Flintham Community Shop
Flintham benefits from “Shop in a Box” scheme
When a community loses their local shop they lose a major asset and often the “heart” goes out of the village. Combined with inadequate transport provision, the lack of a shop can lead to very real problems of social exclusion to rural people, particularly disadvantaged young and old people.
The Nottinghamshire Rural Community Council (RCC) has developed a plan to restore retail provision for villages when the shop closes. The “Shop in a Box” repackages the traditional village shop into a modern form housed in a portable building which can simply be delivered to the heart of the village and thus overcome the major problem of finding suitable premises.
The new concept will provide essential grocery/household provisions and locally produced farm and craft products. But by operating as a community shop it can also provide a service to the community, in the form of a meeting point and resource/IT facility in the heart of the village open throughout the day and into the early evening.
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