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.
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
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 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-
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
Western Members come Together and Dance for Fairtrade Fortnight Central Co-op members got together this week to celebrate Fairtrade and Co-operation at a special Tea-Dance in Burton upon Trent. Over 80 members from our Birmingham and Eastwood member groups joined together for the event that was compered and led by Pierre, our Birmingham Modern Sequence Dance tutor. The dancers
Western Bike Events prove popular for our communities Recently the Western MCC held two bike events in Birmingham and Stafford during the Autumn half term break. The events in Wildwood, Stafford and Northfield, Birmingham proved a popular choice and many members of our community came along and had their bikes checked with some minor repairs take place. In
Community Co-op Gardening Club Learns About Urban Willow Richard Bickle, MCC Member in Birmingham tells his account of the latest Co-op Gardening Club visit below. On Wednesday evening, member of the Co-op Gardening Club in Birmingham spent an enjoyable evening with Marcus Belben, community activist and local Woodcraft Folk leader, learning about the growing and uses for willow
Community Birmingham Co-operatives present 'Left Feet Forward' Exhibition On 28 October "Left Feet Forward; Birmingham Co-operative Art Exhibition launches at Artefact. The Exhibition celebrates both the history of the Co-operative movement and examines the current Co-op scene in Birmingham. Artefact is a workers Coop art gallery and performance space in Stirchley, a vibrant area of South Birmingham
Community Great Barr Musical Theatre Co-operative perform Cinderella On Friday 4 & Saturday 5 November our very own musical theatre member group perform their pantomime production of Cinderella! The group are made up of dedicated musical theatre members from the community who come together to perform, socialise and have fun. you can find out more on the group
Community Free Bike Maintenance Events During half term two bike maintenance events are taking place in Stafford and Birmingham. The events are free for members and customers to get their bike checked and basic repairs completed free of charge. On Thursday 27 October the team from local bike repair and community bike shop 'Back
Community 'Men's Voices' returns for 2022 Our annual Men's Voices returns on Wednesday 16 November and is once again taking place at Burton Albion Football Club. This years theme is around wellbeing and mindfulness! We have two great key note speakers coming along; Lord Roy Kennedy, member of the House of Lords and Charlie
Western The Woodland Games On 3 September our Central England Co-op MCC member Shaz attend the Woodland Games in South Birmingham. Hear his account of the day below Central England Co-op Western MCC supported the Woodland Games in south Birmingham. The Woodland Games an art adventure that helped the participants learn about ecology and