Alan, Emma and Kirsten went up to Oxford for the Plunkett Award ceremony on Wednesday 26 June. Unfortunately we did not win but we did receive a Runners Up certificate with a lovely letter from Hannah at the Plunkett Foundation: "Congratulations on being a Community Shop Award runner up. I hope you enjoyed the event yesterday. I very much enjoyed meeting the stars of the applications! You should feel very proud of your achievement, you are one of the three best community shops in the UK in your section! A huge achievement!" And she is definitely right! The fact that at the time of entering the competition, we had only been open for 10 months makes our achievement even greater. Roll on next year – we will blow all the competition out of the water!!

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