Amberley Shop and Café Committee Members
Deb has lived in Amberley since August 2021 and moved to be nearer family and grandchildren. She has been a committee member of Amberley Shop and Café since 2021 and has had the Shift Leader role since opening in June 2023. She took on the Chair role in October 2025, having been Vice Chair prior to that.
Deb retired from her Training and Development Consultancy in 2019 and now works 2/3 days a week as a Garden Guide at Highgrove from April-October.
Fod has been involved with the shop and café from the beginning. He is a retired economist, who specialised in the regulation of the public utilities and financial services. He now spends his time (trying to) fixing things in the shop/café/church, volunteering and perfecting his non-existent artistic talent for “pictures” on the top of the coffee. He is also Vice-Chair.
Sarah has lived in Amberley for nearly 46 years and was involved very early on in establishing the community benefit society for the shop, becoming treasurer. She has continued in this role and, as a member of the Amberley Church Council, acted as liaison between the shop committee and the Council. Throughout her time in Amberley she has run her own accountancy practice, specialising particularly in personal tax work. She hopes to retire soon.
Beryl has lived in Theescombe for over 30 years now and worked at Amberley Parochial
School as Business Manager for 20 plus years, a fantastic job, until she retired nearly 10
years ago. She has been involved with Amberley Shop & Café since 2020 and been
Secretary for the majority of that time as well as a regular Shift Leader since our opening.
Rebecca discovered the gem that is Amberley in 2015, finally moving here in 2016. She has been a committee member since the launch of the Amberley Shop and Café and contributes to marketing and supplier management as well as doing shifts. Rebecca’s background is in marketing planning where she launched, built and ran 2 communications agencies. She has experience in marketing strategy and business management. Rebecca is semi-retired and spends time with her grandchildren, on the odd business project, and attempts to manage an unruly, large garden.
Richard has lived in Amberley since August 2021 having moved from Surrey to be close to family and grandchildren. He has been a committee member since 2022 and a Shift Leader since the shop and café opened in June 2023. He was closely involved in the EPOS system set up and product selection and is responsible for the monthly management financials. Although retired, Richard continues to work one day a week as an Independent Marketing Consultant having held a similar role for many years in international FMCG Marketing Research.
Lou grew up on Minchinhampton Common and now lives in Middleyard. She became General Manager in October 2023 and oversees the day to day running of the shop and café, as well as being a co-opted member of the committee. Before stepping into retail in 2021, Lou built her career in data engineering within the Financial Services sector, later taking redundancy and embracing a new direction.
Tim has lived in Amberley since the end of 2020 having been a regular visitor with family in the village. He has been a committee member since September 2025. He early birds, looks after the website and works on the Marketing & Events teams. Tim’s background is in broadcast media and has run video production companies and digital media platforms. He is presently attempting to retire……
Jackie has lived in Amberley since 2021. After retiring from full time work she began volunteering in the Amberley Shop and Café in mid-2025, then joined the committee in the autumn. Until retiring Jackie worked for over 30 years in the management of social and low cost housing, working mainly for Housing Associations and Local Authorities. She hopes to be able to spend more time now gardening, walking and enjoying our beautiful countryside.
Rachael moved to Amberley nearly ten years ago and has two daughters who both attend Amberley School. She was involved in the original fundraising to help set up the Amberley Shop and Cafe and has enjoyed volunteering on Sunday mornings since it opened. For work, Rachael runs her own financial services consultancy, specialising in the setup and development of new financial services businesses and banks.