Presentation to annual parish meeting 30 May 2012

Buckland Brewer Community Shop

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WhoWhatWhyWhereHowWhen

Who?

Committee members at Ashwater

Who

Management committee

Dawn Adams

Barnaby Brown

Beverley Cheeseman-Maund (Treasurer)

Eric Dymond

Janet Few

Beverly Maggs (Secretary)

Peter McClymont (Chair)

Jacqui Watson

Lesley Wilson

Why

Outside public meeting on PO closure, June 2008

Why

After Peter Couchman, Plunkett CEO

Why

Social

Economic

Environmental

Our community can sustain a village shop

If we don't do it ourselves, then no one else will

More than a shop; this is part of our community

What

Community owned and operated village shop

Fresh, chilled, tinned and dry produce

Newspapers, magazines

Stationery

Locally produced where possible

What

Offer what the supermarkets cannot

Service by and for you

Responding to local needs

Catchment area: Buckland and beyond

Keeping money in the community

Complementing Babbs'

Shopping, service and socialising

Reducing food miles

What

Welcombe Community Shop

What

Welcombe Community Shop

What

Ashwater Village Shop

Where

Vestry exterior, Buckland Brewer Methodist Church

Where

Vestry interior, Buckland Brewer Methodist Church

How

“Legal entity”

Business plan

Fundraising

Planning permission

Lease

How

Legal entity: Industrial and Provident Society

Mutual society

Members: one vote

Management committee, voted by members

Shares: £10 each

Can own more than one share

“...for the benefit of the community...”

Source: Plunkett Foundation

Only 11 out of284 shops havefailed in the last 20 years

Source: Plunkett Foundation

How

Funding

Capital startup costs: £22,500Grants: Village SOS, parish council, Bridge Trust etc

(£12,500)

Loans: CCD, third sector banks (£2000)

Share offer (£6000)

Other fundraising (£2000)

Building costs (£40k) – Methodist Church

How

Share sale

Target £6000 by end June 2012

£1820 to date

63 members

Every £10 vital

How

Operations

Volunteer run

Grant funded part-time manager (Year 1 only)

6 days a week, 40 hours +/-

£3.75 per customer

60-70 customers a day

Price competitive

When

July 2012

Planning permission, shop funding secured

August/September

Building funds secured

September/October

Building works

October

Shop opens

What next?

We need:

Volunteers

Another 150 member/sharholders

Volunteers

£4000 in share sales

Volunteers

Your continued support

Volunteers

ThanksMethodist Church

Parish council

Village school

Cllr Alison Boyle

Geoffrey Cox MP

Community Council of Devon

Plunkett Foundation

Village SOS

Torridge DC

Ashwater Village Shop

Welcombe Community Shop

You!

Albert Einstein in 1921, public domain photo

Questions?

Did I forget to mention?

We need volunteers!

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