If you’d like to get involved, we’d love to hear from you!

We’re thrilled to announce that we now have all the money to buy the shop! Thanks to the incredible support from our 307 shareholders, our fundraising efforts, and a last-minute top-up loan, the dream is becoming a reality.

We’re aiming to exchange contacts before Christmas and to complete by the end of January, ready to take up the Post Office contract in early February.

The Committee have been busy meeting suppliers, sourcing a new stock and till system, investigating coffee machines and dish washers, measuring shelves, doing small repairs, freshening up the outside and inside, gathering volunteers, recruiting a shop manager, applying for funding, not to mention producing a marvellous recipe book!

The Hesket Newmarket Community Shop Recipe Book is now on sale! It is full of recipes contributed by folk young and old from around the county, including a few celebrities for good measure! From Jamie’s Jammy Buns to Michael Ball’s Sunday Roast Potatoes there are loads of scrumptious recipes. It would make an ideal Christmas present, especially for those who are difficult to buy for!

The Recipe Book is available to buy in Hesket Newmarket at the shop, the Old Crown pub and Denton House B&B, at £10 a copy.

Please email hesketnmshop@gmail.com if you would like us to post one out to you (at an additional cost of £3.60 first class, £2 second class). We may also be able to deliver locally.

Our next public meeting will be on Tuesday 27th of January, 7pm at Caldbeck Village Hall. Please come along and say hello, find out the latest news and get involved!

This is your shop — and together, we’ve made it happen!

Public meetings

We have had 10 public meetings since the beginning of the project. Catch up with all of them here:  

2024

Meeting 1 (March), Meeting 2 (April), Meeting 3 (May), Meeting 4 (June), Meeting 5 (August), Meeting 6 (October), Meeting 7 (December).

2025

Meeting 8 (February) , Meeting 9 (April), AGM June 2025, Meeting 10.