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27th April 'In Our Hands' film screening & discussion 7-9.30pm @ Three Minute Theatre, Afflecks Arcade.
 
Looking at the problems of the UK industrial food system and exploring the quiet revolution among small hold farmers to combat this.

Follow this link to register for tickets: places limited - Standard ticket £5.00, Low Income £3.00

2017 was a busy year for our family of enterprises based in Greater Manchester! Veg Box People deliver organic local veg bags to places for people to pick up and Manchester Veg People deliver organic local veg to food outlets.

Discover the impact of our enterprises on local farmers and customers...

Fancy a day out of town getting your hands dirty? Want to learn more about organic food growing? Interested in meeting and supporting people trying to start doing it as a career? 

FarmStarter harvesting pumpkins

....Then join us on a day out with the Land Army! We run regular trips to our two FarmStart sites, on weekdays and weekends. Find a trip that suits you...

Our films

Featuring the farmers, co-op members and volunteers we work with, this film explores our work incubating and supporting projects like FarmStart and Manchester Veg People. Plus find out more about our plans to establish a large farm close to Manchester.
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The farm will practise and research a range of sustainable farming techniques, pioneer new... more
Our Woodbank horticulture hub is home to an innovative social prescribing pilot, which we're running in partnership with Stockport GP's Alvanley Family Practice and the Starting Point Community Learning Partnership.
More than Medicine
Hear what some of the participants in our first pilot think of the programme, which involv... more
Duncan from New Food Entrepreneurs interviews our Helen. “It’s more efficient to grow some crops on a field scale, so we need to skill up a new generation of growers to do that. And we need to value them properly so that they can make a livelihood out of it”
New Food Entrepreneurs Interviewing The Kindling Trust
The New Food Entrepreneurs mission is to encourage entrants into sustainable food producti... more

Latest stories

Land Army Volunteer Spotlight
Carol and Nick hard at work on the snowy Land Army volunteer day
Carol and Nick share their stories about what Land Army volunteering days mean to them. From reliving childhood adventures with nature, to realising the positivity of growing and sharing produce.
Rahel's Intern Insights at Kindling HQ
Rahel wearing the Kindling Trust T-shirt and, her with the team
Multilingual Communication's Student Rahel from Cologne spent four months with us. Making the most of her time in Manchester, from pruning apple tree's to scaling mountains in the peak district.
Veg Out at Woodbank Park
Collection point for a weekly veg bag now open
Stockport’s Woodbank Park now offers even more ways to improve health and wellbeing, as the old council plant nursery springs back into life as a hub for organic gardening and a brand new ‘veg bag’ scheme.

The Kindling Trust is a not for profit social enterprise with charitable aims (Company number: 6136029).
Kindling Trust Ltd - Bridge 5 Mill, 22a Beswick Street, Ancoats, Manchester, M4 7HR