Win family ticket for Pirates Adventure with Bury’d Treasure

Children and families have been hunting for ‘Bury’d Treasure’ this summer as part of a new pirate-themed family adventure game happening across Bury.

Launched by Bury Council in partnership with the I Will If You Will (IWIYW) campaign, Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) and 15 primary schools, the initiative aims to get children and families walking or cycling while searching for clues to solve puzzles that may win them a prize.

To join in, participants must register at the Bury’d Treasure website burydtreasure.org.uk and then enter their answers to the puzzles via the website or the Bury’d Treasure app, to be entered into a weekly draw to win a selection of prizes.

Paul Wilcock, local father of two, said: “We had a great afternoon together as a family. The kids had their maps and ran around the park solving the puzzles and playing their own pirate games for fun. As a parent this kind of activity over the summer is exactly what we are after.”

Councillor Trevor Holt, first deputy and cabinet member for health and wellbeing at Bury Council, said of Bury’d Treasure: “We are so pleased with how successful it’s been. It’s been great to hear about and see photos of families using their local park spaces to solve clues, have fun as a family and create memories.”

Participants now have the chance to win a Family ticket for the East Lancashire’s Railway, ‘The Pirates Adventure’ on 18 August. The winning family will get to experience the fun of the steam train along with pirate themed activities.

To enter the competition entrants must be registered with and have taken part in Bury’d Treasure and complete an online survey. T&C’s can be found on www.iwillifyouwill.co.uk/news/2016/08/piratecompetition/ Competition closes midnight on 15 August.

ENDS

Press release issued: 3 August 2016.

Picture:Taking part in the Bury’d Treasure hunt areAndrew Bruce and Paul Wilcock with their children Charlie, Elliot, Isobel and Lucy.

Note to editors:

About Bury’d Treasure:

Bury’d Treasure is a pirate adventure game that’s perfect for families to have fun together in the borough of Bury this summer. Anyone can play, it won’t cost a single gold coin and even better, there’s loads of prizes to win.

The Bury’d Treasure trails will be ready and waiting to be discovered every single day between 27th June and 28th August 2016.

The trails are situated at Nuttall Park, Philips Park, Clarence Park, Kirklees Trail, Prestwich Clough, Outwood Country Park and Peel Monument.

The puzzles on each trail will be changed every Monday and all answers have to be submitted via the Bury’d Treasure website or app by midnight on the following Sunday.

Every puzzle answer entered via the Bury’d Treasure website or app is equal to one entry into the free weekly prize draw.

About I Will If You Will:

I Will If You Will is focused on changing women and girls’ behaviours towards taking part in sport and physical activity with the aim of getting more women and girls being more active, more often, and helping improve the health and wellbeing of people in Bury.

It aims to overcome the many practical and emotional barriers to being active, while encouraging women to support each other by joining the I Will If You Will community.

The phase one campaign (2013 – 14) was delivered by Bury Council with £2.3 million of National Lottery funding from Sport England.For the phase two campaign (2015 – 16), Sport England has allocated a further £2 million to extend delivery.

The successful IWIYW pilot campaign identified valuable insight and helped develop the foundations for Sport England’s national This Girl Can campaign, which launched in January 2015, as well as Sport England’s practical guide to helping women and girls get active (www.sportengland.org/womenandgirls).