A VILLAGE shop has had a boost with donations from local sources meaning it could buy freezers.
Gosfield Village Shop has also been able to put up blinds to the side of the shop after the kind donations from manufacturing firm Transporter, based on Gosfield airfield, the Maurice Rowson Trust and funding from Braintree Council.
A spokesman from Transporter said: "Transporter is very keen to support projects like this, local to our business and seeing a benefit to the community."
The shop, which opened in July 2015, is run as a community interest company.
It is the brainchild of parish clerk Jo Beavis who led the effort to raise £45,000 to open it after the shop in the village, G and S News in Church Road, which was run by Graham and Sheila Allen for more than three decades, shut in January.
It has now gone from strength to strength and provides essential to villagers and locals, such as sandwiches, newspapers, sweets and dry goods.
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