Village Shops Grants

Up to £500 offer to Village Shops to improve service

Setting up a community shop? Need some new equipment to improve your service to customers? Launching a new range of local food products? Want to hang on to your post office service? Introducing a new service in your shop? Trying to get more customers to use your shop? Wish to improve access to your shop?

Then why not apply for a grant of up to £500 from the “Villages Shops Help Fund” through Dorset Community Action?

There are only three main conditions involved:

1. The project must aim to improve the shop’s service to local customers;
2. The project can’t have already begun before asking for the money;
3. Grants can only be awarded to the last remaining food shop or post office service in the village.

Anyone wishing to apply for a Villages Shops Help Fund grant can get information by contacting Simon Thompson
You can also download an application form and a checklist of information about the Village Shops Grant.