Whitbourne's NEW Village Shop

    Click HERE for the Whitbourne Village Shop's own new website - currently under development.

Opening Hours

Monday – Friday         8.45-5.30
Saturday            9.00 – 12.00
Sunday            10.00 – 1
We have applied for planning permission to open till 3pm on Saturday and to stay open till 7pm on two evenings.

Contact

Shop tel. number            01886 821867
Shop Committee Chair    Martin Yarnit martin.yarnit@virgin.net  01886 821197
Site Management and Allotments    Kate Lack    klack@lack83.plus.com  01886 821 978

New Shop

The Village Shop has  moved into larger, purpose-built premises funded by a  £250,000 grant by Local Food, a £57.5 million funding programme supported by the Big Lottery Fund, which supports food-related community projects right across the country.

Whitbourne Village shop opened on Saturday 18th August 2007 next to the Live and Let Live. Since then it has established its place in the community with local residents putting in many thousands of volunteer hours in the shop and in back room rôles.

As well as funding new premises, the lottery grant makes possible a number of on-site facilities including allotments, a children’s growing area, and a car park.

Existing services will continue:
• Home Deliveries – minimum order £5 - for people who can’t easily get out and about
• Pre-ordered fruit and vegetables.
We will also be trialling new services.

We are proud of the range of locally-produced food we have managed to stock in the small premises, and with the new grant we will be able to offer more space to local suppliers.

Here are some of our local suppliers:

Ann Roberts makes Churchfields Chutneys from her garden produce.	Gladwins Family Butchers from Bromyard is run by three brothers. They make our quiches and meat pies and supply bacon and sausage rolls.  With larger premises we will be able to sell their freshly made meals such as cottage pies and lasagne.
Noel Knight harvests apples from his small orchard to make juice.	Local farmer Julia Evans sells her pedigree Beef Shorthorns in the shop - as steak, mince, stewing meat and burgers - as part of her drive to increase profitability by moving towards 'farm gate' sales.
Laming's Bakers, in our market town of Bromyard, supply the village shop with bread and some pastries.  The business is run by three generations of the Laming family.	Brenda's bees collect nectar from parish farms and gardens and turn it into delicious honey.   Some of the profit goes to Tanga in Touch to support our projects in Tanga, Tanzania.
Volunteers outside the tiny original shop.  Many people enjoy doing a shift.  Some prefer pricing up or dealing with deliveries.	The shop's First Anniversary Party was celebrated on a glorious day in the adjacent pub gardens.  Here Martin Yarnit (chairman of the Management Committee 2008-2009) welcomes villagers to the event and announces the monthly prize draw for shop volunteers.
The day of the original Village Shop Opening in August, 2007, got off to an unpromising start as customers queued in the rain.	But the skies cleared in time for the shop to be declared open by the oldest and youngest members of the community.

This page last updated January 31st 2013 by John Bland.