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A beautiful Community Shop & Post Office with outdoor seating, coffee, tea & cake in Woodgreen, New Forest National Park.

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You’ll be amazed at how much we do!

08/07/2025

Hope you're enjoying our amazing new range of vegetables, fruit & salads! If you haven’t tried them yet drop in to take a look what's on offer this week.
We would love your feedback on the quality and range we're now offering so message us , like our page or simply tell our team in the shop!

03/07/2025

Two of our most popular wines.
10% off
Now each bottle at an amazing price of £8.99
Is he bonkers?

01/07/2025

We listened to your comments and are pleased to tell everyone that we're trialling longer Summer opening hours on Sunday's. So grateful that some of our wonderful team have stepped up to cover the extra hours for a few weeks - thank you everyone for giving up your Sunday's!
So for JULY & AUGUST only we'll be OPEN 8am-3pm on SUNDAY!
Hope to see you for those last minute BBQ ingredients and maybe ice cream to go with your strawberries 🍓?

20/06/2025

Well this is going down very well.
Do not forget your dogs when you pop in on this hot day, whilst you cool down in our air conditioned shop make sure you buy an iced treat for your beloved pet. My dogs love it !

05/06/2025

Have you tried the lovely new bread from Kate's Kitchen at Rockbourne which we are stocking now?
We have fresh deliveries every Wednesday and Saturday and there are 4 types to choose from!
Seeded Sourdough
Jalapeno & Cheddar
Walnut, Cinnamon & Raisin
all at £5.50 each
plus Italian with sundried tomato & olive £5.97

Pick one up to try this weekend!
Available to order too!Kate’s Kitchen MicroBakery

31/05/2025

Has anyone lost a Dachshund?

29/05/2025

Vacancy for Part-time Bookkeeper to join our vibrant team at the Woodgreen Community Shop and Post Office.
We are looking for someone to undertake the responsibilities of a Part-time Bookkeeper who shares the values of our organisation and wishes to contribute to the positive impact of our work, while helping us provide high levels of service and satisfaction to our customers, staff, and suppliers.
The role will largely be undertaken remotely with visits to the shop to collect physical records when needed and meet with shop staff and management. We expect it will require a commitment of between 30-40 hours a month to perform the recurring tasks, this is a paid role.
Knowledge and experience working with Xero accounting software would be valuable but is not mandatory; we would prefer someone with experience of working in a small organisation undertaking similar bookkeeping responsibilities.
For a detailed job description please email: [email protected]

24/05/2025

Cheese tasting, wine tasting, and delicious sourdough from Kate’s Kitchen MicroBakery all going very well, you’re not too late to come and try! Even our four legged friends are being treated 🐾

18/05/2025

Did someone say 'cheese tasting'? 🧀🧀
Date for your diary cheese lovers - we're running a free tasting on Saturday 24th May from 10am - 12 noon in the shop.
Come along and see what we have on offer and all cheese is discounted by 10% all day!😁

Come along and join us to taste our lovely cheeses!

15/05/2025

Have you seen our lovely new Woodgreen shopping bags? We have two new designs - a regular bag with useful front pocket £8.99 and our super insulated cool bag with front pocket also at £11.99 - perfect for shopping just now!
Both available from the shop - they make lovely gifts too!
And thank you Linda for being a willing assistant!

04/05/2025

An exciting announcement from the Woodgreen Community Shop committee!

Thank you;

The National Lottery Community Fund Fund

New Forest National Park Authority - Sustainable Communities Fund

New Forest District Council - Community Infrastructure Levy

Hampshire County Council - Councillor Community Grant Edward Heron

01/04/2025

A big shout out to Pippa Hutchinson for her hard work on the outside of the shop!
She has re-varnished the benches, spring-cleaned the other outdoor furniture and planted up our new pots.
So now the sun is shining come on down and enjoy an ice-cream outside!
Thank you Pippa ( and Rob) for your help - we appreciate everything our hardworking volunteers contribute to the shop.

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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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01725 512467

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Our Story

A warm welcome to Woodgreen Community Shop!

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.