Co-op local cause

The club discovered in February 2019 that it had been selected several months earlier as one of Stirchley Co-op’s local causes for the year. The Co-op gives 1% of what members spend on Co-op branded food products in their stores, as well as money raised from sales of carrier bags and Co-op scratch cards in their stores, to local projects. Members can sign in to see the causes their local Co-op is supporting and choose which one they want their own money to go to. The scheme clearly works well – it has raised £19 millions for local causes since November 2017, including over £500 collected for our club before we were aware that we had been selected as a cause. The plan now is to encourage Co-op members to nominate the Club for their donations and to that end president Jim Philbin recently spent a day in the Stirchley store with Lion Norman Softley and Club friend June Softley. Pictures show Lion President with store manager Adrian Boote (left) and with Norman Softley and Co-op staff member Glen Starke.