HALSTOCK VILLAGE SHOP Phone: 01935 891 781

Welcome to Halstock Village Shop and Post Office, run by the community, for the community.

Whatever you want, we probably sell it! If not we'll do our best to get it.

All the basics - newspapers, a wide selection of magazines, Liberty organic milk, locally baked bread from the Evershot and A303 bakeries, local produce including Liberty Orchards balsamic vinegar produced here in Halstock, and some of the best offers on wine in the area!

Plus those irritating odds and ends that you run out of, like batteries, clothes pegs, balls of string, bin bags and reading glasses.

And we don't stop at selling you things! Whether it's looking at the latest topical window displays, checking the football results, picking up your prescription, having a cup of coffee or just catching up on village gossip, we have it.

Shop opening hours : 

Monday       8.00am to 6.00pm

Tuesday       8.00am to 6.00pm     

Wednesday  8.00am to 6.00pm

Thursday     8.00am to 6.00pm

Friday         8.00am to 6.00pm

Saturday     8.00am to 6.00pm

Sunday       8.00am to 12.00 noon

Post Office :

Monday to Friday  Open from 9.00am to 1.00pm

The current building which, was built in 2001, is owned by Halstock Village Shop Ltd, a community owned not for profit organisation. On February 1 the company also took over the running of the shop as a community enterprise.

Any surplus profits are ploughed back into the community through Halstock Village Trust.

The shop has been operating in its present format since 1st February 2013. It is managed on a day to day basis by the manager, Graham Bryan, deputy manager, Donna Hannigan and assistant manager Holly Thea,  with oversight from the Shop Committee of Halstock Village Shop limited. Additional help in running the shop comes from a team of between 12 and 20 volunteers, who generally work between two and eight hours a week.

There has been a community owned shop in Halstock in various locations since 1991.

HOME DELIVERY 

Our home delivery service is now operating on Saturdays for local people who are unable to get out. 

Call the shop on 01935 891781 to ask for details. 

New Year greetings from the village shop

The staff and volunteers at Halstock Village Shop wish all our customers health and happiness in 2025. We have had a very successful 2024, with the reconfiguration of the Community Room, giving increased floor space for the shop. This has improved the shopping experience for our customers and we have seen a significant increase in sales figures.

Our New Year resolution is to keep striving to do the best job we can for a small community shop. We can’t always meet all your needs, but do tell us if you think there is something else we could do, or that we could improve what we are already doing.

We try to strike a balance between selling the basics at reasonable prices, supporting local products like Baboo ice cream and Evershot bread, and stocking luxuries or impulse buys like bottles of spirits and boxes of chocolates. At the same time, we are increasing our range of non food products, on the shelves by the chiller cabinets. The cold weather gear, woolly hats and gloves and socks have emerged from the stockroom and they are to be found hanging on the wall as you go through to the Community Room.

Speaking of the Community Room, don’t forget that it is open for public use whenever the shop is open. You don’t need to wait for the Thursday coffee mornings, you can pop in any time to get out of the cold, maybe meet a friend, and have a delicious cup of coffee from the machine. Buy a newspaper or magazine from the shop, or have a browse of the constantly changing stock of paperback books for sale.

There was a time when we could guarantee cold weather in January, but now it is just as likely to be wet. But whether we are cut off by snow or by floods, don’t try to get out of the village, the shop will be open whatever the weather and you should be able to buy some basics, including torches, candles, logs and firelighters, and you definitely won’t starve!.

Whatever the weather, we hope to see you soon, and keep safe!

Happy New Year from us all.

Diana Staines

For the Shop Committee

Halstock Village Shop Accounts to 31.05.2024

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