Category: Shop news

Trial of no baking on Sundays

The Shop is currently making a minimal profit and often a loss on our Sunday baking of croissants and pains au chocolat.  We’re therefore decided to try not baking on a Sunday morning. Instead we can offer the following alternatives for you to buy: Frozen unbaked indiivdual croissants and pains au chocolat to bake at

NEW BOOK ON SALE ‘Wick Hall: the story of a house and a family’

New title joins our selection of local publications Wick Hall: the story of a house and a family by local historian Richard Dudding is about Wick Hall in Radley near Abingdon, and the Dockar Drysdale family who purchased and then transformed it in the nineteenth century. An intriguing piece of local history, it also opens a

Relief Shop Manager starts work

Welcome to Leanne Timmins, our Relief Shop Manager, who started work on 2 June 2025.  Our volunteer team has stepped up wonderfully since our Shop Manager, John Goodenough, went on long-term sick leave in January, with many taking on extra shifts and some being trained to carry out additional tasks.  However, when it became clear