Our Membership and Community Relations Officer, Karen and her team, have been supporting communities in Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and North Warwickshire.
Co-operative Fortnight is upon us and this years theme is "Mass Co-operation". The Fortnight provides an excellent opportunity to showcase the talents of many of our groups from calligraphy and embroidery to watercolour painting. In the photograph is Jennie Fox, our embroidery tutor, with one o...
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Our healthy choices are always in high demand with bookings being taken for the new Autumn Term. This week we made a return visit to Fosse Primary School, which is close to our Fosse Road Central and Groby Road Stores, where we delivered an interactive classroom session on the importance of hea...
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An extraordinary project in Leicestershire inspired by a popular Channel 4 documentary series and supported by Central England Co-op has been showcased in a new film highlighting its benefits to the two generations taking part. The film tells the story of the Joining the Generations project, ins...
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The Southern MCC support Eco-Schools Leicester, who are funded by the City's Council, to educate children on how to protect the environment, where food comes from, and the importance of healthy eating. Today, we were invited as part of the judging panel and we also donated some vouchers to help ...
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Pupils from Fosse Primary School in Leicester enjoyed learning all about the difference Fairtrade makes to farmers and producers in third world countries and how by buying Fairtrade they can help to build wells, buy medicines and give children an education. They were left so inspired, they are no...
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This week, 150 children visited our Cropston Drive Store to take part in our Shopping on Challenge - 5 classes of 30 visited throughout the morning, needless to say, with the help of colleagues and MCC Ambassadors it ran very smoothly. The Challenge set children the task of an imaginary £15 to ...
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