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Join us for a celebration of growing and giving!
Some of our school children have been growing fresh fruit and vegetables in the school garden, as part of a food education programme called Young Marketeers (run by School Food Matters).
Now they’re ready to share the fruits of their labour! We’d love to invite you to come and support these enterprising children as they sell their harvested produce on Friday 4 July from 12-2pm outside Coventry Cathedral.
This will be a day of celebration for the children after six months of hard work - growing and learning about food systems and food waste. All the money raised will go towards supporting the great work of Coventry Food Network in tackling food poverty. We hope to see you
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Young People & Smoking and Vaping: Surveys Now Live – Please help us spread the word!
Coventry City Council and Warwickshire County Council are working together to support a Smoke-Free Generation. To do this, they’ve partnered with independent researchers at Social Engine to better understand what children and young people think about smoking and vaping.
We need your help to spread the word and encourage participation in three short, confidential surveys:
- 🧒 Young People (ages 11–18, or up to 24 with SEND) www.tinyurl.com/smokefreecyp
- 👨👩👧 Parents and Carers www.tinyurl.com/smokefreepar (Chance for participating parents and carers to be entered into a prize draw to win £250 shopping vouchers)
- 👩🏫 Professionals working with children and young people www.tinyurl.com/smokefreepro
Your support will help shape effective strategies to prevent young people from starting to smoke and vape and help us to improve services for those already using nicotine products.
👉 All survey links and promotional posters are available here: Stop smoking – Coventry City Council
Please take a moment to share this with your networks, colleagues, and communities. Surveys close 9 July 2025.
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Summer is getting closer …..
Summer Reading Challenge 2025 Story Garden – starting Saturday 5th July 2025 www.coventry.gov.uk/src
This year’s Summer Reading Challenge is all about nature, exploring the outdoors, exploring magical spaces, storytelling - and reading!
Please do encourage children aged 4-11 and their families to take part this summer at their local library
Children who try to complete the challenge receive a medal, certificate, and a small reward
There’s also plenty of themed activities for children to take part in at their library, why not visit !.
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August 2024 Get Involved
Community Safety Plan 2024 to 2026
Have your say on our draft Joint Community Safety Plan for 2024 to 2026.
One of our key priorities as a council is ensuring residents have a powerful voice when it comes to how their services are designed. This consultation is for all our stakeholders to be involved in designing an effective Community Safety Plan for Coventry
Consultation overview
Coventry Community Safety Partnership is a group of organisations working together to ensure that the City remains a safe place. The Community Safety Partnership has identified two main priorities for keeping it safe over a... Continue reading
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July's Get Involved Updates
Save the date, Sports Fest 2024!
Coventry’s much-loved Sports Fest event is set to return with six days of free activities this summer.
Join in activities at Broadgate from Tuesday 6 August – Sunday 11 August from 10am-4pm each day.
Among the activities available will be table tennis, dance, gaming that utilises augmented reality tech, archery and cricket. As always, they’ll be a wide range of sports and wellbeing activities to try out, suitable for all ages and abilities.
Keep a look out for the launch of the full activity timetable soon!
Spaces are still available for organisations to run... Continue reading
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Your Chance to get Involved with the Coventry Violence Reduction Partnership (VRP)
Helen is very keen to work with communities across Coventry on ways we can prevent and reduce violence to keep our children and young people safer. Does your community group have an idea? Do you want to volunteer to help?
If so please contact Helen at helen.kirkman@westmidlands.police.uk
For more information, please see the VRP website https://westmidlands-vrp.org/supporting-places/coventry/
FREE Adult Cycling Training
Sign up for our adult cycling courses to learn how to ride or boost your cycling skills and become more confident on the bike. Coventry’s high-quality cycle network... Continue reading
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May's Get Involved Updates
Get involved in the free HDRC Community Research Webinars
The Health Determinants Research Collaboration is delivering a series of webinars on different aspects of research. Our first webinar was held in April, where Sinead Ouillon talked about upskilling residents to be community researchers. The recording can be found here on the Coventry HDRC YouTube channel. We have several other webinars coming up in June and July – see the links below to sign up. If you would like more information, please contact CoventryHDRC@Coventry.gov.uk , you can also sign up for the newsletter here to keep up to date on... Continue reading
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Clothing Coventry - appeal for men's clothing
Clothing Coventry is in need of donations of good quality and season appropriate men's clothes. Please use reusable bags for all donations and label the bags with sizes.
All sorts of clothing is needed but especially men's clothing.
Examples include: tops, trainers, trousers, tracksuits and joggers, shorts, vests, T shirts, underwear and socks.
All sizes are needed, but there is a particular need for large and medium sizes and size 10 trainers.
Where to drop your donations:
19 Napier st,
Hillfields,
CV1 5PRMonday 10am -2pm
Tuesday 10am -2pm
Wednesday 10am-7pm
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City Centre Community Fair | Priory Visitor Centre
- Date: Tuesday 26th March, 11am - 2.30pm
- Venue: Priory Visitor Centre, Priory Row, Coventry CV1 5EX
- Price: FREE
- Booking: no need to book, just turn up!
Voluntary Action Coventry's third community fair is taking place at the Priory Visitor Centre – please join them for free food and drinks and fun, interactive stalls that illustrate the ways community organisations help those that need it, and how getting involved in your community can help you, too. You could learn to play the steel pans, try games, quizzes and challenges, win prizes, have a... Continue reading
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February's Get Involved Updates
A Research Collaboration based at Coventry City Council are looking for people working in Voluntary and Community Organisations who are interested in co-creating research training.
The Health Determinants Research Collaboration(External link) (HDRC) are working with Coventry University to develop a “community researchers” course. This course will run later in the year for members of the public and voluntary and community organisations. The course will provide training and support for participants to conduct a piece of research in their own communities. The goal of the Coventry HDRC is to improve our understanding about how different factors impact our lives and... Continue reading
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January's Get Involved Updates
Coventry Muslim Forum in partnership with the NHS in Coventry and Warwickshire would like to invite you to a Health and Wellbeing Event in Coventry
Services and information about:
- Long COVID - diagnosis and support
- Mental Health Awareness and support
- Type 2 Diabetes and managing your condition
- Cancer Screening Programme
- Stopping Smoking, Chewing Tobacco / betel nut
- Respiratory Condition Management
- Vaccinations
- Physical Health and Being More Active
- Healthy Eating and Portion Control
- Looking After your Teeth and Gums
- FREE Health Screening Testing:
- - Blood Pressure Checks
- - Blood Glucose Testing
- - Cholesterol Tests
Local NHS staff will be on hand... Continue reading
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December's Get Involved Updates
Budget Consultation 2024/25
We want to give everyone the opportunity to tell us what you think about our spending proposals for 2024/25
Reductions of more than £100m in our funding coupled with unprecedented rises in inflationary pressures and demand for services – 79% of our budget is now spent on social care and homelessness, up from 40% in 2010, this means we know we cannot do everything we would like to. However, we can make sure that we give everyone the opportunity to have a say in how we build our budget for the next financial year of 2024/25.
We... Continue reading
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November's Get Involved Updates
Tell us about your area
We would like to gain local knowledge about what’s happening within our communities, we want to understand the assets and the needs in local areas.
The information you share with us will be used to help inform the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA), and will provide a snapshot of what it is like to live in an area and also look at the current and future health and care needs of local communities.
We would like to know:
What things do you like about where you live?
If you could do anything to improve your... Continue reading