Village Shop News

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

January

We would like to wish all our volunteers, customers and the wider community best wishes for the New Year. Make one of your new year resolutions to visit your shop and PO more often! We are here to meet your day-to-day grocery and PO needs and to save you getting in your car and driving somewhere else. We need your custom to keep doing what we do.

Thank you to everyone who supported our Christmas raffle. The lucky winners were Joy Duffen, Gill Davies and John Fleming. The raffle raised £184.72 for Weldmar Hospicecare. Thank you!

We have set the date for this year’s AGM for Thursday 12th February to be held in the village hall as usual. Please come along to hear about how the shop and PO fared last year and to contribute to conversations about how we go forward.  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 us more often. As ever, there will be drinks and nibbles.  A new Committee is elected every year and we really need more members so this is another chance to contribute to the way the shop and PO are run.

New residents may not realise that both the shop and PO are run by volunteers and our remit for the shop is just to cover our costs. But, just as with any other business, our overheads, principally electricity, wages for the youngsters who work at weekends, wastage and broadband costs, are increasing. Some of you will already know that, unfortunately, we have had to introduce a subscription charge for our newspaper and magazine customers. This is because we no longer get a discount on our newspaper purchases from Spar and this means a considerable loss of income for the shop and no margin on those items. The charge is only £10 pa and we hope that our customers understand our need to do this.

We have a few of the the sensational 2026 Calendar left and they are now half price, so grab your copy before they’re all gone. This year’s edition is even more special as it includes ‘The Ballad of Briantspuddle’ – not to be missed!

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