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We are just 48 hours away from the Christmas Shopping Event Evening at Woodgreen Community Shop!
There will be the usual hot mince pies and mulled wine, together with Hale’s Angels carol singing whilst you shop for your festive goodies, but, new this year……….wine tasting with our expert wine supplier, enabling you to taste before you buy!
Come and join us on Thursday 7th December from 5pm - 7pm.
Save the date folks for the Christmas Shopping Event at Woodgreen Community Shop!
New this year - wine tasting with our expert wine supplier! A chance to taste before you buy your festive tipple - hope you can join us!
Look what was delivered today!
Thank you Thank you Thank you to all my hard working team.
This is just the good news I needed this morning to cheer me up on a grey wet day.
Very busy day at the shop with lots of deliveries. Look at our new range of sandwiches, wraps & pasties. We also had another delivery of our very popular slices! The pasties, slices, sausage rolls, soup pots & snack pots can be warmed up in the microwave just ask at the counter. Absolutely perfect for the colder day.
We are able to offer these snack items that can be zapped in our microwave for a delicious warm snack or you can eat straight from the fridge or take home and pop in your oven. Our quiches from the same supplier are always a sell out and these I have to say are great.
Let us know what you think!
Flavours at the moment
Creamy chicken & chorizo
Curried butternut squash
BBQ pulled pork
Steak & Cheese
Low welfare eggs from caged hens are flooding the UK. Caged hens also known as supposedly enriched caged hens are not only from overseas but are sadly still kept in these conditions in the UK.
At Woodgreen shop we are pleased to say our eggs we supply to you are produced locally from small well managed free range flocks. Food for these hens are supplied by local farms using local food therefore providing minimal food miles and importantly a short supply trail.
We prefer our hens to look more like these lucky ladies and not the latter.
We are restocked!
Our milk supplier has switched to milk cartons (Pure-Pak) from plastic on 1 pint semi skimmed, full fat and 1 litre semi skimmed & full fat.
Certified carbon neutral packaging
C02 emissions related to this packaging have been reduced to zero
Milk carton largely made using paperboard a natural and renewable resource from responsibly managed forests
Carton easy to recycle and can be used to produce paper tissues, tiles or furniture
Tethered closures will help reduce chances of plastic lids ending up on beaches and in oceans.
Let’s hope they can follow suite with the larger sizes of milk in the meantime you could buy more of the cartons take two instead of one!
Autumn leaves and pumpkins please.
Look what has arrived at the shop today! whether you like to carve or make a pumpkin soup come and support your local community shop.
The 16th AGM for the shop was held on 6th September and we have posted all the relevant documents for you to read on our website. There are reports from Julia Harding (Chair) and Gary Adams (Treasurer), and for a spot of light reading our full accounts are available to view!
Pop over to our website on http://www.woodgreenshop.org to view all the documents.
Look what we have today!
Please note that tomorrow, Wednesday 13th, the New Forest Drift will be taking place around Woodgreen.
This is a note from New Forest Roads Awareness:
Wednesday 13th - WOODGREEN/GODSHILL area.
All the roads around this area including the B3078 will be affected. If you are asked to slow down or stop, please respect the marshals asking you to do so.
Friday 15th - SLUFTERS area.
This is the road from Bolderwood to the High Corner Inn area. All car parks and cycle tracks are closed. There are signs stating this and we ask you to obey them.
Please avoid the area if you are in a hurry. Abuse to walkers will not be tolerated and you can and will be reported.
Pannage season officially starts today - 11th September - so you may start to see pigs out in the New Forest.
Pannage sees commoners practise their ‘right of mast’ by turning pigs out each autumn for a few weeks. The pigs hoover up fallen acorns which are poisonous to ponies and cattle.
As with all Forest livestock, please pass wide and slow, and thank you for not touching, approaching or feeding the pigs.
Tomorrow, Saturday 9th September is World First Aid day - an opportunity to raise awareness about the importance of first aid; particularly important with the hot weather we are currently experiencing. The shop has everything you need to keep cool - lots of cold drinks and ice creams with a shady place to enjoy them - but, in all seasons there is a good stock of tablets and ointments, and plasters for those cuts and scrapes
Most importantly of all - did you know that there is a defibrillator outside the shop?
