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 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
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
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
Eastern Intergenerational Book Battle A wonderful afternoon at Hildesley Court on Friday with Pakefield Primary School. Get Suffolk Reading delivered a fun ‘book battle’ where Nigel Lungenmuss-Ward read a series of picture books and then together the residents and children discussed and voted for their favourite book. It was a wonderful way to bring
Eastern Working co-operatively in Peterborough is the key to success The Eastern Membership & Community Council which covers the whole of the Anglia region of the Central Co-op, decided to start a new Networking opportunity across Peterborough and Cambridgeshire. This is to enable the groups they have worked with and to branch out to other organisations the importance of coming together,
Eastern Members Friendship Group A very warm welcome to all our members. We enjoy a chat, a giggle, interesting speakers with a nice cup of tea or coffee. Always some biscuits & cake to share too. Easy access for all with some parking outside. £1 entry. We have Elvie from Loddon History Group booked to
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- Dementia
Eastern Intergenerational afternoon for World Book Day Working along side The National Literacy Trust, we supported a fabulous event at Lilac Lodge Care Home in Oulton with 10 children from Oulton Broad Primary School. World Book Day partners with National Literacy Trust who run the local project in Lowestoft Get Suffolk Reading. Get Suffolk Reading inspires families
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 banana, colouring
Eastern Amazing Co-op memories in Lowestoft ‘Amazing' legacy as memories shared at heritage celebration What a wonderful day we all had capturing stories and memories. Highlights included families bringing in photographs and memorabilia of their loved ones who used to work in the Canning Factories and sharing their stories, two former employees celebrating their 90th Birthdays,
Eastern Celebrating Co-operative History in Lowestoft - new date set New date set for Celebrating Co-operative history in Lowestoft Please come and enjoy us on this special day to celebrate the former CWS Canning Factory that once employed over 1000 people in the town. Originally planned as part of the September Heritage Open Day’s festival, the event was postponed
Eastern 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
