The Co-operative Food - Freshwater, Avenue Road

By Connecting with food stores and local producers to prevent useable products going to landfill, including food, toiletries and cleaning products, our aim is to use these items by hosting monthly community cook ups at St Saviours Church in Totland and to put daily collections of products at West Wight Sport and Community Centre, made available to the general public on a “pay as you feel” basis.

We are a 72 place Children's day nursery with creche and after school facilities. Established 1992, West Wight Nursery is based on the site of St. Saviour's Catholic Primary School in Totland in its own separate building and is a community nursery welcoming all children between the ages of 3 months to 12 years. Staff at West Wight Nursery provide education and care to meet each child's developmental needs. "Excellent staff interactions and effective teaching techniques ensure that all children's future learning steps are identified and monitored exceptionally well. This means that children make very good progress" Ofsted 2013. Children have free flow access to the outside area daily and are able to mix with children from other groups. We utilise this area to its full potential by developing a planting program in the allotment and using the area of natural copse to promote an awareness of nature. The children also have access to chickens which are kept in our coop in the garden. We have great fun collecting the eggs daily as well as learning to feed and care for the birds. Children also have the opportunity to access the trickle stream and sensory bike track. This enables us to maximise the children's pre-school experiences, covering all seven areas of the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum. Children can attend our after school Fun Club from 2.45-5pm daily during term time and from 8am to 5pm during school holiday periods. We also provide a breakfast club from 7.30-8.45am during term time. Parents are encouraged to stay and play for short sessions until their child is ready to be left in our care. Our toddler group is now being held at Barnado's Family Center Moa Place, Freshwater. We are running the group every Monday morning from 09.30-11.00am (term time only). Meet new friends. Children age 0-4 years welcome with parents/carers. No need to book, just come along. We offer parents use of our sensory room on a Wednesday afternoon for babies and are just piloting a drop and stay sessions with tea and toast for moms to combat social isolation and mental health anxiety. Our allotment is accessed by the Time Bank and we work closely with Totland Parish Council, and other partners such as the Afton Road Coop and Wight Aid who are instrumental in keeping our services available to teh community.

We have existed since 1976 to provide football for children aged 6 to 16. Starting with one team we have progressed to an average of 8 teams per year providing football training and league games . We aim to teach self discipline and teamwork and respect to others. We have had some great achievements during the 46 yrs . We are self supporting and are grateful to our community that help us.