Our Work - Retail Services
Support and advice for existing or new village shops and post offices
Who do we support?
- Village Shops and Post Offices owned by independent shopkeepers
- Community owned shops
- Communities that no longer have a shop and want to set up a Community owned shop
- Communities looking at options for providing and accessing mail collection and other post office services
How we can help?
- Retail and business advice and information
- Mentoring of community groups setting up a community shop
- Funding advice for capital investment
- Membership of the Rural Shops Alliance (through the Community Council for Somerset’s corporate membership)
- Signposting to other support organisations
- Membership of a network of village and community shops
For more information call 01823 331222 email keeley@somersetrcc.org.uk
Additional Help
Rural Shops Alliance: www.rural-shops-alliance.co.uk
Plunkett: www.plunkett.co.uk
Martock Post Office - The house and shop date from the early C19 and made from Hamstone (the colloquial name given to stone from Ham Hill, Somerset). The honey-gold stone contains thin beds of less well cemented material and some small clay inclusions which weather differentially to give weathered Hamstone its characteristic furrowed appearance.
The Community Council for Somerset is a Company Limited by Guarantee, Registered in England & Wales No 3541219
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and is a Registered Charity No 1069260.
Victoria House, Victoria Street, Taunton, Somerset, TA1 3JZ Tel: 01823 331222.
Marketing and Web Design by rob rudd associates