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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.

Apr 24, 2019

Scrap that Plastic - Upperthong School children co-operating and taking little steps to change the world!

“The Yorkshire Cluster Group supported the workshop and its vision is to make a real difference to our members and their communities. Co-operation, teamwork and self-development underpins everything that we do, which is why we want to support the people in our communities to learn, develop and ac...

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Apr 24, 2019

Supporting the Wooldale Allotment Association

The Yorkshire Cluster Group has supported a number of projects at the allotments, behind the Wooldale Co-op store. These have ranged from financial support to bring the allotments into a more accessible area, colleague support to visit and learn more about types of fruits and vegetables grown and...

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Apr 24, 2019

Yorkshire Cluster Group agreeing funding applications

The Yorkshire Cluster Group met today to approve funding to be spent in the area on various projects. These ranged from the fantastic plastic workshops provided by fairandfunky, activities for children to improve their knowledge of science at libraries in Dodworth and the Central Library and how ...

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Apr 13, 2019

Which Fairtrade Egg will you choose?

It has been a pleasure to ensure some local community groups have received Fairtrade Eggs.  I wonder which one will be the most popular? I am looking forward to trying the orange flavoured one.;

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Apr 13, 2019

Holiday time for some of our member groups.

Due to the holidays our groups are closed but re-start from 29th April.  If you wish to attend any of our groups from Keep Fit in Retirement, Tai Chi, Dance, Painting Groups to Afternoon Groups, get in touch. members.community@centralengland.coop;

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Apr 13, 2019

Members from Shepley enjoyed their Educational Visit to Nottingham

Members from the Yorkshire areas of Shepley and Wooldale enjoyed their educational visit to Nottingham.  They were able to explore the beautiful city and engage in the Robin Hood experience.  Some members visited the caves and the Galleries of Justice, others enjoyed finding the oldest pub - Ye O...

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Apr 13, 2019

Co-operatives East Midlands - Planning its event on 1st July in Leicester to celebrate Co-operatives Fortnight - why not come along and shape Co-operative education for the future.

Co-operatives East Midlands has an event for Monday, 1st July, 2019 10am - 1.30pm on the future of Co-operative Education.  We have speakers lined up from the Co-operative College, Vaughan College, the WEA (Workers' Educational Association), Co-operative Learning Trust and Consumer Co-operatives,...

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