Use your vote – which community projects should get funding?

Residents are invited to a series of events where they are asked to vote for their favourite community projects.

A large number of local organisations are hoping to win up to £1,000 of funding from Bury Council for projects that contribute to the health and wellbeing of their communities.

Six meetings (called The Pitch) are being held this month, one in each township area, where applicants will present a three-minute pitch about their project. Visitors will be asked to mark five projects on the ballot paper, and the votes are then counted and results announced on the day.

The meetings are:

• Bury East: Saturday 4 November, The Metro Centre (Pentecostal Church, Parkhills Road) at 11am
• Whitefield and Unsworth: Sunday 5 November, Garrick Theatre (Bank Street, Whitefield) at 12.30pm
• Radcliffe: Saturday 11 November, Radcliffe United Reformed Church at 11am
• Bury West: Saturday 18 November, Woodbank Cricket Club at 11am
• Prestwich: Sunday 19 November, Maccabi Centre at 12.30pm
• Ramsbottom, Tottington, North Manor: Saturday 25 November, Holcombe Brook Tennis Club at 12.30pm

Councillor Tamoor Tariq, cabinet member for communities and safer neighbourhoods, said: “Previous Pitch events have proved hugely popular, with hundreds of people turning up to cast their vote for their favourite community projects. I urge everyone to come along to their local event and help choose which projects will best benefit their own neighbourhoods.”

For more details about all the groups who hope to win your vote, go to www.theburydirectory.co.uk/thepitch

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Press release issued: 30 October 2017.