The Network

Moving together in Bury

Bury is home to over 194,600 people across six towns. Active Lives data (Nov 2022 to Nov 2023) shows 73.2% of adults are active for at least 30 minutes a week, equating to 111,400 adults. This is a decrease of 2,300 from the previous year, reinforcing the need for continued collective action.

Bury is home to over 194,600 people and consists of six towns; Bury, Prestwich, Radcliffe, Ramsbottom, Tottington, and Whitefield.

The latest Active Lives results published by Sport England (November 2022-Nov 2023) shows that 73.2% of adults in Bury are active for at least 30 minutes a week, this equates to 111,400 adults moving. However this is a decrease of 2,300 from 12 months ago and we need to all keep working together to support active lives for all in Bury.

Learn more about Bury’s adult activity levels related to key demographic data such as gender, age and disability here.

Active Lives data (academic year 2022-23) also shows that 70.1% of children and young people (CYP) in Bury are moving, achieving at least 30 minutes of physical activity a day, this equates to 187,000 CYP.

For more information about children and young people’s physical activity levels in Bury, click here.

Place Partnerships

Place Partnerships aim to reduce inactivity and health inequalities. To do this we take a place-based, approach that brings together people, communities, and organisations to create sustainable solutions to inactivity.

Read about Bury’s Place Partnership

Local Strategy

Bury’s local strategy – Get Bury Moving

This is the physical activity strategy for Bury. People, communities and leaders across Bury have come together to develop this strategy. Together, we are ‘Team Bury’ and we all have a role to play in achieving our shared ambitions. This document sets out a framework for how we intend to increase the uptake of physical activity with all of our Bury residents

Download the Bury Moving Strategy Visit bury.gov.uk and see the sport strategy

Bury self-led walks

With funding support from the Groundwork Project; Ambition for Ageing, GreaterSport: Active Ageing and with help from ‘Bury Walk with Me’ trained Volunteer Walk Leaders, we’ve mapped out some of our most favoured and popular scheme led walks, (as well as some new ones) within each of the six townships of Bury.

Walking Routes

There are several curated walks in Bury, visit the gmwalking website to discover new routes in your borough

visit gmwalking.co.uk

Walking Groups

Find active walking groups in your area

Find walking groups at gmawalking.org.uk

Bury Self-Led Walks Booklet

This self-led walks booklet maps out some of our most favoured and popular scheme led walks, (as well as some new ones) within each of the six townships of Bury.

Download the pdf booklet

Together Fund Grants

GreaterSport has been working with Sport England to identify, support, and offer funding to community groups and organisations passionate about tackling inequalities surrounding access to sport and physical activity opportunities for priority audiences within their local areas.

In Bury, the following projects benefitted from the funding and have been successful in engaging their communities and improving physical activity levels during the first two phases:

Mad Theatre Company

Collaborate Out Loud

Spark Community

One Step Bury

ADAB Early Break

Bury Asian Women's Centre

The Sunnywood Project

BAME project

Bury People First

Supporting Sisters

Bury Defence Academy

Friends of Bury Young Carers

Partners

In Bury a range of partners are working to support people to be more active and to design moving, physical activity and sport back into daily life.

Bury Voluntary, Community and Faith Alliance

VCFA is an infrastructure organisation providing Volunteering and Development support to the VCF (also known as VCS) in Bury enhancing their ability to support local communities.

Bury School Games Organisers

School Games Organisers (SGOs) have several key roles: to coordinate appropriate competitive opportunities for all young people from Key Stage 2-4, to recruit, train and deploy a suitable workforce, and to support the development of club opportunities for all young people. In Bury, the SGOs are;

Andy Lord: a.lord@buryssp.co.uk
Gill Molloy: g.molloy@buryssp.co.uk

Transport for Greater Manchester

TfGM have a number of schemes aimed at making active travel the number one choice for travelling to work, to school and to the shops. This includes ‘The Bee Network’ connecting up areas and communities in Greater Manchester, making it easy, safe and attractive for people to travel on foot or by bike for everyday trips.