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Our Membership and Community Relations Officer, Karen and her team, have been supporting communities in Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and North Warwickshire.

Nov 21, 2022

Oakham Fairtrade Christmas Market

On Saturday, we  supported the Rutland Fairtrade Group with their annual Christmas Fairtrade Market, which takes place at Oakham Castle.  We were very fortunate to have Geoff from our Oakham Store on the day who has an extensive knowledge on our Fairtrade wine.  It is a joy to listen to him share...

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Nov 21, 2022

Member Courses

At the Southern MCC, we run 14 educational classes for our members. We have 4 Floristry classes at Fleckney, and the rest are based at the Salvation Army premises in South Wigston, Leicester. I spent the whole of last week visiting the classes in Wigston – we have courses for Calligraphy; Creativ...

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Nov 21, 2022

Support for Sustainable Schools Leicester

We were again delighted to partner with Sustainable Schools Leicester at their climate change roadshow which took place at Anstey High School last week.  Sustainable Schools Leicester work with schools to help them become more sustainable in all that they do.  We welcomed children from Mayflower,...

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Nov 02, 2022

Wednesday Afternoon Visit

It was an absolute pleasure to be invited to the Wednesday Afternoon Group in Leicester, who meet on the first Wednesday of the month.  It was good to see that some residents from the local assisted living and care home come along to enjoy the activities too. This afternoon, I once again deliver...

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Oct 28, 2022

Cotesbach Co-op Art Exhibition

Our Cotesbach Co-op Art Group are once gain holding their annual exhibition of their artwork, and will be exhibiting almost three years of paintings as much of it stems from the lockdown and beyond.  It was remarkable how this group stayed in touch via digital methods to not only support one anot...

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Oct 28, 2022

Children Learn about Fairtrade

Children at Sherard Primary School in Melton Mowbray had an extra special lesson this week learning all about Fairtrade.  The children have been learning in class how animals are suffering in some environments so we also talked about the impact on deforestation in the rainforests and how it is ma...

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