Township Forums

What are the Township Forums?

Take part, discuss local issues and concerns and get involved in setting local priorities for your area.

Bury Council has six Township Forums which cover the following areas;

• Bury East - this includes Moorside, Redvales and East wards.
• Bury West - this includes Elton and Church wards
• Prestwich - this includes  St. Mary's, Sedgley, and Holyrood wards.
• Radcliffe - this includes Radcliffe North, Radcliffe West and Radcliffe East wards.
• Ramsbottom, Tottington & North Manor - this includes Ramsbottom, Tottington and North Manor wards.
• Whitefield & Unsworth - this includes Pilkington Park, Besses and Unsworth wards.

About Township Forums

Each Township Forum welcomes those who live, work, or have an interest in that area. Each area forum meets at local venues, in places such as schools and community centres. All area forum discussions are fed back to the council for appropriate action.

Each Township Forum consists of all the councillors representing the area and a co-opted advisory group of local representatives. Each advisory group, consists of local representatives made up of representatives from the business community, voluntary organisations or community groups within the area.  There are up to nine members on each Advisory Group and these can be found by visiting each of the six township forum pages above.

Advisory Group members play an important role in the Township Forum, expressing their views on local issues and helping to improve the range of knowledge and expertise on the Township Forum.

They are required to; provide a link with similar organisations/groups in your area and the Township Forum, play a key role in projects and initiatives to improve the area, use networking to communicate important issues and inform others about the work of the Township Forum and attend all, or most of, the Township Forum meetings.

Meeting Dates

You can find out about the next meeting in your area by looking at the page for your township forum area. 

Review of Township Forums

Thank you to all those who participated in the consultation on the Township Forums. A number of recommendations to further enhance the initiative were highlighted from this consultation and agreed at the meeting of Full Council on 16 May 2012.

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