January Newsletter
Welcome to our January newsletter. Please do encourage friends and neighbours to sign up to our monthly newsletter, you can forward this email and they can sign up HERE
PHOTO BY Rosemary Bailey Snow on the Common
Every month we start the newsletter with a local, seasonal photo, would you like your photo to be featured as the ‘photo of the month’? Pop us an email to newsletter@amberleyshopandcafe.co.uk with your photo attached as a jpeg (not too high res) and we will try and feature it.
SHOP NEWS …….
Sadly Good Small Farms will not be with us on a Tuesday for the foreseeable future while they concentrate on expanding their box scheme. We will keep you posted if they are able to return at any point. Salt bakehouse will still be here on a Tuesday in the forecourt with their delicious bread and pastries.
Thank you to all of our lovely customers who raised £125.73 for the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal.
If you are starting the New Year with a health kick have you spotted Forthay Granola, muesli and granola bars in the shop? You may have met this lovely local company at the Christmas launch party where they were doing tastings.Their delicious award winning gluten free granola was created in the farmhouse kitchen of their B&B. Each bag is still freshly handmade. It makes a delicious and healthy start to the day.
Café News
The new menu in the cafe is proving popular, everyone is delighted that soup is back and the new oven has allowed us to extend the menu to include toasted sandwiches. you can view the full menu on the website here.
Origami Workshop
Rosemary Bailey very kindly offered a free origami workshop in December which was a great success.
if you missed it she is going to run another one in February with a Valentines theme
Tuesday 10th February 10.30-11.30am
MUSICAL SUNDAYS are back !
Our December Musical Sunday was a triumph! The Sing-along-a-carol was led by Veronica Pride accompanied by her friend Sally on the keyboard. Around 50 people came to sing together and the complimentary mulled cider and juice went down very well indeed!!
This month's Musical Sunday features folk and classical violin music from the Annberliz Trio on Sunday 25th January 2.30-3.30pm.
Musical Sundays at the Amberley Shop & Café showcase incredible local talent for an hour of live music in our wonderful café. Our upcoming events are:
February 15th: Common Voices featuring Nailsworth voices with Amberley and Oakridge village choirs
March 15th: Mothering Sunday cream teas while Tom Parker plays his harp (booking essential)
March 22nd - Rodborough Folk Orchestra
All performances are 2.30 to 3.30pm and free.
What’s on this month
Tuesday 13th January - Salt Bakehouse on the forecourt 10.30-11.30am
Friday 16th January - Friday Cuppa - 10.30 - 12 noon in the Church.
Tuesday 20th January - Salt Bakehouse on the forecourt 10.30-11.30am
Friday 23rd January - Friday Cuppa - 10.30 - 12 noon in the Church.
Sunday 25th January - Musical Sunday - The Annberliz trio - 2.30-3.30pm.
Tuesday 27th January - Salt Bakehouse on the forecourt 10.30-11.30am
Friday 30th January - Friday Cuppa - 10.30 - 12 noon in the Church.
Tuesday 17th February - TuSC - Tuesday story telling club 10am - 10.30am, aimed at children aged 2-5 years but all welcome. We have a special guest for TuSC in the Easter Holidays more to Follow in February newsletter.
Dates for you diary
a little note on parking……….
Parking on the forecourt is for blue badge holders only. We would ask you kindly not to park on the gravel or on the forecourt unless you are loading and unloading for the parish rooms or are a blue badge holder. School, playgroup, walkers and emergency vehicles all need to safely access the forecourt and they can’t do this if it is being used as a car park.
From Alison our volunteer co-ordinator…….
VOLUNTEERING
OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH OUR MARKETING TEAM
Our Marketing Team are looking for a volunteer to work with them, to help deliver social media posts and provide support with copy for the website. If you have experience of writing copy or advertising, or as a journalist, and have a
couple of days a month to offer, please contact
Alison Truphet on the below email address .
Anyone who is interested in volunteering either behind the scenes or on the shop floor, should contact me on alison@truphet.com We always welcome new volunteers and full training and refresher training is a big priority for us.
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