Bury Market - a Healthy Start destination!

Stall holders on the famous Bury Market are now taking Healthy Start cards, helping visitors to provide their families with nutritious and affordable food.

The NHS Healthy Start scheme is for eligible people who are pregnant or have children under the age of 4, offering help towards milk, fruit, vegetables, pulses and formula.

Healthy Start cards can now be used on Bury Market at Ward’s Fruit & Veg, Iddon’s Fruit & Veg and Tom’s Bargain Corner.

Healthy Start at Bury Market is administered locally by Bury Food Partnership, following a successful funding application to Sustainable Food Places.

Councillor Charlotte Morris, cabinet member for culture and the economy, said: “We know how much the cost of living is affecting families, especially with the rising cost of food. I am delighted that the council and Bury Market are working together to improve access to good quality food. No child deserves to go hungry and the Healthy Start scheme is targeted to make sure children have a good start in life.

“Promoting Healthy Start at Bury Market helps local families, but also supports the local economy as the cards are redeemed directly with small local businesses. This partnership encourages local people who might not have thought of the market as a possible location for their food needs to find out just what is on offer.

“Making Healthy Start provision go as far as it can, and connecting people with produce through promotion of the scheme, forms part of The Bury Food Partnership’s work, to strengthen our local food system and providing good food for all.”

Find out if you could be eligible for Healthy Start at: www.healthystart.nhs.uk.

Healthy Start cards are worth £442 per year to the average family in Greater Manchester, and the stallholders of Bury Market would love to share their delicious produce with you!

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Press release issued: 19 May 2023.

Picture: Healthy Start on Bury Market with council leader Eamonn O’Brien and cabinet member Charlotte Morris.

Note to editors

Sustainable Food Places is a partnership programme led by the Soil Association, Food Matters and Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming. It is funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and The National Lottery Community Fund.

The Sustainable Food Places network brings together pioneering food partnerships from towns, cities, boroughs, districts and counties across the UK that are driving innovation and best practice on all aspects of healthy and sustainable food across six key areas:

• Taking a strategic and collaborative approach to good food governance and action
• Building public awareness, active food citizenship and a local good food movement
• Tackling food poverty, diet related ill-health and access to affordable healthy food
• Creating a vibrant, prosperous and diverse sustainable food economy
• Transforming catering and procurement and revitalizing local supply chains
• Tackling the climate and nature emergency through sustainable food and farming and an end to food waste.

For more information visit https://www.sustainablefoodplaces.org/ or follow on Twitter: @FoodPlacesUK

The Bury Food Partnershipcontinually seeks ways to strengthen our local food system and is passionate about providing good food for all, achieving the prestigious Sustainable Food Places bronze award (June 2022).

Healthy Start cards are worth £442 per year to the average family in Greater Manchester.

£4.25 each week of your pregnancy (from the 10th week of pregnancy)

£8.50 each week for children from birth to 1 year old

£4.25 each week for children between 1 and 4 years