Ascott Village Shop

Services Offered

• Fruit and Vegetables which are delivered fresh to the Shop on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
• Fresh Bread Monday to Saturday.
• Baguettes, Croissants, Pasties etc baked daily on the premises.
• Fresh Meat from Foxbury Farm on a Wednesday and Callows Farm Shop on a Friday.
• Wine and Spirits from the Oxford Wine Company and Beer from Hook Norton Brewery.

New development provides ideal location for village shop
The village shop in Ascott was part of a local farm selling a few basics.  When the owner dies, the shop died with him.  Ascott had been without a Shop for five years when an opportunity arose in 2003 to provide a new one in conjunction with a new development of Houses that were to be built in the High Street. It was agreed that it would be owned and run by the residents of the Village as a Community Shop. With a very tight timescale – just over 6 months – the village set about fund raising, obtaining grants and getting volunteers to fit out the shop. They took over the building as a shell and had to provide all the services – Electrics, Heating and Plumbing, Plastering, Flooring, Woodwork and Decorating and then provide the Shelving and Freezer/Chillers before the shop could be fully stocked. This was all achieved and in November 2003 the new shop was opened and trading began thanks to the huge effort from the volunteers.
Bridgette Crundwell, chairman of the management committee commented, "Being involved in the shop has changed lives. The shop is the heart of the village, it really is."
 
How people power is reviving rural life
See the article writen by the Independent and featuring Ascott - under-Wychwood Community Shop.
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article328408.ece