Cliff Festival - What to Expect

About Cliff Festival

Cliff Festival is full of worship, teaching and activities for all ages. We also have livestreams and online content for those who cannot join us on the Cliff College site.

The centre of Cliff Festival is our Hope Stage, which will host morning Bible studies and evening celebration services each day. Expect worship, teaching, prayer, testimony and encounters with the Holy Spirit! This venue will also host our early morning all-age worship and performances through the day and into the evening.

Afternoons at Cliff Festival offer spaces for learning with our various seminars and workshops; or you could enjoy some performances at our Orchard Stage; or burn off some energy at our active afternoon sessions. Other venues including The Market Hub, The Yurt and Hope & Anchor will be open throughout the day for you to pop in and see what's going on. 

And don't forget our age-specific venues for children, youth and young adults, which offer sessions and activities at different times of the day. More information about these venues is available via the link below.

About our theme

Our theme for Cliff Festival 2026 is Our Story, Our Song.

How do the stories that we tell and the songs we sing shape us as Christians and as the church? What is the story God is calling us to tell in this time and this place? What are the songs burning in our hearts as we face the challenges and opportunities of being a Christian in today’s world?

As God’s people, we are called to bear witness to God’s story of joyful news for all, and to sing this news out in every situation with all our heart, soul, mind and strength. Join us at Cliff Festival 2026 (22-25 May) for a weekend of story and song, where we can encounter the living God in Jesus-focused, hope-filled worship and be inspired and equipped to live out our testimonies as ambassadors of God’s joyful news!

Festival partners

Cliff Festival’s partners are the Methodist Church and All We Can.

All We Can is an international development and relief organisation, rooted in Christianity and working together to see every person’s potential fulfilled. Focussed on serving the world’s most marginalised communities, All We Can works through partnership alongside our global neighbours to see everyone become all that they can be – and you can be a part of this pioneering movement for change.

The Methodist Church has a calling to respond to the gospel of God’s love in Christ and to live out its discipleship in worship and mission. It does this through worship, learning and caring, service and evangelism. The Methodist Church is committed to being a growing, evangelistic, inclusive, justice-seeking Church – so that new people become disciples of Jesus Christ, faith deepens for everyone, and diverse communities and churches experience transformation.