Western Articles

Our Membership and Community Relations Officer, James and his team, have been supporting communities in West Midlands and Staffordshire.

Sep 17, 2019

A weekend of Fun and Fruit at the Lichfield Community Games

This weekend saw the second Lichfield Community Games take place at Beacon Park in the City. The event supported by Central England Co-operative Western Membership and Community Council(MCC) gave the City of Lichfield the opportunity to take part in activities put on by local groups. The event ...

Sep 11, 2019

Musical Theatre comes to Central England Co-operative

On Thursday last week I met with the Great Barr Musical Theatre Company. This long standing community based group have been using our Co-operative Great Barr rooms to rehearse. The meeting was held to look at the opportunity of the company becoming a Central England Co-operative Member Group. A...

Sep 11, 2019

Western MCC Support Store Community day in Stafford

On Saturday the Western MCC supported Silkmore Lane Co-operative store community day. We gave the community the opportunity to make their own healthy fruit kebab and also learn more about membership and the work we do in the community. During the day we gave the public the opportunity to make he...

Sep 10, 2019

New Central England Member Group YOGA starts in Birmingham

Our newest Member Group started recently in Great Barr, Birmingham offering the local community the chance to take part in YOGA. Nat McCready, our qualified YOGA tutor says... "The purpose of yoga is to build strength, awareness and harmony whilst integrating mind and body. It's not about gett...

Sep 09, 2019

Central England Co-operative support local bash in Stirchley

Recently our Western Membership and Community Council Ambassador and Chair Shaz Rahman supported a local event in Stirchley to promote Membership to the attendees. In late Summer, Stirchley Park host a Summer Bash. Conveniently for us at Central England Co-operative, Stirchley Park is next door ...

Sep 04, 2019

South Birmingham Co-operators talk Co-operatives

Our Western MCC Ambassador and Chair Shaz attended the August meeting of the South Birmingham Co-operatives Group. Below is Shaz's account of the meeting: "Approximately once a quarter, members of various Co-operatives based in and around South Birmingham meet up to network and to discuss ways t...

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