Our Membership and Community Relations Officer, Karen and her team, have been supporting communities in Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and North Warwickshire.
Andrea Rudge, Southern Membership & Community Council member, and myself have been invited by North Northants Council to a number of meetings across the region to look at local area partnerships. The meetings have also been attended by the police and care providers, schools, and churches etc. Th...
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We were again pleased to invite nearby Badgerbrook Primary School back into store their annual visit. 60 children visited the store to learn about food labelling and what is behind the label, from the Fairtrade Logo, to One Water, to RSPCA and British Farm Standards. Once the learning was compl...
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After numerous invitations, Jody from our team who provides all of our admin support, and I finally had the opportunity to visit our Floristry class in Fleckney. There are now four member classes running each week, due to its popularity. Under the watchful eye of our expert Tutor, Sharon McKind...
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Our new Co-operative "Mind Your Money" board game received the thumbs up from a group of young people with learning disabilities. The group is supported by Leicester City in the Community and as part of their programme we offer a range of educational workshops in support of our partnership. Tod...
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On Friday, we supported Green Friday, which is a campaign to encourage everyone to do some something active and enjoy the great outdoors, with the return of our Can't Play Players Football match. This year, were joined by the wonderful Active Women's Group, which encourages women of colour to ge...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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