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
- How to set up a Community Shop (Plunkett Foundation 2019)
- Food Co-ops Toolkit: online guide to setting up food co-ops (Sustain)
- A guide to setting up a food co-op (West Lothian Food and Health Development 2008)
- Trading for Success: a practical guide to marketing and financial management for community run food enterprises (Making Local Food Work 2012)
- Flying off the shelves: a guide for community food retailers to help them sell more fruit and vegetables (CFHS 2011)
Learning from other projects
- Strengthening the future for community retailers (CFHS 2018)
- Staying power (CFHS 2018)
- East Dunbartonshire Food Co-ops case study
- Community Food Initiatives Retailing in Hospitals and Health Centres (CFHS 2011)
- Routes to Health: case studies of two community-run mobile food shops summary of the case studies (CFHS 2006)
Where to go for more advice
Resources
- Advice for New Businesses (Food Standards Scotland)
- Stock control (Business Gateway)
- Retail Safe (Food Standards Scotland)