Bury has won a Sustainable Food Places award. The award recognises Bury Food Partnership’s work to promote healthy, sustainable and local food and to tackle some of today’s greatest social challenges.
Bury School Catering, Bury Council’s school dinner service, has achieved Food for Life Served Here Silver certification and the Green Kitchen Standard award from the Soil Association for serving healthy and sustainable meals.
A leaflet championing the need to waste less food will be delivered to residents across the borough of Bury from today, along with a roll of 52 compostable food waste liners.
Shoppers were given a taste of healthy and affordable food when they visited the Cook Well for Less stall on Bury Market.
Bury has become the latest place to win a prestigious Sustainable Food Places award.
Council leaders have praised the tremendous job that Trinity Foodbank is doing to support some of the neediest people in the borough.
Bury Council is writing to local businesses reminding them that new rules around the labelling of food come into effect next month.
Volunteers are urgently needed to help deliver food to vulnerable residents, particularly in Prestwich and Whitefield.
Street food and local cask ales and gins await visitors to Ramsbottom’s Friday Night Bite next week (1 Feb).
With Christmas just under three weeks away, Radcliffe-based charity Porch Boxes is busier than ever with people turning to them for food boxes and other essentials.
Residents throughout the borough of Bury are being urged to spring into recycling and give their brown recycling bins a bit of extra love.
Environmental health inspectors have closed down a hot food takeaway after finding the premises infested with cockroaches.
Bury Council’s recycling and awareness team are running a series of road shows in June to help residents get to grips with what goes in which bin and to highlight why it’s so important to recycle food waste.
Youngsters at St Margaret’s CE Primary School in Prestwich have been praised for their superb efforts in food recycling.
Bury Council is urging residents to get behind the drive to increase food waste recycling and get the borough’s recycling rate up from 55% to 60% or more.
Bury Fairtrade received a prestigious boost when the upmarket Fairtrade brand Divine Chocolate offered to help the group’s awareness raising campaign during Fairtrade Fortnight (29 Feb to 13 Mar).
Big-hearted traders on Bury Market rallied round to help those worst affected by the Boxing Day floods.
Food safety officers have put together a handy list of tips to help families have a trouble-free Christmas dinner.
Bury Council’s campaign to ‘Recycle the food you can’t eat’ has been launched with a special assembly at St Margaret’s CE Primary School in Prestwich.
New markets are planned for Ramsbottom and Prestwich to attract visitors and benefit the local community.