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Lowestoft Heritage Day 17th September

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

Bike events in the East

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/

Food and Farming Day 2022.

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

Visit to West Raven Community Garden

Visit to West Raven Community Garden

After an educational visit to the West Raven Community Garden the Eastern MCC will be working together with the volunteers to deliver educational workshops to children. Including planting wildflowers, the ecosystem and how we can support wildlife and sustainability. The fantastic facilities in the community garden means there are endless

Yaxley Sustainable space launch

Yaxley Sustainable space launch

Yaxley foodstore launched their sustainable space with the help of Fourfields primary school. Activities such as healthy choices workshops, planting, rock painting and a treasure hunt all took place over the the course of the morning. The children enjoyed spending time outside and using the new green space. Bumble bee

Reepham community support for young refugees

The Eastern MCC have supported a young group of refugees in Reepham with outdoor clothing and healthy lunches. The group of youngsters have been engaging in horticultural education at "Fields of Joy" small holding in Reepham. They have learned how to work with tools, aswell as the animals

Bike repairs at Sutton in the Isle

MCC members from the East- Tim Hoof and Amber Cook along with store colleagues have supported our bike repair initiative at our new Sutton store. Working alongside Living Sports and Brucie's bikes 17 bicycles were repaired over the duration of the day.

Support for local Sensory garden

MCC members in the Eastern Region have been out with their green fingers supporting a primary school in Fressingfield- near Eye in Suffolk. The children at the school have designed their sensory garden from ideas in the classrooms and our MCC members have supported these coming to real life in

New Member group for Wells Next The Sea

The start of the Summer months means a return for some of our member groups in the Eastern Region. We have managed to start a new group in Wells-Next-the-sea, a mental health yoga for members in the area. The Community hospital in Wells is a great venue for many activities

Return to school 2021.

Eastern MCC member Blain along with colleague Chloe attended and delivered a job role workshop at Reepham High School. Having not been into any schools in over a year this was a fantastic activity to support for our return in 2021. Explaining to year 11 students the benefits and progression

Fairtrade in the East

Cubs were tasked with creating their own fairtrade bunting!The Eastern MCC along with the manager of our Mulbarton store delivered Fairtrade workshops to over 500 people during Fairtrade fortnight. Mulbarton manager- Jamie Twell is also a Scout Leader in his spare time and caused a wave of interest in

Langley Bread donations

The Eastern MCC supported the Langley Bread group of widows in St Ives this week with supplies to enable the members to carry on baking through lockdown. The Mayor was present at the store to show support for the group.