Tanya Noon

The Northern Membership and Community Relations Officer is Tanya Noon. She oversees Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and South/West Yorkshire.

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Financial wizards

A productive session with students from Honley High Co-operative School on financial life skills.  The session was delivered by the Yorkshire Membership & Community Council members: Dawn Pitt, Claire Wilde, Carol Warhan and Will Etherington, Tom Robson and Robert Pepper.  The financial life skills look at budgeting, pay slips, disposable

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Albany School working towards their Eco School Status

Pupils at the Albany Infant & Nursery School in Stapleford, enjoyed their Healthy Choices workshop with Membership & Community Council members: Natalie Smith, Peter Smith and Philip Fee.  Students enhanced their knowledge by learning about 5 a day, portion sizes, labelling, plastics and waste.  They concluded their workshop with the

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Member Groups playing their part

As we come to the close of Co-operative Fortnight, it has been an exciting two weeks with our Member Groups playing their part to celebrate the benefits of being a member of Central England Co-operative. Our groups, from Tai Chi in Ilkeston, the Afternoon Group and Painting Group in Chesterfield,

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Co-op Poem launched for Co-operatives Fortnight

Co-operatives East Midlands launched its Co-operative Poem to celebrate Co-operative Fortnight.  Members were asked to send in lines of poetry about the past, present and future of co-operatives.  This was to produce a short video to be used to promote co-operatives so that people could gain a greater understanding of

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Yorkshire to Llandudno

Members from our New Mill and Shepley areas took advantage of an educational visit to Llandudno. Tom Robson, Chair of the Yorkshire MCCs, along with other Council members, Claire and Will accompanied the members on a beautiful day. Educational visits in the area are run three times a year and

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Card making by our Craft Group

The Craft Group is a member group who normally meet at St. Peter's Church in Derby but during Co-operatives Fortnight both Mary and Dorothy shared their skills with customers at the Littleover Co-op. They showcased their work and achievements that members had produced over the years. What a

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Directors hearing about The Big Sales Difference

The President, Elaine Dean along with Directors Paul Singh and Tanya Noon, attended the The Big Sales Difference event at Derby's Pride Park Stadium. It was a pleasure to be invited to hear about how the business is progressing and to network with colleagues.

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A loud performance by Valley Beats

What a fantastic welcome to customers at the Co-operative Store in Dodworth. Members of Valley Beats arrived to give a loud performance and showcase their enthusiasm for Samba drumming.  The Membership & Community Council has given support for the group. Katie Mallard has been inspirational at growing the group and

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Fancy making a bird box?

Membership & Community Council member, Shirley Bly, trying her hand at making a bird box at the New Mill Co-op store.  Simon Hirst from River Holme Connections spoke to customers and members about their work and the importance of protecting the environment.  Bird box making and wildflower activities were on

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Pledges about making a difference

MCC member Alison popped down to the Littleover store to support Jenny and Maureen from Spiral Arts to celebrate Co-operatives Fortnight. It was a great opportunity to showcase the community groups we work with. The Membership & Community Council has supported Spiral Arts over the years including work in schools

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New artists in Willington

Members and shoppers assisted in a community painting project over a four day period at our Willington food store.  The Willington Arts Committee has designed four sections to be completed each day which will make a portrait of Willington.  The Membership & Community Council has supported Willington Arts for a

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Scrap that Plastic in Shelley

Another great event delivering Scrapthatplastic workshop with Year 3 at Shelley First School.  Inspiring a generation of environmental activists.  Thanks to fairandfunky who have delivered this workshop on behalf of the Yorkshire Cluster Group.

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A Concert of Wellbeing

What a pleasure to have supported the Chesterfield Co-operative Choral Society's Wellbeing concert on 15th June at the Winding Wheel in Chesterfield.  With 3 other community groups supporting from a school choir, a female choir and Wirksworth Community Orchestra it was a fantastic extravaganza. They also provided members

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Health Day in Langley Mill proves popular

Working in partnership with local organisations, retail and funeral departments, to engage with the customers and offer a free wellbeing day.  From fruit tastings to supporting the Society's Charity.  16 people received a free MOT and were able to use the P3 vehicle. MCC members Ollie Pardo and

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Acts of Co-operation

What a pleasure to listen to Ed Mayo, Co-operatives UK Secretary General, who give a talk on Acts of Co-operative.  Twelve cases of early Co-operation and Mutuality. UK Society for Co-operative Studies together with Central England Co-operative supported the lecture at the Secular Hall in Leicester to celebrate Co-operatives Fortnight.

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University research on Social Enterprise and Co-operatives shared from around the World.

An International Research Conference on Social Enterprise took place at Sheffield Hallam University.  This was an excellent event to see how research can influence practice.  There were many workshops from Applying the Fairshares Model, Social Innovation in Education and how other universities from around the world deliver courses on Social

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Educating the next generations of co-operators

As part of Co-operative Congress, Tanya Noon, Member & Community Relations Officer, outlined the number of projects that the Officers and the MCC Ambassadors delivered to a younger audience.  The main project she talked about was the Co-operative Masterlcass for 16 plus age group.  This was a way to engage

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Co-operative Congress and the importance of celebrating

Central England Co-operative's delegation enjoyed both networking and learning form the many different workshops.  From women in co-operatives, Leading the way in a fairer economy, disrupting the disrupters which was about how co-ops were moving into the platform areas to take on big tech monopolies. No matter what

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MCC Ambassadors embracing Co-op Congress

A great opportunity for members of the Membership & Community Council.  Co-operative Congress is held every year and celebrates the wealth of the movement and looks ahead at new initiatives and how co-operatives work better together. Alison Martin from the Northern MCC wrote: "This was my first attendance and

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CELEBRATING CO-OPERATIVE FORTNIGHT

We are always promoting the Co-operative Sector and how important is is to both our economy and the communities in which we serve.  So from shopping in one of our stores to supporting another type of co-operative is beneficial to the Co-operative Movement.  So you can join a Consumer Co-operative,

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MCC Member Tim Adkin talking on Food Justice at the Co-operative Party's Unleashed event.

MCC representative, Tim Adkin, who also works for Action Homeless and works with Central England Co-operative with food bank collections, spoke recently at the the Co-operative Party's Unleashed event about food justice. The day involved discussion and presentations on the Co-operatives Unleashed report on doubling the size of

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Playing our part at Belper Goes Green

There was a great team effort with Membership & Community, Funeral and Retail at a very busy Belper Goes Green event last weekend. They raised funds for Dementia UK through a raffle and gave out fruit pots to encourage healthy eating and wellbeing, as well as using paper cups and

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Community Awareness at The Big One

Membership & Community Ambassadors, Retail, Funeral & Transport all teamed up last weekend to showcase the role they play in the local community of Chaddesden. There were raffles and a tombola to raise funds for Dementia UK, as well as engagement with the public about health and wellbeing at the

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Choose to Refuse

Thanks to fairandfunky for delivering another great workshop with students from Netherthong School on plastics.  Teacher's feedback included: "It was an amazing and a fantastic, engaging and interesting workshop".  The children created a whale to highlight the need to Choose to Refuse single use plastic.  What

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Fun with Soup

Back to basics at Renishaw School, nr Chesterfield with soup making with over 60 students.  The children helped with the preparation of soup, along with their parents, to see how to make soup and the enjoyment of cutting up vegetables.  Help from New Hope, Jacqui with the cooking, Sandra a