Total Coverage is heading off to Windsor tomorrow for Co‑operatives 2009. The co-operative event is the UK’s biggest and most influential gathering of co‑operatives and this year will be celebrating a “better way of doing business”. It’s promising a packed agenda of plenaries, workshops, forums and debates designed to appeal to delegates from co‑operatives of all types and sizes.

This year sees the launch of the much anticipated Co‑operative Excellence Awards, and the new format for the Co‑operative Debate gives delegates the chance to shape the co‑operative agenda of the future.

Also Co‑operatives 2009 is a great opportunity to acknowledge the valuable and pioneering work of the Co‑operative College, which reaches its 90th birthday this year.

The event, organised by Co-operativesUK, takes place at Beaumont House Hotel and Conference Centre in Windsor and hopefully there’ll be plenty of facilities to fill any spare time between sessions.

Child Safety Week is the Child Accident Prevention Trust’s flagship community education campaign.  It aims to raise awareness of the number of accidents that seriously injure or kill children and how to prevent them.

Thousands of local activities help to make Child Safety Week the great success that it is.  Last year 4 million people were reached through local activities - both big and small.  You can find some examples of the kinds of activities supporters run on the website.

Child Safety Week is for ANYONE working with families or children.  So whether you work in a nursery, children’s centre, GP surgery, school, your own home, in the community, in road safety, in fire safety or somewhere else with children or families, you can get involved with Child Safety Week.

‘Let’s Waste Less’ is the theme for this year’s Recycle Week, which runs from Monday 22 to Sunday 28 June 2009.

This year Recycle Week will encourage people to try something new in an effort to go greener and cut back on the waste we all produce. From recycling more of everyday items like glass and plastic bottles to minimising food waste or composting at home, there are lots of opportunities to promote how we can all reduce the amount of waste we send to landfill.

So whether you would like to promote the recycling of electricals, home composting, on pack recycling information or how to get to grips with food labelling, there are lots of event ideas to run in your area.  Take a look at the guide for local authorities and community groups and see how you can join in this Recycle Week.

Bike Week is the biggest nationwide cycling event in the UK.  A national celebration of cycling, Bike Week helps you get more out of life - by getting on your bike and exploring your local community.

New for 2009, Bike Week focuses on encouraging families to taking up cycling as a regular activity in their local community.  Bike Week is the time to “live local and get cycling”.

Bike Week is free to enter and open to everyone - you can either take part in an event or organise one yourself, you don’t have to be an experienced cyclist either, anyone can set up a Bike Week event.

The Paul Hamlyn Foundation is an independent grant making body, they fund organisations whose charitable activities help people to realise their potential and have a better quality of life.

The Foundation works across three UK programmes: Social Justice, Education and Learning and the Arts. Within each programme, funding is delivered through a combination of Open Grants, to which organisations can apply with proposals for funding innovative activities, and Special Initiatives, which are more focused interventions that aim to have an impact in a particular area. The Foundation also operates a programme of support for NGOs in India

A successful arts economy requires not only great artists, but also talented and visionary people who can enable these artists to make great things happen. Paul Hamlyn Foundation has committed £4.5m over the three years from 2007/08 to the Breakthrough Fund, which exclusively supports exceptional cultural entrepreneurs. Total Coverage has been priviledged to design a suite of leaflets that review the nominations and recipients of the Breakthrough Fund awards.

nef is an independent think-and-do tank that inspires and demonstrates real economic well-being. They aim to improve quality of life by promoting innovative solutions that challenge mainstream thinking on economic, environment and social issues.

With the economic crisis creating an increasingly challenging funding environment for third sector organisations, being able to prove and improve the value of organisations’ work is more important than ever. Total Coverage was commissioned to update nef’s popular Prove and Improve Toolkit. The main booklet - ‘tools for you’ - provides detailed summaries of the main approaches, while the accompanying tool decider and comparison chart enables the reader to quickly weigh up the benefits of different approaches in order to choose the tool that best suits their organisation’s needs. You can download copies of the ‘tools for you’ booklet and accompanying ‘tool decider’ and ‘comparison chart’ for FREE from nef.

Gingerbread is the charity which works nationally and locally, for and with single parent families, to improve their lives. Total Coverage was proud to be commissioned to design materials informing young parents and pregnant teenagers about their benefits and entitlements.

We’re off to The Degree Show at Southampton Solent University this evening to see what this year’s graduates are up to. Total Coverage offers work placements every year for two second year design students from the university. Now that they have completed their final year, it’ll be great to see the two guys that spent their time with us last year.

World Oceans Day 2009 is a powerful opportunity to bring local and global attention to the impact climate change is having on the ocean, what that impact will mean for ocean and human life, and how we can all make simple, important changes to reduce our CO2 emissions, halt climate change, and preserve our children’s ocean legacy. Helping make others more aware of the importance of the ocean in our lives, the opportunities each of us has to help through our daily actions, and by joining with people all over the world in celebrating World Oceans Day, we can make a real difference for our one one ocean, one climate, and one future!

Men unloading stacks of crabs from fishing boats in the Gulf of Guayaquil, Ecuador. 2005. Today on World Ocean Day (June 8), we honour the thousands of people around the world whose livelihoods depend on the seas and oceans.

This photograph is part of a series by Majority World photographer Daniel Patiño Flor, who spent two years documenting the lives of the community living on the islands in Ecuador’s Gulf of Guayaquil in the Pacific Ocean.

Total Coverage was delighted when the Salvation Army Housing Association (SAHA) asked us to write, design and produce commemorative materials to celebrate their 50th anniversary. We designed a range of materials including a brochure, outlining the history of the organisation, which was launched during a wonderful afternoon tea event earlier this week at Hopetown in Whitechapel, London.