Eastern Cooking Club Our Eastern Membership & Community Council have funded six cooking sessions in partnership with H.E.L.P (helping empower people in Peterborough). MCC Vice Chair, Sam Lefevre, MCC member, Shannon Hilton & I have all attended a session which has filled us all with warmth & gratitude. The stories
Eastern Free Bike Health Checks Eastern Membership & Community Council are holding free bike health checks at our Food Stores around the region. Please see details below. Come along & meet some of our members of our Council while getting your bike safe & ready for the warmer weather. 6th April Chartwell Rd, Sprowston NR6
Community Intergenerational Workshops- Appreciating Windowsills. Our Eastern Membership & Community Council have been working with Partners Sally Connick, from National Literacy Trust for over two years in Lowestoft to support the campaign "Get Suffolk Reading" In February we delivered three wonderful workshops with Caroline England, from Featherbed Tales. Our first event was with
Community UP BEAT! Monthly Singing & Music making group in Halesworth Community Room. In partnership with Communities Together East Anglia. Fully inclusive & accessible monthly sessions using music & singing for health & wellbeing. Everybody welcome & no singing voice is necessary. Helen Hayes is well known locally for her passion & enthusiasm.
Community Dementia Awareness Week 2024 This year, Dementia Awareness Week begins on May 13th to 19t. Did you know that someone develops dementia every three minutes in the U.K.? It’s true, and dementia not only affects old people (over the age of 65), but it can also affect people in their 30s, 40s,
Community Free Bike Health Checks at our store on Badgeney Road in March, Cambridgeshire. Friday 23rd February get your bikes ready for the Spring! We will be offering free bike health checks at our store between 11&2pm & if you have any unwanted bikes, Chris from Brucies Bikes will happily take them to be recycled. Our Membership & Community Council will be
Community Working From Home Hub Every Thursday 9.30-3.30 in our Community Room in Halesworth, come and join others who work from home. Have a cuppa in the warm.
Community UP BEAT- Singing for Health A new group starting 15th January in our Community Room in Halesworth, everybody welcome.
Community Festive Activities Some wonderful festive activities took place in the Eastern region. From wellbeing crafts sessions to Christmas meals & parties. Thank you to all wonderful groups we support & our partners, Rachel Wiles, Loddon Library, Mencap, Cromer Friendship Group, Halesworth Lions. We wish you all a Happy New Year from our
Community Career Talk Students in year 11 participated in our Career talk today with Brad Tuckfield, Store Manager & Board Director, Anya Newton, Team Leader & myself. Great engagement & lots of questions. A real delight being part of their career talks at Fred Nicholas School in Dereham, Norfolk who have not had
Community Loddon Re-gen opening event 24th Nov we welcomed Loddon Juniors Eco group for a visit of our new look store in Loddon. The eight children were delighted to have a tour & speak with our colleagues. The smell of the cookies baking were a very tempting, distraction from the cold & wet weather outside.
Community Careers Day at Reepham High School Store Manager & Board Director Bradley Tuckfield & I spent the day at Reepham High School 8th November. We delivered a presentation to the year 11 students about the career opportunities at Central Coop, including work experience & debt free degrees. We spoke about joining our Membership Community Council &
Community Halesworth Members Meeting. The live broadcasting meeting was streamed from the Derby Conference Centre to other satellite venues in Yorkshire, Halesworth, Market Harborough and Stafford plus online. We had a wonderful evening at The Rifle Hall in Halesworth, We opened the event with Helen Hayes with a sing along & musical instruments for
Community Brampton Community Day Great community engagement at our Brampton Store with Brucies Bikes offering free bike checks & minor repairs, Project abundance supporting the children with making fantastic pinecone bird feeders, delicious fruit kebabs were enjoyed by all & Funeral & Retail team working together to raise money for Dementia UK.
Eastern Yaxley Community Event The sun was shining & families enjoyed learning about caring for their pets & making toys with Woodgreen Pet Charity, creating pinecone bird feeders with Lewis from Project Abundance & delicious fruit kebabs with Funeral colleagues outside our store in Yaxley.
Community Saturday 9th in Alconbury Weald Everybody welcome to join in activities throughout the day, with Urban & Civic. Would you like to know more about how and why working class people in Rochdale decided to start a new type of business, and how it became a successful model for co-operatives all over the world today?
Eastern Members Boat Cruise Monday 21st August 11 of our Loddon Members Friendship Group boarded the Waveney Stardust for a relaxing cruise on the Broads. The sun was shining, the views were fantastic & the vibe was chilled. The crew looked after us all well, serving tea & coffee throughout the trip. Our Eastern
Community Together for Pride in Peterborough. WOW! What a day, vibrant, energetic & full of love! Colleagues came together to celebrate Pride! The Green Back yard was were we set up the gazebo for the day at 11.30. We all then headed to Stanley Rec Park, ready for the parade. It was an amazing experience,
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
