Our Membership and Community Relations Officer, Tanya and her team, have been supporting communities in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and South / West Yorkshire.
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 gr...
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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 activit...
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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 includin...
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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 Willing...
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Central England Co-operative members in Ilkeston have been making firm friends and keeping active thanks to a Tai-Chi group that continues to go from strength to strength over a decade since it was formed. The weekly sessions, held at the Flamsteed Centre, in Albert Street, remain one of the Soc...
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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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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. ...
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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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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 Leices...
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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 fr...
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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...
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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 monopol...
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