Our Membership and Community Relations Officer, Tanya and her team, have been supporting communities in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and South / West Yorkshire.
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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A great opportunity for members of the Membership & Community Council. Co-operative Congress is held every year and celebrates the wealth of the movement and looks ahead at new initiatives and how co-operatives work better together. Alison Martin from the Northern MCC wrote: "This was my first ...
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We are always promoting the Co-operative Sector and how important is is to both our economy and the communities in which we serve. So from shopping in one of our stores to supporting another type of co-operative is beneficial to the Co-operative Movement. So you can join a Consumer Co-operative...
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