Bleakholt Animal Sanctuary

Bleakholt Animal Sanctuary, is one of the largest animal welfare charities in the North of England. For over 60 years Bleakholt has been rescuing, rehabilitating, and rehoming animals across the North West. Bleakholt operates entirely without any government funding. It costs over £1.6 million a year to run the sanctuary and our services are needed more than ever with the requests to help animals rapidly increasing. Rising costs of living have put huge pressures on pet owners and the number of owners needing help has greatly increased. Finding new loving homes for over 1000 animals each year, the Sanctuary is also home to Horses, Donkeys, Goats, Pigs and Chickens. Bleakholt provides a place where local communities can visit for free and learn about the work the charity does.

There is currently a huge problem in our area with stray and abandoned cats.
That’s why this year we’re launching Project Purrfect, a vital £300,000 cattery renovation to help reduce suffering and meet the rising demand for cat rescue and rehoming. In 2024 alone, we rehomed over 500 cats, despite this our waiting list for cats needing our help far outweighed the number we were able to accommodate.

Bury Hospice

Bury Hospice opened its doors in 1991 and since this time we have continued to provide invaluable palliative and end-of-life care to thousands of patients and their families across Bury. Our services include a specialist 24 hour inpatient unit, medical and respite facilities, complementary therapies, family bereavement support, and a dedicated community outreach team who service the needs of patient and their families in their own homes.

We host outpatient clinics, bringing treatments closer to home. The Living Well Centre houses our weekly phlebotomy and Systemic Anti Cancer Therapies (SACT) clinics, in partnership with The Christie NHS Foundation Trust.

We also host a Motor Neurone Disease (MND) clinic. We have partnered with Salford Royal Hospital (Northern Care Alliance).

We do this through grants and trusts and via our income generation channels which include our shops, our weekly lottery and fundraising events that run throughout the year. We also could not do what we do without with the generosity of our community, businesses across the borough and our amazing volunteers.

Restart The Heart

Restart The Heart CIO is a volunteer-led charity dedicated to saving lives through the placement of publicly accessible defibrillators, CPR education, and community awareness.

Our mission is simple: to give every person suffering a cardiac arrest the best possible chance of survival. We believe that nobody should lose their life because help or lifesaving equipment was too far away. Every minute without CPR and defibrillation reduces survival chances dramatically, which is why our work focuses on getting defibrillators into the heart of local communities and ensuring people feel confident enough to use them.

Our work is driven by real stories, real loss, and real determination to create lasting legacies in memory of loved ones lost too soon. Through partnerships with local businesses, schools, families, and supporters, we are building safer communities where ordinary people are empowered to save lives.