Chinley Co-op

Our Progress

18-Mar-2022 No Comments

Here are a few milestones towards opening our community shop. Don’t forget our 2nd pop-up shop on Saturday the 19th March 10-4.

  • We became officially registered with the Financial Conduct Authority on the 22 February 2022 as Chinley Community Benefit Society.
  • As of the 17th March we had 64 shareholders (members) and have raised £6650 in community shares.
  • We have been very fortunate to receive £500 from Ruth George’s councillor allocation of grant funding that we have spent on bulk food dispensers.
  • We were very lucky to be able to purchase reused (second hand) nearly new food dispensers for about a quarter of the cost of new dispensers. This in itself is eco-friendly but the icing on the cake was that Scott Jackson (Jacksons Carpets) made a detour on a trip to London in his van to collect and bring the dispensers to Chinley.
  • A further boost has been £150 from the Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside Parish Council to purchase food storage bins.
  • We had a pop up shop on the 5th March which gave people the chance to see the work we have done to decorate and adapt the shop. There was a really positive feeling about the concept of the community shop and we were well supported. We took over £1250 in sales which was a great boost to our morale.
Our first customer

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