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Woodgreen Community Shop 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!

25/04/2025

Barbara's lovely home grown herbs are back in stock for the summer! I spotted parsley, chives & thyme today and they all look wonderful.
Come on down and take a look - maybe whilst you're visiting the Hale & Woodgreen Horticultural Society Plant sale tomorrow 11am- 1pm in Woodgreen Village Hall.

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.

28/03/2025

We have a power cut on Monday 31 March, this time a planned outage from 10.00am to 4.00pm.
Sadly the Post Office will be closed all day.
Shop will operate during these hours on account or cash only basis.
We will not be able to sell any items apart from milk from the fridge or freezers. All other items will be available.

We are really sorry for any inconvenience but we have to protect our stock.
Outside these hours normal operation.
At least this outage is planned and we hope this is the last one 🤞

28/03/2025

We are delighted to see this newborn today what a beautiful little filly.
Remember to drive carefully through our village and on all New Forest Roads.

27/03/2025

Thank you everyone who completed our survey, it will help keep us heading in the right direction. We said we would share our results with you so below is a link to the shop website where we have posted the results documents.
There is a copy of the survey with the response numbers/percentages inserted plus a separate summary of the comments with our initial response.
Happy reading and watch this space for updates!
https://woodgreenshop.org/2025/03/27/survey-results/
Paper copies available from the shop.

23/03/2025

We are very sorry to report that we will have some shortages of refrigerated stock for a few days. Due the to prolonged SSE power cut yesterday (15 hours for us) the stock in our refrigerated display unit has been compromised and we are advised that it cannot be sold for human consumption.
Tomorrow we will have some fresh meat and milk deliveries, as well as some delicatessen items, however it will take a few days to re-build our stock of dairy items.

We apologise for the inconvenience but the safety of our customers is paramount. We're sure you will all understand.

21/03/2025

We are now doing two special wines of the month with a hefty discount from their normal RRP.
David recommends these for April although the offer starts from now!
£2.00 off each!

20/03/2025

We are scheduled to have our Post Office terminal replaced on Tuesday 25th March 2025 which unfortunately means the POST OFFICE counter will be CLOSED from 9am to 1pm.
We are sorry for any inconvenience, however the we cannot operate without an active terminal so we are sure you will understand. If we are able to open before 1pm we will certainly do so as we will have a Post Office team member on site all morning.
Many thanks for your understanding ☺️

07/03/2025

A huge thank you to all those who completed our recent Customer Survey – we are busy analysing the results which will be shared within the next couple of weeks. You gave us ideas, told us what you like, what we need to improve and, very importantly, 100% of responses agreed that the shop was an important resource for the Community. This is good to hear and appreciated by the whole team who put so much effort into running the shop.
So we will build on the results and take some actions very soon – remembering that this is a true community shop which is listening to the Community.
We’re delighted to announce that the winner of the £50 voucher to spend with us is Char Garrett from Woodgreen. Char was very happy to learn that it was her named survey drawn from all the returns –we hope enjoy your ‘free’ shop Char!

03/03/2025

Did you know that it is National Pie Week this week? We have lovely fresh home made pies from May’s Butchers coming in to the shop tomorrow! There will be steak and kidney, steak and ale or chicken & ham to choose from
Of course you could choose to make your own and we have all the ingredients for a pie making session too – fresh meat and to help a little there’s frozen pastry available from our freezer. And to make it veggie try potato, leek & cheese pie from everyone’s favourite home cook – Mary Berry.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/potato_leek_and_cheese_93841

10/02/2025

Don’t forget your loved one this Friday!
We still have a great selection of cards, chocs, gifts and wine for you to choose from!

03/02/2025

Have you had your say yet?
Don't forget to fill in the Woodgreen Community Shop survey to be in with a chance of winning the £50 voucher!
And a big 'thank you' to all our lovely customers who have already returned their forms with really valuable feedback - if you gave us your contact details your name is already in the draw.

22/01/2025

Complete our Questionnaire to be in with the chance of winning a £50 voucher to spend in the shop!
Thank you Bill Shepley for going out on a very cold winter morning and taking the original photograph of our shop for the poster below. Thanks Bill 👍

03/01/2025

Are you looking for work in the mornings at the weekend?

We might be able to help...

24/12/2024

Two of our lovely customers today getting into the Christmas spirit!

24/12/2024

Take a look at who's visiting our lovely community shop today...
It's Santa Claus Himself UK

23/12/2024

Woodgreen Community Shop Committee would like to say a huge thank you to all our team of staff and volunteers who work so hard to keep the shop and Post Office running and the customers happy! The Christmas period is always challenging and this year has seen many people stepping up to keep us fully operational in the absence of our manager - get well soon Katy - we miss you !
Also big shout out this year for the talented team of Alix Downing, Andrea Finn and Wayne Eagles who have designed and produced our festive Advent Calendar - it has had such a lovely response from the community and made everyone smile.

23/12/2024

What's behind door 23? Thank you Yorkshire Provender

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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

Website

https://www.woodgreenshop.org/

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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.

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