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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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Coventry All Saints - Free Groups and Activities
Coventry Book Swap Facebook Group
Coventry Book Swap Facebook group lets you exchange a book you've finished with something new to read.
Check out the Coventry Book Swap Facebook Group. It's a place for people of Coventry and the surrounding areas to swap their books. Just advertise your books and feel free to ask for any books that you'd like to read!
Don't forget to invite your friends. Happy Reading!
Walks in Coventry City Centre
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Warwick Arts Centre
Creative Workshops For Families
3 Oct-6 Dec 2023
Warwick Arts Centre, Free drop in.
Get ready for another season of creative fun at the Warwick Arts Centre this autumn! Drop in to our fun and FREE Family Sundays and Workshop Wednesdays and explore movement, craft, textiles and much more.
No need to book and no need to pay, just turn up and have fun! The fun doesn’t stop here.
We also have a diverse range of activities from Mini Creatives for the little ones to the Out of Whack dance group for visitors aged 50+.
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Tile Hill Community Partnership - West Midlands Mayor's Community Picnic
10th September 2023 2pm - 4pm Limbrick Wood Church Green
The Community Resilience have been supporting Tile Hill Community Partnership to get the resources to run a free community event which takes place on 10th September.
All the voluntary sector organisations have been working together, coordinating activities and organising free food to what should be an amazing free community event for local people.
If you live in the Tile Hill area, come along, everyone is welcome!
The Wellbeing for Life Festival
The Wellbeing for Life Festival returns for a... Continue reading
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The Coventry Holidays and Food (HAF) Programme
The Holiday Activities and Food programme is back this summer, featuring over 150 activities for children and young people between July and September.
Places are completely free to children who receive free school meals.
To book sessions, parents/carers will need the child’s HAF code which is highlighted in the letter sent to their home.Support is available for bookings through the Customer Service contact centre, family hubs, schools, and libraries located around the city centre.
For more information, head to https://www.coventry.gov.uk/holiday-activities-foodCould you Foster With Coventry?
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Summer Outdoor Activity Camp '23 - Coombe Abbey Park
Five weeks of outdoor activity camps will be held in Coombe Abbey Park this summer by Coventry Outdoors Education Service, part of Coventry City Council.
The camps are open to anyone between the ages of 11 and 15. Each participant is guaranteed to have an unforgettable adventure, which will include learning survival techniques, to taking part in all sorts of outdoor activities and challenges, whilst making new friends and having lots of fun!
Activities include:- Combat Archery
- Laser Tag
- Bushcraft
- Survival Skills
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Coventry Community Spaces - Administrative Co-ordinator Role Vacancy
A vacancy has arisen for a Administrative Co-ordinator at Coventry Community Spaces CIC.
Coventry Community Spaces CIC was established in December 2021, the organisation is made up of 9 community centres working and volunteering in communities across Coventry.
Coventry Community Spaces CIC support Coventry communities by running groups and services that benefit the wellbeing of local people. The organisation is looking for someone to co-ordinate administrative functions across the 9 community centre sites.
Deadline for Applications: 16th June 2023
12 Hours per week, £13 per hour plus mileage
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Healthwatch Coventry Photography Competition
Coventry Views - take a photo and share it with Healthwatch Coventry for a chance to win a prize
To mark its 10th anniversary Healthwatch Coventry is asking people to go out in Coventry to take and share pictures:
- Of Coventry Views – pictures of places in Coventry you like, visit regularly or find on a local walk – interesting, more unusual scenes of Coventry
- Featuring the number 10 - pictures in Coventry showing an existing number 10 or one you have created for the photo.
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Coventry City Council Climate Change strategy 2023-2030
We want to hear from people who live, work or study in Coventry, we need your views on the city’s draft climate change strategy
The draft strategy sets out the foundations for creating a sustainable zero carbon city.
The strategy supports the delivery of the city’s One Coventry Plan, which includes tackling the causes and consequences of climate change as one of its three key priorities.
Read the draft climate change strategy, give us your views by filling in our survey and find out more about opportunities to get involved in an... Continue reading
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Coventry City Council Budget Proposals 2023/24
We want to give everyone the opportunity to tell us what you think about our spending proposals for 2023/2024.
We know we cannot do everything we would like to, but we can make sure that we give everyone the opportunity to have a say in how we build our budget for 2023 and 2024.
We need to make intelligent, informed decisions about where to focus our spending to deliver the services that you want us to get right.
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Clothing Coventry
Clothing Coventry is a new charity aiming to support those in need of good quality second hand clothes. They continue to get busier every month. In November they had requests for clothes parcels for 311 people. 71 of those are currently outstanding as we do not have the clothes to help people.
Every item of wearable, season appropriate clothes gets passed onto someone who needs it, they particularly need winter coats for all, men's clothes and older children's clothes.
Free data from The National Databank
The National Databank is providing free data to 500,000 people in need via... Continue reading