Bury Food Partnership launched the very first Bury Food Strategy – Eat, Live, Love Food in 2021, following its endorsement by the Health & Wellbeing Board. It has since been integrated as part of the wider Bury Council 2030 Let’s Do It Strategy for the future of our borough. Alignment with complementary strategies has opened the way for food-related issues to be considered in many areas, such as Anti-Poverty, Climate Action, Cultural and Economic Growth. From the outset the Partnership has adopted whole systems thinking, and prides itself on being a positive space to connect, challenge and help shape the way Bury sources and provides good food for all.
Through the Partnership, Bury became a Sustainable Food Places (SFPs) network member, using SFP themes to collate partner activity across the food system. This process in and of itself acted as a constructive means to track and drive further activity. Bury were awarded the Sustainable Food Places Bronze award in 2022 and the SFPs Silver award for Bury in 2024. We are passionate about building on this momentum and driving this work forward by seeking out initiatives, policies and campaigns that complement, strengthen, and steer our food culture and food system for the better. Bury Food Partnership are now actively working towards the SFP Gold accreditation.
Leon Ballin, the Sustainable Food Places Programme Manager, said: “Bury Food Partnership has shown just what can be achieved when creative and committed people work together to make healthy and sustainable food a defining characteristic of where they live. While there is still much to do and many challenges to overcome, Bury Food Partnership has helped to set a benchmark for the other 100+ members of the UK Sustainable Food Places Network to follow. They should be very proud of the work that they have been doing to transform our collective food culture and food system for the better.”
The Bury Good Food Charter & How to Play Your Part
We want Bury to be at the forefront of promoting and celebrating good food for all, through knowledgeable partners working together in a vibrant food culture.
The Bury Good Food Charter encapsulates this, outlining our food vision, principles, ambitions, and gives you the chance to join in and get involved.
Media articles showcasing a flavour of Partnership activity
