About Us

What else is available?

We carry a wide range of daily newspapers, magazines, and puzzle books.

We carry all the usual grocery items – from the traditional range of bread available at your supermarket to locally baked bread, and baked beans to stock cubes to jams & spreads and a variety of flours for home baking. We also stock those necessary toiletries and household proucts.

Many household supplies and emergency handyman supplies too.  From batteries, bleach and candles to bin bags, recycling caddy bags, firelighters, pain killers, cough sweets, toothpaste, hairbands and shoe laces. We also stock small packs of nails and screws, paintbrushes, picture and other fixings.

You’ll find nice fresh eggs, and in the chiller cupboard are butter, crème fraiche, milk and cream, fresh meat and bags of prepared salads and vegetables.

The glass chiller counter offers a good selection of deli style products from Farmhouse Dairies in  Devon, Somerset and other cheeses too, hummus, paté, salami and cold meats. Somerset Farmhouse ham, Jen’s Pantry Sausage Rolls and Quiches.

In the sweet-tooth department, you will find boxes of chocolates for that last minute gift and a range of chocolate bars, sweets, loose and pre-prepared mini bags of pic’n mix sweets – at pocket money prices – ideal for the kids (or those adults who seem to buy them more often than the children!)  There is a selection of biscuits for every day and for special occasions and good-value cakes from general wholesale suppliers as well as local suppliers

From the alcohol shelves, you’ll find a range of wines and spirits, beer, cider and mixers. If there are other products you would like, if our suppliers stock it we will get it in for you if we can.

We also stock cigarettes, tobacco, papers, matches and lighters.

The stationery section has a stand full of greetings cards at the front of the shop together with range of products at the rear of the shop including those envelopes you thought you still had somewhere, but just cannot find, padded envelopes for posting that parcel, sticky tape and glue.  We also offer reams of printer paper.

Photocopying:  We provide a photocopying service if you don’t have a printer.

‘Flowers by Wendy’ based here in Stogumber, supplies lovely plants year-round for gifts, and seasonal plants for the garden, including bedding and vegetable plants. We also sell bird food to keep the bird feeders full.

We are also a very handy Pharmacy delivery point for Dunster surgery so you can pick up your prescription easily and locally.

Who are we?

Stogumber Community Village Shop is a Limited Company registered with the Financial Conduct Authority.  The role of the Financial Conduct Authority is to regulate financial services in the UK and every registered individual, firm or company.

Seen here are just a few of our volunteers: Chris G taking a delivery, Sheila our shop volunteer manager/staff trainer with volunteers Karen and Ken (shopping) during the first week of trading.

The 60-70 strong volunteer group took over ‘Central Stores’ in Stogumber at the end of March 2023 when owners Roger and Anne Howe retired. For the past 16 years Anne and Roger, with occasional help from their son Scott,  ran the shop as a successful business. In more recent times one of two of the villagers have been co-opted to work a day a week part time to give Roger a break enabling him to provide more support to Anne at home. Roger was always cheerfully ‘there’ for the community in so many ways. He sold tickets for and supported local events, advised new residents and holiday visitors on local routes of travel, places of interest and provided essential information on bin days and other services.

Roger was sensitive to everyone’s situation by offering help and advice when it was needed. He noticed when someone hadn’t come in as usual and followed up to check they were OK. He had a great relationship with the children and helped them work out their spend and their change from pocket money purchases. He personally delivered shopping when people were unable to get to the shop and had phoned in an order. He and Anne in the background looked after everyone during the pandemic. The village owes them both a huge vote of thanks for his support over the years.

Following their excellent example, the ‘Stogumber Shop’ volunteers aim to get to know every one of their customers and to offer that same support, along with a happy smile.  We are working for you and with you – the local residents and the wider community and visitors too.  We try hard to meet good standards and to supply quality goods that you need at the best value possible.  If there is something you’d like but cannot find in the shop, please ask and we will do our best to get it for you.

In the summer months the bench outside is a great place to sit and chat to friends and customers alike.

The shop is overseen by a steering committee led by Lance Moir.

Regular operational committee members: Lance Moir, Jerry Pattison, Sheila Gibbs, Julian Spicer, Paula Clements, Russ Sandy.

Other members who join the team for specific meetings and functions: Lucy Bateman, Mary Scott, Nicholas Browne.

Webmasters & Social Media (comes under the banner of Marketing and Publicity):

• L. Bateman,   J. Tillyer,   P.  Clements,   B. Walker.
• Contact via Stogumber Shop Facebook profile messages or ask in the shop.

We are keen to co-opt another volunteer to join the marketing and publicity team – mainly to assist with social media – FB Insta etc.   No meetings just the odd email – work from home and occasonally pop into the shop for product photos and updates.