Horsley Community Shop

05/08/2020

Fat Toni's Pizza's, Horsley Sausages, Ruskin Mill Salad and locally grown flowers. All available today in Horsley Community Shop.

29/07/2020

It's the news you have all been waiting for. As of Friday 31st Duchy Veg is back in the shop. With quality organic veg such as their potatoes and parsnips it's another reason to come and visit. Don't forget your mask!

30/06/2020

We're open for longer from tomorrow, Wednesday 1st July! 🤩

Monday to Saturday | 9.00am – 4.00pm
Sunday | 9.00am – 12 noon

30/06/2020

24/05/2020

Your village shop is OPEN on Bank Holiday Monday, 9.00am-1.00pm. (That's today for those who've lost track of whether it's Tuesday, Christmas or the Mediterranean.)

We've got a shedload of ice creams, which you can eat on the veranda; we've got properly local Ruskin Mill trout and vegetables; and we've got lots of grow-yer-own vegetables and flowers available for a donation outside the shop.

So you don't need to leave Horsley. (Who'd want to leave Horsley anyway?) 😎

07/05/2020

Your village shop IS OPEN tomorrow 9.00am-1.00pm, Bank Holiday Friday. 😎👩‍🌾👨‍🌾

07/05/2020

One of our wonderful volunteers, Horsleyite David Bullock, is the new Chair of Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust. We love the following from the latest edition of Cotswold Life: "Which shop could you not live without? Horsley Village Shop." Thanks a million David!

After retiring as the National Trust’s head of nature conservation last year, David Bullock, now chair of Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, has never been busier

27/04/2020

🐟 ~ Horsley Shop is now selling TROUT ~ 🐟

Spawned and grown in the valley by Ruskin Mill students and staff, this fish is as local as you can get without eating your own goldfish.

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19/04/2020

Don't slog to the shops. Order a Marrows Fruit and Veg Box from your sofa and collect it from your community shop. Make your life a little easier.

Nearly a dozen Marrows Fruit and Veg Boxes were ordered last week and we've had fantastic feedback: fresh, excellent quality and a great variety. The picture shows exactly what was in last week's box.

To order, please email the shop ([email protected]) by Tuesday. Boxes are available to collect on Fridays and cost £15.

12/04/2020

Revised opening hours:
Monday-Friday: 9.00am-1.00pm
Saturday: 9.00am-4.00pm
Sunday: 9.00am-12.00 noon
If you have a question or request, please call the shop on 01453 836662 or email [email protected]. (This page is managed remotely and therefore unlikely to be able to answer queries.) Good health to all.

11/04/2020

The shop is now a collection point for 'Marrows' Fruit and Vegetable boxes.

Marrows is a wholesale fruit and veg company based in Nailsworth. A box costs £15 per week and contains a selection of the following:

2kg of Maris Piper or similar potatoes and a bag of another type of potatoes
Onions, carrots, beetroot, parsnips, swede, cabbage, kale, mushrooms
Salad items such as lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, celery
Fruit, such as apples, pears, bananas.

Please note that this isn’t organic produce and the contents of the box will vary slightly from week to week depending on availability.

If you would like to order a fruit and veg box for £15 please email the shop ([email protected]) before Tuesday. Boxes will be available to collect from the shop on Fridays.

25/03/2020

The Community Shop continues to serve the village, but in line with current guidelines we are putting the following into operation:

Revised opening hours:
Monday-Friday: 9.00am-1.00pm
Saturday: 9.00am-4.00pm
Sunday: 9.00am-12.00 noon

In order to keep our staff, volunteers and customers as safe as possible, we are asking everyone to wash their hands on entering the shop. The facilities are there for you to use.

We ask that only two single people or one family come into the shop at one time and that you keep to the two-metre distance rule.

If you live in the parish of Horsley and you have a cough, temperature or cold, call us on 01453 836662 and we will take your order and arrange a collection or delivery.

We are struggling to re-stock at present because our suppliers cannot keep up with the high demand. However, we hope that this will adjust to normality very soon. In the meantime, please bear with us.

20/03/2020

Together let's support one another: look out for the vulnerable and elderly, telephone someone who you know lives alone, wash your hands, and spread kindness and generosity.

We wish you and your families well.

14/03/2020

Are you self-isolating and struggling with your grocery shopping? Do you know someone who is? Your village community shop is here to help.

Call the shop with your grocery list and a payment card, and one of our beautiful volunteers will deliver to your house.

Please get in touch if we can help:
01453 836662
[email protected]

06/03/2020

While the rest of the world shudders to a halt, Horsley Shop gets on with business as usual. Our shelves are full. Yes, unlike all the major supermarkets (see pic of Sainsbury's this morning), we've got loo paper, paracetamol and our sanity 🥳 .

03/03/2020

HAVE YOU LOST YOUR HEARING AID?

A hearing aid was found along Horsley Fields and is now in the village shop waiting for its owner.

We're also holding a woman's coat that was left in the village hall.

In fact, we've probably got most of Horsley's marbles. Pop to the shop or call us on 01453 836662 to claim your gear.

20/02/2020

Calling all local ARTISTS | Exhibit your work in the community shop!

The shop's gallery, where local artists can display and sell their work, is proving very popular and is booked up well into the future.

However, our exhibitor for March has had to postpone so we have a last minute opportunity for an artist to display their work next month.

If you have work that is ready to display in March and are interested in this opportunity, please get in touch with Sarah at the shop or by email: [email protected]. Thank you.

