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In the News – The article on the BBC website here about our very own Coddenham Village Shop celebrating 100 years. Further info on the centenary below:

The History of:

The Coddenham Village Shop

Also connected:

The Post Office and the Shop

Recent post:

Centenary at the Coddenham Community Shop

Recent post with images:

Coddenham Celebrates the Centenary of its Village Shop

And on Facebook, follow us at:

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And lastly see Coddenham shop 100 years of heritage ‘The Movie’ – below

The CCRG

Coddenham Community Response Group

Our services continue to include:

• This dedicated website: www.coddenham-parish.uk
• A dedicated support email: support@coddenham-parish.uk
• A support phone number: 01449 760313
• A  ‘Have Your Say’ comments section, if you wish to share comment, concerns or encouragement.
• You can also comment on individual website posts or share them with your social media network.

Coddenham Classifieds

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Community Engagement 2023

Some more of the story so far

While a year of political and economic chaos, Coddenham was able to come together even more and demonstrate evn greater unity in the face of adversity (and opportunity).

A refreshed Coddenham Parish Council  was a welcome return to the Coddenham Community Response Group and every member organisation pulled together to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

A ’none of us are as smart as all of us’ outlook continued with the roll out of the Parish Survey, an excellent response and the beginnings of a Parish Community Plan.

Your Coddenham Centre was Suffolk Community Centre of the Year and was recognised as leading Coddenham as ’The Most Active Community’. Along with achievements of all members including  the Community Shop, the Country Club, the History Club, St Mary’s Church and the continued kind sponsorship of the Day Foundation and Gardemau Trusts, huge progress was made.

Environmentally, everyone played a part too and the completion of our Green Space Management Plan  by Suffolk Wildlife Trust along with resumption of working parties, was a significant step in setting a bench mark for our local environment.

Other volunteers played their part across all activities, resuming Open Gardens and the Coddenham Fete. We look ahead to continuing to all work together, developing and actioning a Community Plan and the recommendations of the survey, including leading issues such as traffic and the environment.

We will hopefully come together to celebrate a Coronation in May, plus other events including another Fete. In May a new Coddenham Parish Council will be elected, we urge your participation, engagement and support.

An update on our rolling total of some of the activities and initiatives since foundation in 2020, can be an be downloaded from here We look forward to continuing to work together with all!

With Best Wishes 
The Coddenham Community Response Group (CCRG).

The Latest News from Coddenham

For a full list community information news posts please see the websites NEWS SECTION The Coddenham Community Shop, St.Mary’s Church and the Coddenham Village History Club all have dedicated pages. There is also a link to The Coddenham Centre and a page for The Coddenham Country Club.

More community info

The Coddenham Community Response Group Terms of Reference

The CCRG originally came together because of a community wish to see a local organised response to COVID19. We have built upon that exciting collaboration along with many more volunteers who are helping to provide services and community support. We also liaise with Mid Suffolk Council, Suffolk County Council and local Parish Councils.

We meet virtually approximately bi-monthly or on demand, with notes on all our meetings available on request. We welcome representatives from the community either personally or through this website. We are a loose collaboration that exists solely to serve the community, avoiding political or personal agenda,  always striving to provide the best we can, together.

Our scope and intent is covered in our Terms of Reference and can be found here.

The Coddenham Community Response Group and the Environment.

Early in 2021 we agreed it was in the interests of the community to promote an awareness and response when we could to the environmental emergency. There is no intention to ‘preach’, but to simply support initiatives and share learning on what we can contribute as a parish, to the national movement for a zero carbon country.

The Coddenham Centre and the Day Foundation already have initiatives in place and other members of the group are developing their own awareness and environmental agendas. We have  added a dedicated page to this site to report on progress and publish features on the environment. If you have any proposals or news of your own ideas, please get in touch by emailing support@coddenham-parish.uk.

More community info

Community and local history

Check out the History Club pages. Articles from hundreds of years ago, to the present.

Previously

We’ve previously shared accolades, including the BBC Radio  Suffolk ‘Making a Difference’ Award,  BBC interviews about the village and always cheered each other on. Our volunteers be they in the shop, on our help line, distributing newsletters, working with the Church or Coddenham Centre or maintaining our website, have all played a positive and invaluable part in our all working together.

We are members of the  Suffolk Good Neighbour Network and committed to ensuring the Environment was added to our community agenda. In 2021 we had our First Birthday which we celebrated in a newsletter here.

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The Coddenham Community Response Group 2023