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Tamworth Co-op launches scheme to feed the birds

The Tamworth Co-operative Society’s funeral division has embraced the spirit of a popular Mary Poppins’ song by launching a community initiative to ‘feed the birds.’

Glascote to get a bigger and better Co-op convenience store

Tamworth Co-operative Society says the conversion of a former Glascote pub into a new convenience store will preserve the character of the building while boosting the area’s shopping and parking facilities. Planning permission was recently granted for the Society to relocate its existing Glascote food store to the nearby pub site and residents are being assured of a ’sensitive’ development.

Dosthill to benefit from a new Tamworth Co-op store

Tamworth Co-operative Society bosses say a new convenience store to be built on the site of the former Dosthill Cosmopolitan Club will boost the area’s facilities and create around 20 jobs. The modern store will stock a wide range of fresh food products and will have its own 22-bay parking…

Tamworth Co-op is first to sign up to memorial website

Tamworth Co-op will be the first funeral provider in the UK to offer its customers a free ‘address in heaven’ for their loved ones. The new digital memorial platform will revolutionise the way people are celebrated after death – and even how funerals are organised and managed. Tamworth Co-op bosses…

Negative national press reports have nothing to do with us’

Tamworth Co-operative Society is reassuring its customers and members that it is a separate business to the beleaguered Co-op Bank which has been attracting negative headlines. Chief Executive Julian Coles says the Tamworth Co-op is in good financial shape and should not be tarred with the same brush.

Have you planned your farewell to the world?

The general manager of Tamworth Co-op 's funeral division says the recent 'Dying Matters Awareness Week' served as a timely reminder for people of all ages to plan their own funerals. Amanda Woodward, who heads up a 35-strong funeral team, believes 90 per cent of local people die without having discussed, never mind planned, their final goodbye.