Let’s Do it Together - have your say on who receives funding to support Covid recovery in your neighbourhood

Local communities will be deciding, during the next few weeks, which projects should be funded to help with Covid recovery in their neighbourhoods.

More than 80 projects have been submitted for a share of £300,000 Neighbourhood Pitch funding.

Residents in each of the five neighbourhoods will be able to decide, in person and online, after learning about projects in their areas.

Voting opens online on Monday 29 November at https://www.onecommunitybury.co.uk/let-s-do-it-together-neighbourhood-pitch while the first in-person vote takes place on Sunday 5 December for the East Neighbourhood.

At the in-person events each project will have a stall outlining their proposal and you can vote as to who should receive Pitch funding, so come along at any time during the Pitch event to have your say.

Councillor Richard Gold, cabinet member for communities, said: “Come along to meet local community groups and learn about their projects to support Covid recovery in your neighbourhood.

“You’ll be able to discuss their proposals and you can vote for which five projects you think best meet the priorities in your areas.

“The Covid-19 pandemic has presented the greatest challenge that our communities have faced.

“Through our over-arching Let’s Do It strategy we have an opportunity to develop every neighbourhood in the borough to be better and stronger than before the pandemic, tackling the causes of inequality and ensuring good life chances for all by building back better.”

Community groups were able to apply for the Neighbourhood Pitch funding to support projects which will benefit their neighbourhood in the post-Covid recovery.

The Neighbourhood Pitch monies are being made available to support:

• Improved quality of life in terms of length of life and good health
• Improved support to children so that they are better prepared for school
• More young people getting the qualifications they need for the future
• Better support to adults who want to retrain and find new jobs
• Higher wage rates and business growth that benefits everyone
• Improvements to our environment by being carbon neutral by 2038
• Better access to digital services through how we connect to broadband and mobile networks, or through improving our skills to use digital products

Any community group, local network or voluntary organisations, based in or working with communities in the borough of Bury, was able to apply for up to £5,000.

Community groups will be pitching to residents at five events in each of their areas:

• Bury East Neighbourhood Pitch (East ward, Moorside and Redvales). Sunday 5 December, 10am-1pm. Mosses Centre, 48 Cecil St, Bury BL9 0SB
• West Pitch (Radcliffe and Church)
• Saturday 11 December, 11am-2pm at Radcliffe Market, 11 Blackburn Street, Radcliffe, M26 1PN.
• North Pitch (Elton, North Manor, Ramsbottom and Tottington)
• Saturday 11 December, 2-4pm at Holcombe Brook Sports and Tennis Club, Hazel Hall Lane, Off Longsight Road, Holcombe Brook, Bury, Lancashire, BL0 9UP (When travelling by car please use postcode BL8 4DB).
• Whitefield Pitch (Besses, Pilkington Park and Unsworth)
• Sunday 12 December, 2-4pm at The Elms Community Centre, Green Lane, Whitefield, M45 7FD.
• Prestwich Pitch (Holyrood, Sedgley and St Mary’s)
• Sunday 12 December, 2-4pm at Our Lady of Grace Parish Hall, 11 Fairfax Rd, Prestwich, M25 1AS

ENDS

Press release issued: 26 November 2021.