Village Shop News

February

This year’s AGM will be held on Thursday 12 February at 7.00pm in the village hall. Please come along to hear about how the last year has been for the shop and PO and to make your contribution to conversations about how best manage our current challenges and how we move forward.  Your thoughts and ideas would be most welcome. Even if you are not a regular customer, we would like to hear your views and see whether there is anything we could do to persuade you to visit the shop and PO more often. A new Committee is elected every year and we really need more members so please consider joining us – this is another chance to contribute to the way the shop and PO are run. As ever, there will be drinks and nibbles.  

We always need more help and an increasing amount of work is falling to just a few of us and this is not sustainable in the long run. Tasks such as organising the shop rota, collecting stock, keeping a check on prices in the shop and even writing this monthly article need not be done by a member of the committee and it would be a great help if some of these discrete tasks were taken on by someone else. Please consider whether you could spare an hour or two a week to help keep the shop ticking over.

Next year will be the 25^th anniversary of establishing the shop and PO as a community enterprise. Please come to the AGM to hear about one idea we have about how to mark this event and consider what, if anything, we might do as well.

It is your Post Office and Shop. Please support it, either as a customer or as a volunteer. Preferably both!

Opening Hours

Shop: 9.00am – 12 noon Monday to Saturday and 10am – 12 noon on Sunday.

PO: 9.00am – 12 noon Monday – Friday.

Help with deliveries – could you lend a hand?

We receive a delivery once a week for our grocery items. This is every Monday at approximately 4:30pm. We have a small team of volunteers who work in pairs to meet the delivery, add the items to the stock system and restock the shelves. It takes approximately an hour. We would really appreciate more volunteers to join the team and help spread the load of this task. It’s not complex, just requires care and attention. Let us know if you’d like to help or would like more details.

Join the committee

If you might be interested in being co-opted onto the committee or would just like to know more we’d love to hear from you. See the Shop Committee page for further information.

If you would like more information about about how you can help keep the shop ticking over, please get in touch. You can telephone the shop on 01929 472000,  e-mail briantspuddle.shop@gmail.com or pop in and see us. The Shop is a vibrant and valued village resource, not only for buying your essential supplies but as a meeting point to have a chat. You never know when you might need it!

The Shop is open Monday – Saturday 09:00 – 12:00, Sunday 10:00 – 12:00