Woodgreen Community Shop AGM will be held on Wednesday 6th September at 7pm in Woodgreen Village Hall.
We have two vacancies for Committee Members - do please contact our secretary (Sue Manktelow by email - [email protected]) if you might be interested in joining us to support this valuable community asset. We look forward to welcoming you and hope you can join us for a drink afterwards.
BREAKING NEWS……..
………no duty increase on wine from Woodgreen Community Shop!
We’ve taken care to manage our stock holding of wines and buy ahead of the duty increase, so all our wines will remain at the pre-duty prices for the next few weeks. So when the sun comes back next week and you’re ready to fire up the BBQ, head on down to us for your wine. We have a few bin end reductions too!
Four lovely customers watching the world go by!
We are sorry to say that we can no longer offer Fish and Chip takeaways.
Tony has advised us that he will no longer be including Woodgreen on his rota, so for now no further fish and chip suppers to collect at our shop on Saturdays.
If we find a replacement we will let you all know.
Look at our range of vegetarian & vegan produce! One customer commented you have a better range than ……..a certain large supermarket…..
Don’t forget Father’s Day this Sunday, 18th June!
We have lots of gifts and cards to choose from, including our new ALTER/NATIVE range by Suma - cruelty-free body care range especially for men!
This week has been Volunteers’ Week and is the perfect time to thank the very many volunteers who help us out in so many ways each and every week.
You are what makes our shop so special and a true ‘Community’ shop. Thank you!
Everyone’s heading to the shop to stock up on necessities and luxuries for the half term week!
There are so many young foals around at the moment, and they are a huge part of our village landscape. However, please remember to admire them from a distance, so they have the chance to enjoy their Forest, and are not enticed onto the roads by petting or feeding.
There will be no Fish and Chips at the shop this evening as Tony is doing a 100 mile sponsored bike ride - London 2023 - for Wessex Heartbeat, a charity which supported him and his wife, Lorraine back in 2021.
We wish Tony all the very best for today’s ride! 🚴♂️🚴♂️
Local gin from Downton Distillery!
We now supply Explorer’s Gin, distilled and bottled in Downton - their first released gin, capturing the ‘Spirit of Adventure’ with western red cedar providing the backbone.
We also sell refill packs which help both your pocket and the environment.
What better way to unwind on a sunny evening!
Today we were very pleased to officially open our ”Coffee and Cake” area! Made possible by a generous legacy from a long time Woodgreener, Peter Arnold, the bunting was cut by his sister, Jean, with friends from the village and beyond and family present. It is wonderful that a dedicated area in memory of Peter, who loved to sit with a coffee after getting his shopping, can now be enjoyed by many.
We also took delivery of a bench, in memory of Peter and his wife Sheila, which was given to Peter by the villagers to celebrate his 80th birthday, and which can be enjoyed by villagers on sunnier days as they tuck into delicious cake and coffee.
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You can do so much more than post letters and parcels at your local Post Office!
So many banks have closed locally, but the Post Office can be used in just the same way, for individuals and small businesses alike. Use your bank card to obtain cash and pay in cheques to your bank account; obtain currency for your holiday; drop off your Amazon returns and have your Amazon parcels delivered here (it’s an Amazon hub); buy One4All and Amazon gift cards; track parcels internationally; pay bills and get electricity top-ups to name just a few.
Too many small Post Offices are also disappearing - make sure you use this one to it’s full potential in order to keep it in the village!
Here are three of the new wines on our shelves - a Sauvignon Blanc, a Rioja and a Muscadet.
Come in and see our tasting notes and great prices!
New Forest Smokery and Trout Farm - delicious smoked trout pate. Short dated - 20th April - so these are now at a bargain price of £5.00. They can be frozen, so pop a couple in your freezer for a future delicious lunch!
It may be a Bank Holiday, but the shop is still open, so there is plenty of time to stock up on those Easter goodies and necessities!
