About the New Shop
A new community-owned shop incorporating a fuel station, a small café
and a craft sales area is planned on the site of the old shop.
As well as providing much needed services for the community and its
regular visitors the project will provide some jobs and will stimulate
tourism and other local businesses. Any profits made will
be devoted to helping other local projects.
The Shop will be a wholly-owned subsidiary company of Glenuig Community
Association (GCA) and there will be a Board of Directors which will
be made up of members of the public and at least two Directors of the
GCA. The Shop Company Directors will appoint staff, oversee accounting
and determine the general policy of the shop. They will also actively
seek feedback from the community about the running and performance of
the shop. Until the shop is ready to open, a Steering Group has
been set up to make plans and to raise money for the project.
The Steering Group has reopened the old shop in Glenuig on a voluntary
basis in order to raise funds for a new shop. It has also run a Bring-and-Buy
Sale and is planning further sales, benefit concerts and a major prize
draw. In order to turn the plans into reality funding bodies expect
the community to demonstrate clearly their support for the project and
they expect us to put some money into the project ourselves.
How you can help
The Steering Group has launched a Group which it has called "Friends
of Glenuig Shop". Friends of Glenuig Shop can make a donation to
the funds and will have the right to have a say in how the shop is run
and how any profits it makes are awarded to deserving local projects.
As well as raising funds, it is equally important that we have a list
of people who have expressed positive support for a new shop. The more
members we have and the more money we can raise this way the more funding
bodies, both public and private, will be convinced that we have a project
worthy of their support.
How Friends of Glenuig Shop will work
We are asking if you would make a donation to the development of the new
shop (say, £10, £20 (or more!) or whatever you can afford).
If you do not wish to make a donation at all at this stage, please join
up nevertheless, as moral support is just as important as financial support.
You will receive from time to time a Newsletter on the progress of the
shop project.
You will be asked to contribute your views on the running and development
of the shop through the Newsletter and through meetings of the Friends.
Your views on the allocation of any shop profits to worthy local projects
will be sought, again through the Newsletter or through a meeting of the
Friends. If the shop fails to be established in the long run, then you
will be contacted and asked whether you would wish your donation to be
returned to you or whether you would consider having it put to use for
a specified local community project agreed between the Friends, the Community
Shop Steering Group and Glenuig Community Association.
The new Community Shop needs your financial and moral
support in order to become a reality. By becoming a member
of the Friends of Glenuig Shop you will help to demonstrate to the
funding bodies that the Community has itself contributed to the
project and you will be able to have an input into the way the shop
is run. |
Tha bùth-sgìre ùr ri thogail
ann an Gleann Uige ach mus tig seo gu buil bidh feum mòr
air cul-taic bhon sgìre eadar cul-taic airgid agus cul-taic
pearsanta. Faodaidh tu an dà rud a dhèanamh ma thig
thu 'nad bhall de Bhuidhean nan Càirdean. Gheibh thu
cuairt-litir bho àm gu àm ag innse mar a tha gnothaichean
a' dol agus bidh coinneamhan ann an drasda 's a rithist far am faod
thu innse do bheachd air mar a tha a' bhùth 'ga ruith. |
How to Join
Click
here to download the Membership Form as a printable Word document,
then print it, fill it in, and give it or send it together with your contribution
(if any) to Glenuig Hall or to a member of the Shop Steering Group.
Members of the Steering Group are:
Anne-Mairi Clegg, Samalaman, Glenuig
Sue Cox, Forsay
Pamela Conacher, Pairc na h-Oidhche, Roshven
Jon Kelly, Blairs Cottage, Roshven
Glenuig Community Association is a Company Limited by Guarantee No: 147089
and is registered as a Scottish Charity No. SCO 20339.
Contact
us by email.
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