Category: Village Store
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A Big Welcome To Our Brilliant Joint Managers
We’re really excited to announce that we’ve just appointed our joint shop and café staff managers – Teresa Tucker and Felicity Cross. They’ll be leading our team of volunteers and we’re extremely fortunate to have found two people with such a wide and diverse range of skills, great personalities and genuine enthusiasm for community life.…
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The Pavilion Stores and Café is springing into action
Spring is here, the sun is out (well, sometimes), the sap is rising and Parracombe’s very own community shop and café is poised to make its long-awaited debut. It is hard to believe that we started construction work a year ago. The pandemic and related problems obtaining building materials have been major challenges we weren’t…
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Vacancy – Pavilion Stores and Café
Parracombe Community Trust (PCT) is very excited to be launching the ‘Pavilion Stores and Café’. We are now seeking to appoint a Manager/Volunteer Coordinator. Do you have a genuine interest in working with the general public? Are you self-motivated with strong interpersonal skills? Are you passionate about delivering the best level of customer service? The…
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Trust Launches Crowdfunder
Help us fit out the café Our share offer raised a little over 86% of our target, what a fantastic result! We still need more to give the project the best possible start. For friends, family and Parracombe supporters who want to help out we have created a Crowdfunding page with the Aviva Community Fund. The…
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Trust Launches Community Share Offer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdgNruXdoxAParracombe Community Trust are excited to launch our community share offer for our shop and café. The share offer is to raise funds to re-purpose and extend the sports pavilion located on the Coronation Playing Field to create a shop and café that will provide quality fresh local food, essential local services and a social…
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Notice Inviting Expression of Interest
This notice invites expressions of interest to tender for the construction of Parracombe Community Stores. Background Parracombe Community Trust Ltd. is planning to build a new community run shop in Parracombe village. The project is a social enterprise of the trust that will convert and extend the Pavilion building located in the Coronation Playing Field,…
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Village Stores Update June 2020
Since the last update in February, despite the disruption, we are moving ahead with our plans. However, the lock-down came in before we could arrange a physical meeting of the new committee to formally constitute. The new committee will be embracing the new norm of online meetings and will be electing a new chairperson, secretary…
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Community Stores Update Feb 2020
It’s been a while since the committee has put out an update of progress but that’s not to say progress is not being made, perhaps more slowly than we would like. Our main goals have been to finalise the business and financial plan, without which we will not be able to move forward with funding,…
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Trust Committee Volunteers
Volunteers are needed to form the three committees which will steer and manage Parracombe Community Trust’s main projects – the village hall, a new community shop and six new affordable homes.