5. Enter the Games Emporium. Across Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Fiery Jacks will fill The Margins with bar skittles, quoits, ancient strategy games and giant challenges from around the world.

4. Make strange electronic noises. Friday & Saturday evenings see Robojam take over The Studio for electronic-music workshops, meet-ups and scratch performances. Bring a synth, drum machine or groovebox if you have one.

3. Find the elephant in the room. One hundred, actually. Handmade wooden elephants hiding all over the festival, waiting for you to find them, take them home and tell us where they end up.

2. Build a bug hotel. On Sunday, join the local Wildlife Trust to build a refuge for insects. A small act of resistance – and a living legacy we’ll leave behind at Boughton.

1. A circle of ceramic mushrooms. At the heart of The Orchard, Proost’s circle of raku-fired mushrooms celebrates the strange, invisible networks connecting the soil beneath us.

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Just one month today people! If you’re coming by train like Ruby here, don’t forget your lift to the festival is on us. We’ll see you at the station.

Welcome to The Woods! Let Christine give you the guided tour of our Rebel Rouser and Dengine venues.

9. We have been awarded the gold level of Attitude is Everything’s Live Events Access Charter for 2024-2026. It shows our commitment to improving the experience for our disabled audiences, artists and team.

8. We trialled some new wheelchair paths last year (ones without holes) and the feedback we had was so good we’re keeping them. Unusually for any festival, we actually put trackways down on the entire walkway from reception to festival village.

7. We provide a quiet, calm space right in the middle of the festival for anyone needing to turn the volume down a bit. It’s called The Haven, and there’s even a sensory deprivation tent for when you need to get away from it all.

6. We’ve also got the gold standard for accessible toileting in the shape of our trailer toilets, designed specifically for when wheelchair access and/or baby change facilities are needed.

5. Our Access team now has dedicated buggies for get-in and get-out to support them (and you) better.

4. We have a team of professionally-trained interpreters at shows and talks (provided by Signs of God), along with hearing loops available at all our major venues.

3. When you arrive our team of Access volunteers is there, along with taxi-buggies, to help you get your stuff to the campsite from your vehicles.

2. We make sure that the area closest to the Festival Village entrance is for disabled campers. We also have a small Campsite Team for Access campers who might need help.

1. If you contact us in advance (now, basically), we have a dedicated Access team of volunteers who can help you plan your festival weekend. Go to the Access pages on our website for contact details and get in touch so that you can have peace of mind when you get here.

Ria Lina is headlining our after-hours comedy club. You probably know her from shows like QI, where Ria takes her scalpel-sharp wit to politics, race, feminism, identity and our collective stupidity. So come for the jokes. Stay for the peer-reviewed demolition of everything that doesn’t make sense.

Are we already deeply excited that Arrested Development are headlining this year? Yes. Has getting our own message from hip-hop legend Speech only deepened that excitement? ALSO YES.

9. Rebel rousing glitter balls. Boughton has seen brand new venues become instant festival favourites. Like the Rebel Rouser, our lo-fi troublemakers in the woods, and the Hot House, our venue devoted to people and planet (and a banging dance club by night).

8. Corinne Bailey Rae in 2024. We really were spoiled in 2024 as Corinne headlined with her critically-acclaimed, Mercury Prize-nominated album Black Rainbows. One of the most breathtaking headline sets we've ever hosted.

7. Bob Vylan in 2024. Electric, uncompromising, beautiful. Before Bob Vylan hit Glastonbury they hit Greenbelt. We moshed, we raved, we listened to what they had to say. Raw, loud and unforgettable.

6. Our 50th birthday. In 2023 we celebrated half a century of glorious, awkward, hopeful, creative troublemaking. We celebrated the only way we know how - by gathering together in a field for the weekend.

5. Our Amal programme in 2017. Amal saw the beginning of several years of wonderful Muslim artistry weaving its way into the heart of our festival. Unexpected from a Christian festival? Perhaps. But when has Greenbelt ever done what was expected?