Music in the park, hands-on workshops and room for a climate conversation. Envirolution’s events have brought Manchester communities together to learn, share skills and make things happen.
Explore the festival story, past gatherings and ways to help shape what comes next.
There are no confirmed upcoming event dates listed here. You can still try the climate games, offer feedback or register an interest in helping with future events.
The items below distinguish ongoing activity from provisional plans. They are not bookings, scheduled sessions or confirmed volunteer shifts.
The idea is to bring volunteers together to share skills and help shape the next Envirolution event plan.
No session date or meeting place is confirmed here. Register your interest and ask the team about the next step.
Register your interestTry the interactive climate games on phones and tablets, or offer feedback on how they could work on public event screens.
Explore forests, energy, recycling and more at your own pace. No facilitated testing session is advertised here.
Play and test the gamesHelp rebuild the free community festival, drawing on its history of music, talks, stalls and hands-on activities.
Bring an idea, offer practical help or explore co-operative membership. A future programme is not yet confirmed.
Explore co-op membership
A festival can be a meeting place for environmental ideas, as well as a day of music, food and making things together.
Envirolution’s free, inclusive festivals have welcomed people of different ages, backgrounds, circumstances and cultures. The festival story began in Manchester in 2010, with community participation at its heart.
Past programmes have brought together interactive workshops, inclusive talks, world music, solar-powered stages, wellbeing activities, children’s games, market stalls, community food and local projects.
Working alongside Platt Fields Market Garden also connected visitors with food growing, permaculture and practical examples of community-led environmental change.
This is a small window into the archive. The Gallery is the place to browse the full festival and community collections.
Explore the GalleryA return to the park and a citywide climate conversation. These are historical gatherings, not upcoming dates.
Festival return
After the disruption of the pandemic, Envirolution Festival returned to Platt Fields Park.
Workshops, talks, music, activities and food brought Manchester’s communities together again around practical climate action. The festival’s links with Platt Fields Market Garden connected that gathering with growing and permaculture.
The archived festival highlights recall solar stages, local food and community activity. They describe the 2023 return; their invitation to a future festival should not be read as a new announcement.
Community assembly
Envirolution coordinated Manchester’s first community assembly on climate change in 2021.
People from across the city came together to learn about food and agriculture, transport, fashion and retail, buildings and energy, then work on solutions relevant to Manchester.
Participants put forward issues for Manchester City Council, businesses and national government. These were presented as a mandate to City Council representatives at the final event.
Explore the assembly’s history and contextThe festival has been made by people bringing different things to the same space: a stall, a song, a workshop, a conversation or time to help.
Previous application routes covered stalls and vendors, music, talks, workshops and volunteering. These categories preserve how people have taken part, not a currently open application programme.
Ask about future festival participationA festival takes more than a programme. Planning, welcoming people, making a space work and packing it all away are part of the story too.
Envirolution’s volunteer material describes these kinds of contribution. They are examples of involvement, not currently advertised vacancies or guaranteed roles.
Event planning, logistics, volunteer coordination and administration help connect ideas with the practical work needed to deliver them.
Decor, stewarding, setup and pack-down help turn a plan into somewhere people can gather, learn and enjoy being together.
Workshops, climate games, writing and communications offer different ways to contribute knowledge and creativity.
Explore what people have created together, or tell us what you would like to contribute next.
The Gallery holds the photographs; History connects the festivals, assemblies and community projects. News is the place for published stories and updates.
For future participation, start with a conversation. Confirm dates and arrangements with the team rather than relying on a historical invitation.