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Sheepwash Community Shop and Post Office News Thank You Margaret and Paulette! Many thanks to Margaret Hall and Paulette Jackson for their many years of service as shop volunteers. They stood down at the beginning of June. Generous donations from lots of people in the village and parish meant that we were able to present them with bouquets and dinner and drinks vouchers for the Half Moon as some measure of our thanks. Lots Happening in the Shop Jen Rowlands started working for the shop in the middle of June. She acts as Caroline’s assistant and works for ten hours a week. She also volunteers for another couple of hours a week. Jen has a lot of retail experience, both in running her own business and working for larger retailers. She and her partner and family moved down here, to Buckland Mill, last January. We’ve now got Paul Wheeler, Jan Hayward, Sue and Pete Reader, Simon and Helen Crossley, and Alison Ansell as volunteers, and Bruce Knight is training. And, not to be forgotten, Roger continues to volunteer – call in to see him first thing on Wednesday mornings, particularly if you like to chat about football. What we want to do in the shop is sell what you want to buy at reasonable prices. We’ve made great progress with buying online from our main wholesaler, Bookers. Buying online means that we take advantage of offers – come in and you’ll see lots of price-marked goods at very competitive prices. We are grabbing offers elsewhere when we see them, and looking at offering local beers. The wine range has expanded, and now includes Vina Sol and Prosecco, and we stock a bigger range of cheeses including a Cheese of the Month! There are some DIY bits and bobs, new energy bars, tasty fishcakes, Green & Black's chocolate, doggy biscuit treats, proper Schweppes tonic, coleslaw, tartare sauce, and lots more! Most of these are either the same as you would pay in a supermarket or only a few pennies more. In fact, sometimes we are cheaper - our Happy Shopper antibacterial handwash is better value than Asda’s own brand! 18
Are there products that you’d like to see in the shop that we’re not selling? Let us know and we’ll see what we can do. We think that locally sourced goods are important to you. Is that true or not? Here are some of our local suppliers: Hallwood Veg – we have a regular order from Hallwood, but why not come in and have a chat with us to find out what’s in season from Hallwood. We can order it for you – they deliver Tuesdays and Fridays. They also do veg boxes, which you can order regularly or occasionally. Our bread, pasties, cakes and pastries come from two suppliers – Endacotts and Country Cottage. We obviously can’t stock everything that these bakers offer, but you might like us to order something new or special – come into the shop to see their brochures, or have a look at their websites - www.endacottsbakery.co.uk and www.countrycottagebakery.co.uk. Fish – Dan the Fish Man is at Hatherleigh Market every Tuesday. You might want to visit him there, or you can order through the shop – we collect your fish, and you pay exactly what you would if you went to his stall. Cheese, salami, pate, taramasalata and humous are ordered from Hawkridge. They offer a wide range of other things that you might like to try - pop into the shop to see their brochure, or have a look at www.hawkridge.uk.com. Our bacon and ham comes from the Cornish Farmhouse Bacon Company. There might be other things from them that you fancy trying – again, there’s a copy of their brochure in the shop, or visit their website at www.cornishfarmhousebacon.co.uk. The yogurt and ice cream that we stock comes from Stapleton Farm at Langtree, near Torrington. We can order some different flavours, so have a look at their range in their brochure in the shop, or have a look on their website at www.stapletonfarm.co.uk. Keeping you informed We want to keep you up to date about new products and improvements in the shop. The best way for you to do this is to come into the shop, have a chat, and look around. We’ve also got this Talking Shop page here in the Chronicle, which is great when an issue comes out, but that’s only once every two months. For Facebookers we’ve got a Shop Facebook page. If you don’t do Facebook, don’t despair - we’ll regularly put notices up on the village notice boards. In the Post Office We were successful with our application to run the Post Office in Sheepwash. Sorting out the contract with the PO Ltd has taken longer than we hoped (forms, red tape, and bureaucracy, and forms - did I mention forms?). The plan is that the branch will transfer to Sheepwash Community PO and Stores CIC (Community Interest Company) on 9 th August, after which the PO Ltd will provide six days of on-site support. By the way – here’s some info about some of the services that our Post Office offers. With many high street banks closing, it’s more and more difficult to deposit cheques – if you bank with Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, Nat West, or many others, you can deposit cheques at Sheepwash PO. Similarly, withdrawing cash is easy, whoever you bank with. Just ask if you’re not sure – the answer will probably be, “Yes”! Foreign exchange – euros are available on demand. For other currencies, if we haven’t got it in stock, we can get it the next day. And if you don’t spend all of the currency you withdraw, you can exchange it back without paying any further commission! If you need to budget, consider using a PO Budget Cardplus. You can save whatever you like, from as little as £2 at a time, and use the money to pay a multitude of utility bills, council tax, or road fund licence. And from November until the end of January it is accepted at a whole host of major retailers like Argos, Currys, Boots, etc. – very handy for Christmas! Full details are available at the Post Office. 19
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