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Community Facilities

Community-owned shops: from Ambridge to Hillswick

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Details: Tuesday, 15 December 2009 11:53 Tamsin Morris Hits: 421

Is it a case of art imitating life, or the other way round? Just as the residents of Ambridge (the village in the Archers, for those of you who get out more than I do!) start to take forward the idea of community ownership of their shop, so the community-owned shop in Hillswick, Shetland, opens for business.

Whilst there'll no doubt be plenty of twists and turns in the Ambridge path to community ownership, the shop in Hillswick has already been completely refurbished by the locals. It opened for business at the end of November, with a full-time manager employed by the shop committee. You can find a directory of community shops throughout the UK on the Plunkett Foundation website and there's further information on the Hillswick shop included in a recent article in the Shetland Times.