Chris Walsh Email & Phone Number

Manchester, England, Gb

Bridge 5 Mill, 22A Beswick Street, Ancoats, Manchester, M4 7Hr

Kindling Community Land Initiative Ltd (KCLI) has been established as a Society for the Benefit of the Community. With thirty local members it will become the legal entity that raises funds, purchases and holds in trust a large farm, as part of the Kindling Trust's sustainable food strategy.KCLI has been established to nurture ownership by thousands of people who will become members, invest in (via Community Shares) and ultimately own the farm in the most democratic and co-operative way possible.We plan to launch a community shares campaign in 2018 to attract member and raise funds to buy the farm.

Bridge 5 Mill, 22A Beswick Street, Ancoats, M4 7Hr

Bridge 5 Mill Ltd is a company with charitable aims owned by the charity: Fairfield Environment Trust.Its purpose is to maintain, run and develop an old silk mill in East Manchester as a Centre for Sustainable Living, offering conference and meeting space, offices and workshop space, support and mentoring to all those who are striving to make Greater Manchester a greener, healthier and more equitable city.

Bridge 5 Mill, 22A Beswick Street, Manchester, M4 7Hr

Veg Box People is a workers co-op running an organic veg box scheme at the University of Manchester. We have ambitious plans to help increase access to local, affordable organic fruit and veg direct from our local farmers.For more information visit: vegboxpeople.org.uk

Unit 19, 41 Old Birley St, Hulme, Manchester. M15 5Rf

The Kindling Trust is a social enterprise working towards a just and ecologically sustainable society. We work with communities, farmers, practitioners, activists, and policy makers to create and support progressive projects that bring about lasting and genuine change.

Bridge 5 Mill, 22A Beswick Street, Ancoats, M4 7Hr

Fairfield Environmental Trust is a charity working to make Greater Manchester more sustainable.FET does this in two ways: by owning and running a number of pioneering environmental businesses including Fairfield Environmental Services Ltd and Bridge 5 Mill Ltd; and using its resources and expertise to support environmental charities in Greater Manchester.

The Cabin, Adj 22, New Smithfield Market, Whitworth Street East, Manchester, M11

Fairfield Environmental Services was established in 2003 and known as Fairfield Composting - as our initial activity was to turn the waste fruit and veg from New Smithfield Market into compost. Today we carryout a range of other services including the recycling of the wholesale markets other waste streams.Fairfield Environmental Services is owned by the charity: Fairfield Environmental Trust.

22A Beswick Street, Ancoats, Manchester, M4 7Hr.

MERCi (affectionately known as Murky) was an independent charity (established in 1996) and wound down in May 2016. It established Bridge 5 Mill and I was involved originally in establishing it as Manchester's First Centre for Sustainable Living. Despite all the hard work of tenants, staff, volunteers and trustees it struggled to bring in enough income after the government's austerity programme began in 2009. I rejoined the board of Trustees in November 2015 to help turn the Mill around and with financial help from a few sister organisations and the dedication of the staff we began to see improvements in the service we provided and the number of users. In early 2016 after an EGM, the membership agreed that MERCi would merge with Fairfield Environmental Trust - a similar charity which is part of the Fairfield Group of social enterprises. At the end of May 2016 FET took ownership of the Mill and began an investment programme to support the staff (all former MERCi staff became employees of Fairfield), improve the Mill and crucially attract new tenants.The Mill is now run by Bridge 5 Mill limited.

22A Beswick Street, Ancoats, M4 7Hr

An independent charity (established in 1996) working to turn ideas into action for a sustainable future - by this we mean a future that is greener, safer, healthier and equitable.

Physics, Physics

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