more pictures here

The event was highly successful raising over £600 for the Village Shop of which £320.00 was donated to Children in Need who kindly loaned the Pudsey costume for the occasion.

A further £50 collected in The Plough was also donated making a total contribution fron the Village of £370 - thank you everyone who supported the day's events.

2008

Ray Challinor, chairman & driving force in setting up our Village Shop in 2001 retired from the committee at the shop AGM Wed April 30th 2008.  Ruth Coulton & Chris Sargeant presented him with an antique map of Bucks as a token of appreciation from the committee for his tremendous service to the village.

Thursday August 23rd - BBC Three Counties Radio visited the shop to record a piece on "how we did it" to be broadcast probably Sunday morning Aug 26th - but we will update once we get confirmation.

Presenter Justin Deeley (pictured below) chatted with Chris Sargeant, Wendy Axe and Sylvia Brown to the background of a tinkling till and customers coming and going.

April 2006 - Hyde Heath Village Shop is recognised in the
Buckinghamshire Ambassadors awards

The Buckinghamshire Ambassadors scheme was launched in October 2004 and is co-ordinated by Buckinghamshire County Council to bring together key people from all walks of life to raise the profile of Buckinghamshire and to promote economic growth in the county.

Awards are given in ten categories at a glittering event at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Marlow on April 27th and the Village Shop was proud to be recognised as runner up in the Social enterprise section.

Pictured here are (L to R) Johnny Ball, presenter, Ray Challinor, chairman of the shop committee, Tony Edwards - Chief Executive Bucks Economic Partnership - sponsors of the Social Enterprise Award & Ruth Coulton, manageress.

For further details of the ceremony and the Bucks Ambassadors click here

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Chiltern District Council report that only about 25% of businesses have yet applied for their new type licences although the closing date for applications is fast approaching - August 5th.  Those who do not apply by this deadline will be unable to sell alcohol from November 7th this year and any late applications will be treated as completely new licences.

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The village shop moved to its new premises in the Village Hall over the weekend May31st/June 1st 2003 and opened for trading at 7.30am on Monday June 2nd. 

A formal opening ceremony was held on Saturday June 14th.

We hope everyone will enjoy using the new shop with its extended product range and off licence - do come along and bring your friends.

Our Picture Gallery records the story from March 2001 when the old post office closed - click on the links below :

The story of Hyde Heath's New Village Shop began in January 2001 when Mr & Mrs Munnoch announced the closure of the original village shop and Post Office to be effective at the end of March that year.

Residents immediately began a campaign, first to try to prevent the closure, but then to create a new shop run as a cooperative to open as soon as the old premises closed.  This was achieved by hiring a portacabin sited in front of the village hall as a temporary measure whilst plans were developed for a permanent site.

The eventual solution agreed was to extend the village hall creating a purpose built shop and new cloakrooms etc  ...  that is now happening !

These pages record the story in words and pictures ..  the "Backgound"   moving the Portacabin in August 2002 and the new works.

For pictures following the progress of building work - click on the "Building works" tabs on the left of the screen or the links above.

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