How you kit out your shop or stall, what stock to keep and how much, and how to keep your customers coming – here are guides and toolkits to get your venture going.
Guides and toolkits
- Community Food Initiatives Retailing in Hospitals and Health Centres (CFHS 2011)
- Flying off the shelves: a guide for community food retailers to help them sell more fruit and vegetables (CFHS 2011)
- Routes to Health: case studies of two community-run mobile food shops summary of the case studies (CFHS 2006)
- From Talk to Shop: a guide for community-owned shops (Plunkett Scotland)
- A guide to setting up a food co-op (West Lothian Food and Health Development 2008)
- Food Co-ops Toolkit: a simple online guide to setting up food co-ops (Sustain)
- Social Enterprise Toolbox for food-based social enterprises: includes booklets on Retail marketing (PDF), Selling and serving (PDF) and Volunteers for community shops (PDF) (Making Local Food Work)
Where to go for more advice
Resources
- Stock control (Business Gateway)
- Plunket Community Shops Online
