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We have just heard that Carlisle City Council has made the Hallbankgate Co-op a Community Asset. This means that the shop cannot be sold to anyone else for six months, giving us time to raise funds and make our offer to Scotmid.

Here is the Agenda for the next meeting, 7.30pm on 2nd March in the village hall. 2015-03-02 Agenda steering group

The Minutes from last week’s steering group meeting can now be found under DOCUMENTS.

Thanks to Louise Doran at Carlisle Library for sending us the information about the library link. You can now find this here under OUR SHOP.

Howard Long from SECOD ( http://www.secod.coop/ ) came to speak to us recently and really inspired us especially with news of Nenthead Community Shop which he helped to establish and is hugely successful. He also helped us with the practicalities of what we are hoping to achieve and referred us to 3 websites in particular www.communityshares.org.uk  www.thepowertochange.org.uk  www.uk.coop

Click on the link below to see the Agenda for the next meeting. 2015-02-16 Agenda steering group

I received the Plunkett Foundation newsletter today which gave news of a new lottery funded organisation called The Power to Change which is an independent charitable trust endowed with £150 million from the Big Lottery Fund to support community businesses across England. It seems its fairly new and we wouldn’t be eligible for any funding until …

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