The 2008 No Smoking Day will be on Wednesday 12 March and will be the 25th No Smoking Day. This year’s campaign theme is ‘The Great No Smoking Day Challenge’ and is an acknowledgement of the really tough challenge that quitting smoking is.
The Great No Smoking Day Challenge helps individual participants become part of a […]

The Co-operative offers the widest Fairtrade food range available, and throughout Fairtrade Fortnight (25 February to 9 March 2008) will be knocking 20% of all Fairtrade retail prices. The prices paid back to producers remain the same so whether it is wine, bananas, bags or chocolate, there’s never been a better time to choose […]

It’s Fairtrade Fortnight from 25 February to 9 March 2008 and every day during the two weeks coffee drinkers at Total Coverage will be sampling some of the fairly traded instant coffees that are currently on the market. So far we have 6 different ones to try. We’ll let you know what we think […]

The second edition of City Focus has just been published. This edition of the sixteen page newspaper, fully produced by Total Coverage for Portsmouth City Teaching Primary Care Trust and Portsmouth City Council, tackles the issues of health and well-being in the Portsmouth area. The publication is currently being delivered to around 90000 homes in […]

We have recently updated our Ethical and Environmental Statement. Please have a look at http://www.totalcoverage.coop/ethical.html

Almost half of the clothes in Britain’s wardrobes go unworn, a new survey from Oxfam and Marks & Spencer has shown.
A YouGov report, commissioned to mark the first day of the M&S and Oxfam Clothes Exchange, shows that 46 per cent of people’s clothes - an estimated 2.4billion items - have sat gathering dust on […]

At the weekend I attended the first Future Co-operatives? conference organised by Co-operative Futures. Throughout the weekend I was involved a number of themed workshop sessions, discussing topics such as, how the movement can encourage new types of co-operatives and implications for businesses and communities on climate change.
The weekend gave me an opportunity to […]

During National Storytelling Week 2007 over 1040 nationwide storytelling events and performances were organised, including The V&A, North Tyneside Disability Forum and Lakeside Shopping Centre and Rockingham Castle, Storytelling Clubs, smaller individual events and over 780 schools.
We know that storytelling stretches from its simplest application in the nursery right through to personal stories and bereavement […]

Help The Woodland Trust reach their 2008 target of recycling 100 million cards to plant 24,000 trees by recycling YOUR cards from 2-31 January. Take your cards to any mainland WHSmith store, TESCO supermarket, TK Maxx store and M&S.
The scheme is primarily designed for individuals to participate, businesses and organisations can also lend support by […]

The Festival of Winter Walks, organised by the Ramblers’ Association is an annual event with many hundreds of walks happening across England, Scotland and Wales between 26th December 2007 and 2nd January 2008. With routes ranging from three to ten miles, all with experienced walk leaders, it is easy to make regular walking a New […]