Make it your New Year’s resolution to get involved and volunteer with local community groups. Volunteering isn’t just about helping and supporting others. Volunteering can also help you personally a wide range of ways – from improving your own wellbeing and mental health, to developing new skills to meeting new people and being better connected to you community.
Fifty-eight voluntary groups from across Bury’s communities have been successful in applying for support through the LET’S Do It! Community Fund. The money will be used to support a range of activities from exercise to e-learning and mental health to meals.
Jane Tomlinson’s Run For All, in partnership with Bury Council, have today announced that entries are open for the return of one of the region’s most highly anticipated and popular charity road running events, the Bury Running Festival.
Community groups, businesses, and public services from across the borough have shown their support for the White Ribbon campaign to end violence against women and girls.
Radcliffe Food Club has been able to increase its cost-of-living support thanks to a cost-of-living grant from Bury Council and Bury Voluntary, Community and Faith Alliance (VCFA). The charity, based at Bridge Community Church in the town, applied and received £1960 from the Cost of Living Community Fund to extend their services to include a permanent clothes shop, to help with heating costs and
Bury Council has joined over 25 local authorities across the nation to recruit more foster carers.
Community groups which help veterans and cadets with cost of living and other support are benefitting from funding. Five groups around the borough applied for and received grants in the latest round of funding.
A range of projects run by community groups have received support from Bury Council and Bury Voluntary, Community, Faith Alliance (VCFA) to help residents with the cost of living.
Residents are being reminded by Bury Council that over the festive period (25 December to 5 January) collections of grey, green, and blue bins will change to one day later than usual.
New guidance has been drawn up to keep taxi drivers safe and encourage the public to have a trouble-free journey.
Around 400 winter warmer packs for those most in need have been produced and distributed across the borough.
More than 150 people came to the latest cost of living showcase held at the Mosses Centre in Bury.