Bury Food Partnership Media Articles

Bury Council celebrated the launch of the borough’s first community food-growing project under the new ‘Right to Grow’ initiative, with a group of enthusiastic neighbours who have established ‘Lancaster Roots’ in Ramsbottom.

Bury Council's school dinner service has been given a prestigious gold award and is one of only two councils in the whole country to have achieved the status.

A groundbreaking initiative, ‘Right to Grow’, is launching in Bury, encouraging communities to transform public spaces into vibrant places by growing fresh food. This exciting new community growing initiative, detailed on the Incredible Edible Prestwich website aims to bring residents together, nurture local environments, and boost health and wellbeing across the borough.

The Sustainable Food Places award acknowledges the work of the Bury Food Partnership in promoting healthy and sustainable food. The partnership also tackles food poverty, diet-related health issues, the decline of family farms, and the reduction of independent food retailers.

Bury Council has achieved a silver Food for Life Served Here Award from the Soil Association for serving healthy and sustainable school meals to pupils.

The Radcliffe Food Club operates as part of the Community Hub, following a pantry model. They open with two time slots on a Wednesday, in the morning and evening, welcoming around 53 members each week. Members pay a membership fee of £5 per year which includes an initial free shop of 12 items across the range.

The success of Bury Market lies in a collective understanding within the Council that the market is a front-line service which must reflect and support the community it serves. David Caterall explores how this traditional market creates community value.

Bury Market, located in the north of Greater Manchester, first started operating in the 1400’s. Boasting over 350 stalls with an impressive 150,000 visitors per week, it is known as the ‘Jewel in the Crown’ of Bury Town Centre.

Bury Market was recently awarded £20m of Government Levelling up funding to build a flexible events centre and replace and improve the Market canopy roof to enable modernisation without gentrification.

Since the beginning of the local campaign to increase the uptake of Healthy Start, Bury has seen uptake increase by ten per cent, with more people eligible to the scheme now claiming and receiving the weekly payments. This might seem a modest increase but over the course of a year this equates to £16K back into peoples’ pockets at a time of great need, with some of it being spent locally at fruit and veg stalls in Bury Market.

Cost of living support from Bury Council is helping residents with affordable healthy cooking and access to pre-loved kitchen items.

Friends of Clarence Park and social enterprise Cracking Good Food recently held a Kitchen Kit Giveaway and cooking activity fun day.

Affordable food projects based on low-cost trading models such as pantries, community cafes, food coops and other community food projects allow service users to get more for less, often alongside wrap around support and a space to socialise.

When I was asked to host a Soil Association staff experience day to demonstrate the connectivity of good food for all, the first place I thought of was my hometown of Bury and the thriving market we have

- Public Health Practitioner (Food and Health)

It has been over 3 months since the launch of Bury Market's NHS Healthy Start campaign, and what a positive impact it has had!

On 14 June, the 90+ strong Sustainable Food Places network joined parliamentarians in Westminster to underscore the role of food partnerships in developing and attracting investment in the food and farming sector. Sustain’s Vera Zakharov and Bella Driessen explore the key ingredients to help serve up a better food system.

New campaign to promote the use of Healthy Start cards at Bury Market means more low-income families can buy their fruit and vegetables from local stall holders.

Healthy Start at Bury Market was launched with a celebration cooking demonstration using fresh and low-cost ingredients on the market.

Stall holders on Bury Market are taking part in a new scheme to help visitors provide their families with nutritious and affordable food.

The council's school dinner service has been recognised for serving "healthy and sustainable" meals to youngsters.

Bury Catering – Bury Council’s school dinner service – has achieved a Food for Life Served Here Bronze Award from the Soil Association for serving healthy and sustainable meals.

Bury Council has achieved a Food for Life Served Here bronze award from the Soil Association for serving sustainable and healthy school meals.

Bury has become the latest place to win a prestigious food award.

The famous Bury Market is champion once more after being voted Britain's Favourite Market - for the second time - by visitors in an online poll.

A Bury Market stall is helping the community make healthy and affordable meals amid the cost-of-living crisis.

A SERIES of cooking demonstrations will take place at Bury Market aimed at encouraging Bury Adult Learning Service’s new course guide.