Community Shop and Café
Committee meeting last night, important meeting with Power to Change potential funding body today, solicitors hammering out the fine detail of the contract, shop redesign under intense discussion, business plan polished up, everyone’s buying shares – and you thought it had all gone quiet? No way!
Shares in the Hub are selling like hot cakes – get yours now! More than 60 people have already bought shares, and at the last count we have raised enough money to buy the shop from Scotmid. The share prospectus was distributed to every house in the parish in July, and the response has been …
This is your opportunity to volunteer for the Hallbankgate Hub, tonight at 7.30pm in the village hall kitchen, where you will find lots of information and refreshments.
This is where we pass round the hat: we need to raise the purchase money for the shop in order to get the business up and running as soon as possible. If you live locally a share prospectus will be delivered to your door. If we miss you out by mistake, or you live further …
The Hallbankgate Fete will be at the school, 12 till 3pm on Saturday 4th July. There will also be an Open Evening for people interested in volunteering their time and/or investing in the Hub project, in the village hall from 7.30 pm on Tuesday 7th July.
We will have a stall at the Hallbankgate village school fete this Saturday 4 July, where you will be able to pick up a copy of the share prospectus inviting everyone to invest in the future of our shop.
At last, we are able to say that “we are firmly on course to purchase the shop premises, subject to final agreement and contract”.
Because we are in endgame negotiation with Scotmid, we cannot give out much information just now. But we had a very positive meeting of the management committee last night. We are still hopeful of doing the deal, as this is our best chance of making the Hub a success – starting with the existing premises, and …
The minutes of the last two meetings, on 20 and 25 April, can now be found on the Meetings page.