Make it your New Year’s resolution to get involved and volunteer with local community groups. Volunteering isn’t just about helping and supporting others. Volunteering can also help you personally a wide range of ways – from improving your own wellbeing and mental health, to developing new skills to meeting new people and being better connected to you community.
Our thousands of volunteers do so much for the residents of the borough.
More than 700 stars have been decorated and displayed across the borough to thank each volunteer who came forward to support local communities during the Coronavirus pandemic.
The Mayor of Bury, Councillor Tim Pickstone, had the opportunity to congratulate some of the volunteers from D-Caff on their Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service award.
Carers across the borough have been pulling out all the stops to keep safe some of Bury’s most vulnerable residents during the coronavirus outbreak.
The hundreds of people working in Bury’s five Community Hubs during the Covid-19 crisis have been thanked by the Mayor of Bury.
An army of volunteers who have supported their local communities during the Covid-19 crisis are being thanked by Bury Council in National Volunteers Week.
The hundreds of volunteers who are looking after our most vulnerable have been thanked by council leader David Jones and chief executive Geoff Little.
Bury Council has partnered with leading Cloud and Digital Services Provider, ANS, to quickly and easily coordinate requests for support and volunteering in the community in response to the Covid-19 crisis.
Do you know a Bury Council worker who has gone the extra mile to provide good public service?
Four Bury winners of the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service (QAVS) celebrated their success with the Mayor of Bury, Councillor Jane Black.
Residents are being invited to get moving and enjoy the outdoors at a new weekly Radcliffe Community Health Walk.
Three volunteers who have inspired hundreds of local people to take up walking have been nominated for a national award.
Gardeners, volunteers, and council staff are awaiting the verdict after judges from RHS North West in Bloom and Britain in Bloom came to the borough.
Residents are urged to nominate their favourite local voluntary group to win the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service (QAVS).
I Will If You Will (IWIYW), the Bury-based female fitness movement, has launched its exciting new Champions Programme.
Bury’s “unsung heroes” have been rewarded with Made in Bury awards for their outstanding contribution to the community.
Bury Council is recruiting community members who can help to raise awareness of adult abuse and help to tackle it.
Bury Council is calling all residents to become a Snow Angel and help their relatives, friends and neighbours to stay safe, warm and well in their homes this winter.
Free weekly 2k and 5k races aim to get the great Bury public moving in the Great Run Local.