We have to start this month’s article with a sad farewell. As mentioned in the May issue, our Chairman, Steve Smith, is stepping down from his post. He leaves us with this message: Having been volunteering for the Village Store...

Having ended the last article with our best wishes for a happy Easter, it is good to reflect on the beautiful weather and chance to spend time with family and friends that the festival brought. Our local shop did great business, selling out of both Hot Cross Buns and...

Back in the middle of March when preparing this article, current affairs were certainly making the prospect of a visit to our bright and cheerful shop, with our bright and cheerful staff and volunteers more uplifting than ever. If you feel in need of a chat and some...

What a dramatic month February was, weather-wise at least! It’s often a fairly quiet time in the village shop with a sense that we are all waiting out the end of Winter and saving our energies for the Spring. But this year the momentum has kept going through the early...

We have at last waved goodbye to January gloom and are still hearing bright words of praise for the team who put such a huge effort into stocking and staffing our village shop over Christmas and the whole festive season. To quote one of our regular customers, “The...

It’s Summer Party, BBQ and family time! At last we can meet for social occasions and you can trust your local shop to have everything you need for a great time. We have burgers, bangers and brioche, firelighters and fizz, coleslaw, charcoal and lots of cakes! You can...

Findon Village Store is pleased to announce it has completed the setup and testing of our online ordering system and it is now available for general use as of March 1st 2021. We have been part of the Village Doorstep pilot scheme who have helped us with the setup and...

We now have some lovely Christmas items in the shop, some of the items include: Festive flavoured instant coffee, these are delicious. We also have traditional liqueur chocolates and for those that like a Christmas liqueur we have some lovely flavoured varieties this...

It may seem a little early to be talking about Christmas but from 5th November the post office will have first and second class Christmas stamps in stock. We will also have lots of Christmas goodies in store for those who like to stock up early. The post office...

As the summer draws to a close and the prospect of the nights drawing in at the end of the month we were hoping to have our new shop awning in place to offer some protection from the elements, especially for those customers waiting to enter the shop under the Covid...

The Plunkett foundation in conjunction with citizens advice have been very focused in encouraging governmental support for our Post Offices, especially those PO’s situated in rural ares. 74% of rural PO’s operate in a community that is without a bank. A fallout from...

As we come to near the end of our 3rd year trading as a village owned store we have been pleasantly surprised that our sales volumes remain strong in spite of people having more choices and better experiences from supermarkets than earlier in the year. We like to...

Since the shop opened 3 years ago storage has been an ongoing problem. We have worked extremely hard to provide product lines to suit the needs of villagers but this has been hampered by the lack of adequate storage facilities. We have now had a commercial cold room...

As we approach the beginning of summer this month and hopefully a continuation of the fine weather we continue to work hard to keep the shop stocked with all the summer essentials. We have disposable BBQ’s, coal and firelighters. We also continue to stock some...

We have been exceptionally busy in April and working hard to implement our new working practices so that we may offer an environment for customers, staff and volunteers reflecting the hygiene and social distancing disciplines needed during the current environment. ...

From Wednesday March 25th we will open the store at 08.30am each day, until further notice. This will help our workforce to get the store and deliveries ready in a safe environment.We are under enormous pressure to keep our services fully functioning (with a depleted...

As we enter the early days of Spring we look back over the challenges that Winter has presented and look forward to the better weather and what’s needed going forward for the shop. Running the business is becoming an increasing workload for the Committee given the...

50 Years ago, in 1969 Harold Wilson was our Prime Minister; the media was full of stories about men on the moon, (the Beatles gave their last public performance; Concorde had its first test flight;) Woodstock happened and Richard Burton bought his then wife Elizabeth...

We have been busy getting the shop stocked and looking lovely for Christmas. We have the usual essential items but this year our buying team have been working really hard to source some very special items. Here's a taster of some of our Christmas food and drink...

Since the questionnaires were placed in the shop earlier in the year we have had many respondents to the feedback survey. The responses have been overwhelmingly positive, with some useful ideas put forward.   One point which has been raised on several occasions...