Community groups win Parklife funding for local causes
Community groups across Prestwich and nearby have been granted funding from the Parklife concerts to organise activities.
Community groups across Prestwich and nearby have been granted funding from the Parklife concerts to organise activities.
Bury’s talented children have been plotting out a career working in the built environment. Seven young people, who have experienced being in care or looked after, were treated to a careers development seminar by the council’s Joint Venture Partner Muse Places.
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Fifty-eight voluntary groups from across Bury’s communities have been successful in applying for support through the LET’S Do It! Community Fund. The money will be used to support a range of activities from exercise to e-learning and mental health to meals.
Nationwide placemaker Muse and Bury Council have unveiled new CGIs and an updated masterplan on the future of Prestwich village.
A new children’s play area in Prestwich has been hit by vandals for the fourth time since it opened in April.
Join Carl Harrison from the Macular Society as he gives a talk during Hi-Vis Fortnight at Prestwich Library on Friday 2 June (1pm–2pm).
Community groups across Prestwich have been granted funding from the Parklife concerts to organise activities across the town.
Nationwide placemaker Muse and Bury Council have launched the first community conversation on the future of Prestwich Village, as a draft masterplan and new images are revealed to act as a starting point for the discussions to shape the regeneration.
A new volunteer-led writers group meets at Prestwich Library every Thursday evening from 5.30pm to 6.45pm.
Budding entrepreneurs are invited to get free help from the library to develop their business.
Bury Council and Muse form joint venture to deliver Prestwich Village regeneration.
Main roads in Radcliffe and Prestwich are to be resurfaced in the latest phase of the council’s highway improvement programme.
Residents in Prestwich can get a taste of electric motoring with the arrival of Enterprise Car Club into the town, with two vehicles based at Fairfax Road car park.
Plans to redevelop the Longfield Centre and create a new community heart for Prestwich are moving forward, with a conversation on the proposals set to launch later in the Spring.
A celebration event took place at the Phoenix Centre in Prestwich on Sunday to showcase some of the local projects that will benefit from Parklife funding.
A special application is to be added to traffic lights at a new signalised traffic junction in Sedgley Park to enable Orthodox Jewish residents to cross the road on Shabbos and Jewish holidays without pressing any buttons.
An English oak tree will be planted in each of Bury’s 12 Green Flag parks as part of the Queen’s platinum jubilee celebrations.
BAFTA award-winning comedy writer Sophie Willan is to deliver an exclusive comedy writing course especially for Prestwich Library.
A Six Town Housing tenant who continued to cause noise nuisance to his neighbours has been fined and had his equipment permanently confiscated.
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.
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