What We Do
Want to register your group of volunteers on the BGU website? It's really easy and quick and we have a helpful document to guide you.
Click here to find the BGU Website User Guide
BGU Website User Guide to your Admin menu
Find out how to get the best out of your group's entry on the BGU website; our User Guide will tell you what you need to know
Click here to read the Group Admin User Guide
BGU Grants 2023/24
In November 2023 BGU received funding from UKSPF (UK Shared Prosperity Fund) via Bolton Council. £15,000 of this is being used to offer £200 grants to eligible registered groups. The grant programme has to be completed by end of March 2024 including feedback from recipient groups, so it is a very short timeframe! So please make your application ASAP otherwise you may be disappointed if it has all been allocated.
Click here for the Grant Application Form
Click here for Grant Guidelines
BGU High Street Funding 2019 - 2022: feedback from recipient groups
In August 2019 BGU were awarded some funding from Bolton Council, out of the government's High Street funding. Over several months this money was distributed by BGU to a large number of voluntary groups
Click here to see feedback from some of the groups which received donations
Green Umbrella community litterbin project
Some areas of Bolton already have a
community litterbin, which is emptied by volunteers.
Green Umbrella want to promote this great idea by facilitating the provision
further community bins. We will help to acquire or even bins, and will liaise
with groups or individual volunteers in an area to organise emptying and
maintaining.