Community Litter picking with Peterborough Wombles To celebrate Coop Fortnight, Members & Community Council, Food Retail, Coop Group Pioneers & Peterborough Wombles worked together, litter picking behind Quaker House along the river & back up Thorpe Rd. 25 bags collected & more dates to work together in the diary.
Community Bike Event at Pinewood Ave, Lowestoft. Saturday 10th June at our Pinewood Avenue Food Retail we had a full day of bike realated activities. The morning was a health check for our members & customers bikes. After lunch Lee Pugh & his team delivered a workshop to educate us into how to look after our bikes
Eastern Health Day at St.Ives Retail Saturday 27th May we held a community day at St.Ives Food Retail. We had Bruce's Bikes doing health checks on our Customers bikes, Woodgreen offering advice & support for our customers pets, Liam from Fitness Rush with his mobile gym, MCC gazebo making fruit kebabs, giant snakes
Community Volunteering days Friday 9th June our Colleagues from Funeral & Retail came together to do an amazing job of decorating 8 rooms for Mencap, Suffolk Me Time in Halesworth. It was a great opportunity to take time out of our normal working schedule & create a home from home environment for the
Community Family Fun Day in Yaxley, Peterborough. A free event for everybody at our Yaxley Store. 11th August 11-2. Woodgreen will be delivering a talk, creative activities to make pet toys & free pet health checks. Learn hands on how to make pine come bird feeders to help feed their local wildlife at home with Project Abundance.
Eastern Coop History Bingo 45 minutes of fun & education for any groups in the Eastern Region. I have delivered to Opening Doors in Cromer, Diss & Norwich. Dementia Cafe's in Reepham, Sprowston & Lowestoft. Everyone loves the bingo & enjoys receiving a prize.
Community Printing Workshops this August. Print in Cromer 2023 Cromer Artspace is holding its first print event ‘On the Edge’ from 1st to 7th August. Seventy four printmakers will have work on show at Artspace on the prom. Come and look. There will also be printworks on display at the library, at Cromer Museum and
Community Time out Thursday- Wellbeing Event Thursday 20th April our FREE drop in event at Loddon Library - participant's decorated a pot, planted sunflower seeds and wrote a tag with a message of something that they would like to do before the plant flowers! Some chose joining a local walking group, reading under a
Community Peterborough Networking Event We are holding our second event on Tuesday 6th June 10.30-12.30 at Friends Meeting House, 21 Thorpe Road, Peterborough PE3 6AB. Please email tami.evans@centralengland.coop to book your place. A Central Coop Community Network event is a unique opportunity for those engaged in serving their local
Community Dying Matters Week Talking about death isn't easy, but it matters. Join the Dying Matters campaign to help us break the stigma, challenge preconceptions and normalise public openness around dying. We are holding three events during Dying Matters Week to bring our communities, members & colleagues together. Please come & join
Eastern Intergenerational Book Battle A wonderful afternoon at Hildesley Court on Friday with Pakefield Primary School. Get Suffolk Reading delivered a fun ‘book battle’ where Nigel Lungenmuss-Ward read a series of picture books and then together the residents and children discussed and voted for their favourite book. It was a wonderful way to bring
Eastern Working co-operatively in Peterborough is the key to success The Eastern Membership & Community Council which covers the whole of the Anglia region of the Central Co-op, decided to start a new Networking opportunity across Peterborough and Cambridgeshire. This is to enable the groups they have worked with and to branch out to other organisations the importance of coming
Eastern Members Friendship Group A very warm welcome to all our members. We enjoy a chat, a giggle, interesting speakers with a nice cup of tea or coffee. Always some biscuits & cake to share too. Easy access for all with some parking outside. £1 entry. We have Elvie from Loddon History Group booked
Eastern Time out Thursdays at Loddon Library A free event for everyone with a different theme each month, no need to book just come along to Loddon, Norfolk Library NR14 6EX. Public parking available. January-One Pot Cooking February- Healthy Eating Workshop March- Fairtrade Workshop April- Wellbeing, cupcake decorating & sunflower seed potting. Local holistic therapist available. May-
Eastern Intergenerational afternoon for World Book Day Working along side The National Literacy Trust, we supported a fabulous event at Lilac Lodge Care Home in Oulton with 10 children from Oulton Broad Primary School. World Book Day partners with National Literacy Trust who run the local project in Lowestoft Get Suffolk Reading. Get Suffolk Reading inspires families
Community Lots of activity for Fairtrade Fortnight in our Eastern Region Fun filled fortnight across the region. We delivered Fairtrade Workshops including mindfulness chocolate tasting to Opening Doors in Norwich, Cromer & Diss. Lowestoft Girl Guides, Loddon Juniors, Roman Hill Primary Year 4 children in Lowestoft. Family afternoon of fun including our giant Fairtrade snakes & ladders, visit from Pablo the
Eastern Amazing Co-op memories in Lowestoft ‘Amazing' legacy as memories shared at heritage celebration What a wonderful day we all had capturing stories and memories. Highlights included families bringing in photographs and memorabilia of their loved ones who used to work in the Canning Factories and sharing their stories, two former employees celebrating their 90th
Eastern Celebrating Co-operative History in Lowestoft - new date set New date set for Celebrating Co-operative history in Lowestoft Please come and enjoy us on this special day to celebrate the former CWS Canning Factory that once employed over 1000 people in the town. Originally planned as part of the September Heritage Open Day’s festival, the event was postponed
Eastern Lowestoft Heritage Day 17th September Come and learn about the Cooperative Heritage in Lowestoft for our open day at the Parcels Office in conjunction with Heritage Open Days. There will be an exhibition to showcase the former CWS canning factory and the Cooperative Holiday Camp with film shows and a chance to record memories and
Eastern Bike events in the East Eastern MCC have supported two bike events across the eastern region. The first took place at our Yaxley store on 30/08/2022 with donations of 10 bikes to be recycled and given to charity and another 8 repairs. The second at our Littleport Wisbech road store on 1/09/
News Central England Co-op in Cromer hosts summer holiday fun as it launches new community space There was hula hoop lessons, fruit kebabs, balloon modelling and even Olaf from Frozen made an appearance at the Holt Road store.
Eastern Healthy Choice Workshop Fun & educational day with all the children at The Hub- Kids Club Monday 8th August - The Children at The Hub in Huntingfield near our Halesworth Food Store had a fun filled day. We delivered our Healthy Choice workshop learning about 5 a day, portion sizes, eatwell guide &
Eastern Food and Farming Day 2022. Food and Farming day 2022 saw 3,000 children from the Cambridgeshire area educated in the food sector. We delivered our healthy choices workshop and the fairtrade facts with the puzzle and snakes and ladders game. With help from Eastern MCC member Blain Price and our funeral colleagues the day
Eastern Understanding Food Eco Systems A very successful event at West Raven Community Cafe and Gardens discussing local food eco systems across Peterborough and Cambridgeshire. The event was to look at how we collectively reduce food miles, waste and in particular better ways of recycling or growing food across the regions. Presentations were made on
Eastern A great day out at Nene Park The Membership & Community Council enjoyed working with retail and funeral at the Nene Park Community Day in Peterborough. A great opportunity for the children to use the educational materials and learn new things. The Fairtrade snakes and ladders was a great success.
