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How The Kindling Trust is Helping Growers Scale Up Helen Woodcock on how the Kindling Trust is helping growers scale up 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”	More than Medicine, our social prescribing pilot scheme More than Medicine - social prescribing at Woodbank 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.
Kindling: A Sustainable Food Revolution Kindling: A Sustainable Food Revolution 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.	Helping a Stockport school go organic Stockport school goes organic - Manchester Headline News In October 2015 Priestnall School in Stockport became the first Greater Manchester secondary school to incorporate fresh, local organic veg into its menus with a pilot project involving us, Cracking Good Food and Manchester Veg People.
Pete Richie from Nourish Scotland on Food Poverty 120670193 Pete Richie of the fantastic Nourish Scotland talking at our Making Food Fair event about food poverty as a government responsibility and in the context of a wider 'broken' food system.	Making Food Fair 120635523 Our food system is perpetuating poverty for UK farmers as they struggle to make a living, whilst at the opposite end of the food chain, many families are unable to afford healthy food.
Forgotten Fields Co-operatives Movie 88870223 In 19th Century Manchester food prices were high and quality unregulated. A group of Rochdale weavers took matters into their own hands and a Greater M’cr institution was born...the first Co-operative shop.	Oxford Real Farming Conference 101790496 The Oxford Real Farming Conference was set up in 2010 to bring together practising, mud-on-the-boots farmers with scientists and economists, activists and lawyers, and everyone else with a serious interest in food and agriculture.
Growing Livelihoods 97648047 This short film introduces the Growing Livelihoods partnership, creating, testing and promoting new opportunities in food growing, especially for those new to farming.	Manchester Veg People & Glebelands Food on Campus working with Manchester Veg People The University of Manchester is a member of Manchester Veg People, the innovative co-op of buyers and growers Kindling helped establish, and through the co-op now spends about £40,000 a year on local organic veg.