Tre-ddol village, near Aberystwyth Ceredigion, West Wales UK May 3 2013. A group of local residents have today (3 May 2013) taken over and re-opened 'Siop Cynfelyn' the village shop and cafe in Tre-Ddol near Aberystwyth, which had been closed for several years. Over 60 people have supported the community-run venture by using 'reverse' credit cards,. where they lent the shop upwards of £40 each to buy in a stock of locally made goods and fresh food. photo Credit: keith morris/Alamy Live News
Ceredigion's newest community shop starts trading - with queues at the till and smiles at the counter ! Sales started early at Ceredigion's newest community shop and cafe - as next door neighbour Jean Devoy called in before opening time to buy half a dozen eggs for breakfast. And she opened the floodgate to a constant stream of local and passers buy, all eager to check out what the newly refurbished premises at one of the best known roadside sites in the county has to offer. After months of work by scores of volunteers Siop Cynfelyn@cletwr at Tre'rddol, near Aberystwyth opened for business on Friday 3 May - promising to provide a whole range of community services as well as shopping essentials. "The response was absolutely terrific, with more than 800 people coming through the door to enjoy a free cup of tea the first day," said Cwmni Cletwr's Mike Indeka. "And from mid morning onwards our team of volunteers was working flat out selling everything from locally made sausages to home grown rhubarb." Cwmni Cymunedol Cletwr, set up 18 months ago, had the go-ahead for this pilot project to re-open the shop and cafe just before Christmas, after winning a £46,000 grant from the Big Lottery Village SOS fund, as well as funding from Cavo and Cronfa Eleri. And teams of volunteers - supported by two newly appointed part-time managers - have been working to re-quip the building, installing all new shop fittings, re-decorating and upgrading the facilities, adding latest computer systems. "We've had fantastic support from local people all the way along, and bearing in mind that the parish only has 650 people living here, it looks as though the word has spread already from the numbers of customers coming through the door," said Mike. The long term objective - if Siop Cynfelyn is successful - is to re-open the petrol station as well, with a completely re-vamped modern service station using further Big Lottery money from a further bid that has already gone in. "Worki
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