The Sayers Common Community shop gave a grant of £400 to help a local individual’s (Charlotte) travel costs when she visited Sierra Leone to help with the charities that she has contact with. Charlotte gathers donations from Hurstpierpoint and Sayers Common, from private individuals, the Hurst Charity Shop, and the WI in Sayers Common.   […]

Plunkett Foundation   The Plunkett Foundation helps rural communities UK-wide to tackle the issues they face, through promoting and supporting community business.   They helped the shop in the initial concept and development with invaluable practical advice and support, which we are very grateful for.   Rural Community Ownership Awards 2018   Their annual awards […]

26th April 2018 marked the fourth year of business for our local shop.   A lot has happened in this period.   What started off as a venture run by volunteers, we now employ a full time member of staff member and also four part-time staff. Volunteers still play a vital role in our success […]

As a Community Shop, we are committed to also benefiting the community.   At the last AGM (late 2016) shareholders agreed to make reserves available to be paid as grants to local community projects.  We are please to confirm, that following successful applications, we have been able to support the following in 2017:   Albourne […]

Today (26th April) marks our 3rd year of business.   We’d like to thank everyone – customers, suppliers, volunteers and staff members – for all their support in making our community shop such a success.   As a thank you, we are celebrating by giving customer number 100 & 200 a special gift. Happy shopping […]