We now have a small cafe area where you can enjoy lovely cake and hot drinks!
Together with tables and chairs there is a bar area by the front window where you can sit and watch the world (and ponies and donkeys!) go by.
There’s free WiFi, so you can catch up on those emails whilst you enjoy the “cake of the week”, having got your groceries or visited the Post Office.
Easter is fast approaching and we have a wonderful choice of Easter treats. Handmade chocolates, Easter eggs, local crafts and a wide selection of Easter cards. With a free car park and the Post Office, you really need go no further!
Mother’s Day is this Sunday, 19th March!
We have a selection of lovely cards and present ideas, so pop down for that perfect gift!
Why not treat yourself to some delicious shortbread this weekend from our new supplier, New Forest Shortbread!
Made by Tracy Thew at Burley Rails Cottage, we stock an extensive range of delicious flavours, with lovely little illustrations and New Forest information hidden inside the boxes.
Would make a lovely Mothering Sunday gift too!
Whilst the shelves of some supermarkets are bare, those at Woodgreen Community Shop are healthily stocked with fresh peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes and lettuce, together with a host of other fresh fruit and veg. With several deliveries a week, we have a constant fresh supply, with, I have to say, some of the biggest peppers I have ever seen!
Just as we kept you supplied with loo rolls during the Covid restrictions(!), we are able to keep our shelves stocked during the current salad vegetable shortage - and, of course, continue to stock a wide range of both essential and luxury foods. Pop down and see what we have - you will be surprised!
The best wine happens to be
closer than you think!
Woodgreen Community Shop boasts wines from all around the world. Pop in and have a look - there’s free parking and even a Post Office!
Here are a few facts about wine:
The colour of wine depends upon the use of the grape skins - red wine is made by fermenting grapes with their skins whilst white wine is made by fermenting grapes without their skins.
The cork oak trees, from which the wine corks are made, can only be harvested every nine years.
Wine is a natural preservative.
Tomorrow is Pancake Day!
And what better shop to get your pancake ingredients from than Woodgreen Community Shop?
Free range eggs, sugar, fresh lemons, and, if you’re in a hurry, there’s also pancake mix available.
With free parking too, what could be simpler?
| Monday | 08:00 - 18:00 |
| Tuesday | 08:00 - 18:00 |
| Wednesday | 08:00 - 18:00 |
| Thursday | 08:00 - 18:00 |
| Friday | 08:00 - 18:00 |
| Saturday | 08:00 - 17:00 |
| Sunday | 08:00 - 11:00 |
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The new shop and post office was officially opened on 14th May 2011 after more than four years of campaigning and fundraising by the local community.
The first Post Office in Woodgreen was built as an extension to a 17th century thatched cottage in 1907. Stephen Marlow is recorded as having been the postmaster until about 1920.
By 1924, Woodgreen Post Office was being run by a Mrs Noyce from the front room of her house, now Meadow Cottage, further along the High Street.
The Post Office subsequently moved to (what is now) The Old Post Office House in the High Street - now a private dwelling. There were also two petrol pumps with wind-up handles, and a substantial grocery store, with living accommodation. There was also a bread round and, for a while, a taxi service.
In 1974, the Post Office returned to the original building, which had been an antique and bric-a-brac shop in the intervening years. It remained there until 2011.
In 2006, when the future of the shop and post office was in doubt, a public meeting was held with a view to taking it over as a community enterprise. We had only six weeks to set up the Woodgreen Community Shop Association, raise funds, get staff in place for both the shop and Post Office and form a steering group from which the Management Committee and sub-committees would be elected.
By 2008, having managed to run the existing shop successfully as a community-owned enterprise for a year, we started the much more difficult task of finding a site for the new, permanent premises. Some land owned by the Parish Council was offered leasehold and at a peppercorn rent, saving us the cost of land purchase and thus reducing what we needed to raise. In August, we appointed Architects Richard Swann and Nigel Honer of Bruges Tozer, near Frome in Somerset and over the following two years embarked on a vigorous fundraising campaign. And the rest, as they say, is history.
