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Our Membership and Community Relations Officer, Tanya and her team, have been supporting communities in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and South / West Yorkshire.
A Derby co-operator has given an insight into what it like working in a Central England Co-op store after deciding to volunteer to ensure communities continue to have access to food and essentials. Joanna West is a part of the Society’s Northern Membership and Community Council and has been lend...
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The Northern Membership & Community Council held its first virtual meeting via zoom. It went really well and everyone enjoyed seeing each other. We were able to conduct the meeting which was great. Some of the Membership & Community Council members are also working in stores, which is fantasti...
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I just wanted to share my re-deployment story with you. Since the outbreak of the Coronavirus, I have started to assist at a food store near to where I live, which is Horsley Woodhouse in Derbyshire. My first day was before the new restrictions came in about social distancing and I had just set u...
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Carol Warham, MCC member and the Shepley Creative Writing group writes: Central England Co-operative has supported Shepley Creative Writing group for about four or five years and we are very grateful to them. The group had actually started a few years before that. We held meetings in homes and ...
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Students from the Ripley Academy took part in a chocolate mindfulness session and also a dementia workshop. It was a great opportunity to learn more about dementia and to become a friend, to enable them to go further with their understanding. The students were most appreciative of the Member & ...
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A Joint Society Faitrade Tea Dance was held at the Burton Town Hall to celebrate Fairtrade Fortnight. Members from across the region came together to share the fantastic dance floor, network and learn from each other. Members from the NEMCO Dance Group in Eastwood had a brilliant time and as we...
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The Yorkshire Membership & Community Council members visited Suma, another type of co-operative formed in 1977. Suma based in Elland, nr Halifax is one the largest co-operatives of its kind in Europe selling vegetarian and natural products to people who want to eat differently - and better. Ra...
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A great joint workshop with fairandfunky delivered in schools to showcase the importance of recycling and how to reduce the use of plastic. The children do a quiz, look at what plastics can be recycled and which cannot and then they design a fish from old materials. It is a great and practical ...
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Fairtrade tastings were a real treat for customers at the refurbished store in Chellaston. Membership & Community Council members talked to customers about the importance of fairtrade. It was also a great opportunity to see how the store had received investment to bring greater services to custo...
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Children from Pinewood school in Arnold and Albany in Stapleford walked to the co-op stores to take part in the Ethical Challenge. This is where the children have to find certain logos within the store. These included the fairtrade logo, FSC, (Forest Stewardship Council), BUAV (not tested on an...
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It has been a busy two weeks of celebrating the great work of promoting fairtrade across the region. From schools visiting stores, attending schools assemblies and fairtrade tastings to a joint Tea Dance and supporting Bala Fairtrade footballs. As an ethical business it has been another year of...
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Central England Co-operative has joined together with its communities in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire to mark a special Fairtrade Fortnight with two weeks of activities. The celebrations coincided with the 25th anniversary of Fairtrade products hitting the shelves in the UK, with th...
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