Newsletter March 2012

Dear all visitors,

You can receive this newsletter on email by requesting it to fareshares@aktivix.org

Next Saturday

Due to volunteer shortages, FareShares will be closed next Saturday 24th of March. We apologise for the inconvenience and we encourage welcome new additions to this all-volunteer-run co-operative.

Fridays

On Fridays, for the next two months, fareshares will only open from 4 to 7pm, also as a result of volunteer shortages. Again, we apologise for the inconvenience and we encourage welcome new additions to this all-volunteer-run co-operative.

Herb study

The next herb study will be on Tuesday 3rd of April at the usual time, 7.30 pm.

We will be looking at spring herbs, cleavers, dandelion, nettles and chickweed, focusing on cleavers as the herb study itself.

If you can, please bring fresh of any of the above (or any other herb you know and see growing near you) for us to look at.

Open to anyone – whether you are new to herbs or want to deepen your connection to the plants. We look at one herb each time, drink it fresh (if we can) and dried, share our immediate responses and collective experiences, and cross reference herb books for medicinal and traditional uses.
Free or on donation.

Empty bottles please!

Don’t forget to bring back the 1L bottles you bought washing-up and laundry liquid in; we can refill these.

Finances and donations

Fareshares tries to keep shelf prices as low as possible so that more people can afford to shop here – we’re all volunteers, and we only add a small mark-up – but please do put a donation in the jar when you shop.

With an increased rent and rates bill (as well as utilities) the running costs of the building are higher than they were before. Please consider filling in one of the Standing Order forms, if you can afford to make a regular donation (between £2 and £20 a month – any amount would be brilliant!) to the Building.

We also welcome donations of pens, sellotape, black bin-bags, new envelopes, postage stamps, and A4 paper for printing on.

Newsletter 2 July 2011

You are receiving this email because you have requested to receive the regular newsletter, either by signing up for it in the shop, or via internet.

Herb study

Some of the volunteers in FareShares run a herb study group into the remedies that herbs can provide. If you are into making Big Pharma obsolete, this group may be for you. Try it out. No purchase required.
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Newsletter 22 March 2011

This is the first newsletter FareShares has sent.

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Dear FareShares customer,

If you are receiving this, you have signed up for our newsletter in the shop. So you know by now that it is run entirely by volunteers.

These volunteers are a bit stretched out in our tasks. In short, we are short of volunteers. So we need your help.

As any other shop, we need to take a note of our inventory every once in a while. Our next stock-take is on Saturday 2nd of April. Please let us know if you could come and help for an hour or longer. It is not a difficult task, it just takes a few people to do it.

If you decide to come, please write back or let the shift workers know, the next time you are in the shop. Please write your name and some way to contact you on the day book, so we know how many people we can count on.

We are also currently requesting blank, or one-sided-blank A4 paper. So if you work in an office that produces lots of scrap paper that can get into a printer, feel free to bring it to FareShares!

Thank you for all your help and your support.

FareShares

Notes on the shop

 

These are some notes you can see on the shop now.

information

How it all works.

Please return any old wash-up or laundry liquid bottles, so we can refill them.

The Herb Study Group runs the First Tuesday of every month at 7.30pm. Open to every one who wants to learn to use herbs.

 

 

What do you think of the new coconut-based and hemp-based milks? Please give us your feedback so we can decide if we’ll keep stocking them …

Would you be interested in buying 1kg of baking soda for £2.93? If there is enough interest, we will get it …

Procedure to order in bulk from the suppliers FareShares gets its stock.

… And we sell mooncups! For just £13. Ask at the desk.

 

Feedback is welcome here or by email but our main channel of communication continues to be our day-book in the shop.