A new village shop has been hailed as a “real community effort”.
Villagers in Gosfield raised nearly £50,000 to set up a shop in the village playing field car park, which is owned by the parish council.
The portable building arrived in the village last Thursday on the back of a lorry with a police escort and volunteers have been working hard to kit out the shop with food, drinks, sweets and snacks ahead of the opening.
Parish clerk Joanne Beavis, who founded the Gosfield Foundation Community Interest Company responsible for bringing the shop idea to fruition, said: “We will be selling tobacco, magazines, sweets, convenience food, fresh bread and vegetables and we are going to be doing teas and coffees too.
“We are going to be selling stuff on two levels - for the kids because there are three schools in the village and for families."
See this week's Halstead Gazette for the full story.
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