Tickets on sale for Bury’s annual sporting ‘Oscars’

Celebrate Bury’s sporting heroes and heroines by buying a ticket for the Bury 2014 Sports Awards.

The big night is on Friday 19 September at Radcliffe Civic Suite. Tickets will include a three-course meal, entertainment, plus a guest speaker.

This year’s event is being supported by I Will If You Will (IWIYW), which is a national pilot running in Bury which aims to encourage more women and girls to get more active. There will be a special IWIYW award for the female who has made a special effort to get active in 2014 through the programme. I Will if You Will is funded by the National Lottery through Sport England and delivered by Bury Council.

The awards are organised by Bury Sport and Physical Activity Service and Radcliffe and Bury South Sports Forum.

There are awards in the following categories:
 

• Volunteer of the year
• Coach of the year
• Sports achiever of the year
• Disabled sports achiever
• Club of the year
• Unsung hero of the year
• Changing lifestyle recognition award
• IWIYW active female of the year
• Primary school special recognition award
• Secondary school special recognition award

To buy a ticket for the awards night, email sports.development@bury.gov.uk

ENDS

Press release issued: 26 August 2014.