Village Shop

After the privately run Village Shop in Down Ampney was closed in 1998 , Down Ampney Shop Society was established by the current Chairman Sheila Bull with the prime purpose of ensuring the community would never be reliant on a privately run Village Shop. Consequently it is one of the oldest Community Shops in the county. It was set up as an Industrial Provident Society to provide for the sustainability of the Village by ring fencing future surpluses for social projects.

In the subsequent 13 years, after a tremendous fundraising effort by Villagers, a remarkable £260,000 was raised, which has meant that the retail shop , post office and café were transferred in to an Annex of the Village Hall in the summer of 2010. A strong Parish Plan (2009) and comprehensive business plan, based on successive year on year surpluses achieved by the Society, underwrote the whole project.

The Shop is open seven days a week and is run entirely by volunteers, typifying the dedication and efforts of the past twelve years, and the progressive development of this essential community amenity for the future.

Link to the Shop website at www.downampneyvillagehallshop.co.uk.

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