Bury Market – use your Healthy Start vouchers here!

Healthy Start at Bury Market was launched with a celebration cooking demonstration using fresh and low-cost ingredients on the market.

Among those taking part were the Mayor of Bury, Cllr Sandra Walmsley, council cabinet member Cllr Tamoor Tariq, along with officers from Bury Market, schools catering and adult learning.

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 Pete’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 Tamoor Tariq, cabinet member for adult care, health and wellbeing, said: “We are passionate about nurturing access to affordable, local, quality produce via promoting the use of Healthy Start cards at Bury Market for the first time. This supports local families and the local economy through being redeemed directly with small local businesses.”

“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: 26 May 2023.

Picture: On the left are Is Cllr Tamoor Tariq with David Catterall, Fran Vale and Tracey Coatman in front of Iddon’s Fruit and Veg. The right shows the Mayor, Cllr Sandra Walmsley, with Tom of Tom’s Bargain Corner and Pete of Pete’s Fruit and Veg.

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).