Alternatively, if you would like to book an exhibition for the future, August, September and October 2020 are available.

31/01/2020

MARMITE MOMENT: Leave it or take it.

Today your shop's mind is drawn to Marmite and an incredibly easy, no-knead, no-nonsense overnight Marmite loaf. Here's a link to the recipe: https://bit.ly/36ELAeV.

Delicious with Italian tomato soup, French Camembert or a German sausage.

Equally good with Heinz Tomato Soup, Cheddar or a Horsley sausage.

All ingredients available in your shop with nary a food mile. 🤪

30/01/2020

Available for use by the community for projects and events: a green felt, three panel display board. Stored in the 3-in-1. Contact [email protected] if you wish to borrow it.

15/01/2020

A whopping 25% OFF Hobbs bread and Godsell's cheeses. Get in!😀👍

03/01/2020

Wayhay, it's the annual HORSLEY WASSAIL! 😃🍏🍎🥳

Who doesn't love a good wassail and a nip of mulled apple juice on a frosty eve. Come and join the revelry!

Saturday 4th January | 4.00pm | Horsley churchyard

*Arrival
*Blessing the trees – and The Toast
*Banging and clattering to scare away the evil spirits and wake the trees from their winter slumber (bring something that makes a loud noise – tins, pans, instruments, bells)
*Meeting of the youngest and eldest
*Circle Dancing with Hazel
*Mummers Play
*Storytelling with Fiona Eadie

Hot mulled cider and apple juice will be served in the church.

29/12/2019

Over this holiday period we're open every day as usual, but we will be closed on New Year's Day.

🎉 Happy New Year Horsley!🎉

17/12/2019

Do you want the freshest veg on your table this Christmas?🎄 Course you do! Order your Duchy organic veg now for free delivery to the shop on Christmas Eve. Yum.

[To print the form, click on it. Next, right click on it. Select 'Save image as...'. Save it, find it, print it, fill it, and bring it to us for your fresh Yuletide veg. 😃]

13/12/2019

Duchy organic vegetables delivered! Also on sale at your community shop, lovely little Christmassy acorn figures.

10/12/2019

Thank you The Hog at Horsley for hosting the shop's volunteers' Christmas party. A noisy evening of delicious food, lots of drink (well, we were in a pub after all), great craic and a brilliant all-things-shop quiz. IF YOU WEREN'T THERE, YOU SERIOUSLY MISSED OUT ON A FANTASTIC VILLAGE EVENT! 😂🎄🍻🥂 Happy Christmas folks!

09/12/2019

Happy Monday Morning everyone 😃! Fresh, local, organic vegetables from the Duchy Estate in Tetbury are delivered to the shop every week.

You can order in advance for Christmas using the order sheet in the shop. Drop by and reserve the perfect Christmas vegetables. 👩‍🌾🥕🎄

06/12/2019

This month at Horsley Shop's Community Art Gallery we're showing work by Isabel Batlle Rocha. Her tiny houses and story boxes are made with natural materials and are battery lit. Come in and have a look.

We are looking to host a new artist every month.

If you'd like to sell your artwork in the shop, please contact us for more info: Sarah or Ben on 01453 836662 or [email protected].

29/11/2019

🎄Does anyone have a small, artificial Christmas tree they could lend the shop? Ours has gone awol 🎄

22/11/2019

We're proud to support local businesses. This month we're stocking the produce of two more:

is a family-run business based in Wotton-under-Edge, supplying bird feed, bird feeders and nest boxes, as well as shelters for bees, bugs, bats and hedgehogs (and squirrels too apparently – like we haven't got enough of those little grey critters).

Well Fed Birds has an interesting page on their website on feeding farmland birds during the Hungry Gap – it's well worth a read here: https://bit.ly/2KAMOjm. And we love the pictures on their page too.

The shop also has freshly pressed apple juice from Inglestone Common, a stone's throw from Horsley along the A46. The Ashmead's Kernel juice is sensational. Honestly, buy a bottle and try it for yourself.

Ashmead's Kernel is an ancient and local variety of apple, first grown in Gloucester in the 1700s. It's a rough russet and won't win a beauty contest, but in the flavour stakes this zinging old timer holds its own. (If you're looking to plant an apple tree, flop an Ashmead's Kernel into your Gloucestershire sod. The fruit ripens late, which means you get fresh, crunchy apples up to Christmas and beyond.)

18/10/2019

TFIFriday! And fresh in today we have a lovely selection of Duchy organic vegetables, plus a fridge full of divine goodness, including local pies and Horsley sausages.

What's the weekend without a Horsley sausage, I ask you. 😀

11/09/2019

'Tis the Grand Horsley Fête, Dog Show, and Craft and Produce Show this Saturday.

Entry forms for the Produce Show are in the village shop and the Horse's Mouth.

Bake a cake. Polish your veg. Teach your dog a new trick. Join the fun!

11/09/2019

This is Pete. He's a fishmonger. An excellent fishmonger.

He will be outside the village shop TODAY, 10.30-11.00am.

Pete has a fantastic selection of fresh fish, smoked fish, shellfish and pâtés.

Come along and see for yourself.

Cash or cheque please, as card machines often don't work when you're a mobile fishmonger.

10/09/2019

We have freshly picked, very local RHUBARB in the shop today. No air miles, no road miles, no nasty chemicals. Grown in clean Horsley soil and air 😃👌. You don't get better than that.

27/06/2019