Free craft sessions for Six Town tenants
Tenants of Six Town Housing can enjoy free craft demonstrations at Topping Fold Community Centre and Library.
Tenants of Six Town Housing can enjoy free craft demonstrations at Topping Fold Community Centre and Library.
Bury residents are invited to attend money management workshops to help them cope with changes to the benefits system.
Bury Council, St Vincent’s Housing Association and Six Town Housing are working together on an exciting project to build nine new “affordable rent” properties in Bury.
Six Town Housing and Bury Council have been helping Bury’s young people back into work – and bringing empty properties back into use.
Plans to set up the borough’s first Credit Union are being closely examined by Bury Council and Six Town Housing.
Six Town Housing has funded a successful initiative to help local young people into employment in Bury. Six Town Housing funded a pilot project, teaming up with Clearaims, an organisation that uses various creative learning techniques to help young people back into education, employment and training.
Bury Council and Six Town Housing have successfully bid for government funding from the Homes and Communities Agency to bring empty properties back into use around Bury.
Six Town Housing has established a group of “Energy Champions” made of volunteer members of the community, who receive free specialised training to help spread the word to other tenants on how to save energy – and money.
Tenants and residents gathered together in Outwood Community Centre this week for a day of free family fun and involvement and to register their support for a proposed youth club.
This winter, Six Town Housing held a “Chip ‘n’ Skip” initiative, where they placed large skips around neighbourhoods in Radcliffe, Bury and brought a tree chipper to give tenants the opportunity to clear in and around their property.
Scores of local residents came to see the opening of the borough’s new £6 million Red Bank extra care scheme.
Bury Council consists of six towns, Bury, Ramsbottom, Tottington, Radcliffe, Whitefield and Prestwich. Formed in April 1974 as a result of Local Government re-organisation it was one of the ten original districts that formed the County of Greater Manchester. The Borough has an area of 9,919 hectares (24,511 acres) and serves a population of 187,500.