Community How to make salt dough decorations Follow our step-by-step guide to making these super easy and fun decorations that can be used as tree decorations, present toppers or festive ornaments.
Community Fighting food waste with Olio To create a sustainable Society for All, we're keen to reduce food waste in our stores. We've enlisted the help of Olio to help us manage our food waste more effectively.
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 all.
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 Toy Appeal 2023 Jump into the season of giving with our Toy Appeal campaign. Donate toys at our stores or find a festive event to attend!
Community 10 creative uses for your pumpkin We’ve picked out 10 of the best uses for pumpkins which make full use of these ghastly gourds. Pick up a pumpkin and try out a new creative Halloween idea this season.
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? We
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 Member & Community
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, enjoyed
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 & keep safe.
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 & ladders & the retail
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 group.
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. Will
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 Reflections on Malawi: Vol 3 The final volume of Jane's Malawi visit explores the coffee, rice and macadamia nut co-operatives.
Community Reflections on Malawi: Vol 2 Board Member and former Society President, Jane Avery continues on her journey in Malawi, visiting tea plantations in Thyolo.
News On the menu: Kilombero rice Discover where Kilombero rice is grown, how you can cook with less carbon and our rice dish recommendations...
News On the menu: ONE Chilli Grinders Learn more about the Malawian Birds Eye chilli spice grinders, the latest addition to our in-store Malawi range...
Community Reflections on Malawi: Vol 1 Volume 1 of Jane Avery's visit to Malawi documents the purpose behind the initiative, Our Malawi Partnership.
Community Introducing Co-op Congress, 2023 Sharing an overview of Co-op Congress 2023 and how we're getting involved.
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 tree, tidying
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 us. Wednesday 10th May
