Nailsea to get another charity shop

By Carol_Deacon | Thursday, July 08, 2010, 17:41

Can you believe it Nailsea is getting another charity shop!

British Heart Foundation is to open another charity shop in Nailsea
The refit is nearly complete and the seventh Nailsea charity shop opens on Thursday, August 19, at 11am
On top of the shops charities other good causes ask Nailsea People to donate secondhand clothes

I don’t think Nailsea people can either because so many have asked the shop fitters what is coming that they posted this makeshift note in the front window.

The premises in question is the former beauty/tanning salon which lasted five minutes but before that was a really good electrical store.

Okay we all know Waitrose is opening in September and Store Twenty One opened this month and all this is great.

But while rumours about a major development in the shopping precinct doing the rounds with promises that all will be revealed in the next year another shop selling secondhand clothes and bric-a-brac is taking the biscuit.

Trevor Ward shoe shop, which has served the people of Nailsea from the beginning is closing for good in August.

No-one knows for sure what is happening to the other retail units owned by the supermarket chain including Café Savva.

The dentist moved from Collier’s Walk to Station Road and HSBC is looking for new premises as its lease is not being renewed.

Nailsea Unit Trust the new ‘community-minded’ but faceless owners of the shopping precinct has shown some people the new plans – but no-one can make head or tails what is what.

We know they own the old petrol station, the car park, the old nursing home with all its land and that Weston College @ Nailsea is no more.

Can anyone hazard a guess at what is going on?

Small prize for spilling the beans (and it is not a week in Bermudas) and for listing here all the charity shops in Nailsea.

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I would like to thank Trevor Ward for a wonderful service over many many years, many many shoes (and boots) and always polite and helpful service and for the little play house!

Wendy Mappin

By nailseagran at 19:48 on 12/10/10
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The bookshop is also for sale. I hope that will remain a bookshop once it is sold.

By Golden Valley House Day Nursery at 14:26 on 29/07/10
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Sadly Trevor Ward shoe shop closed on Saturday and the new Store 21 which was officially opened a few weeks ago by Nailsea Town Council chairman Rod Lees is already offering goods at 70 per cent off.
While Nailsea people wait to welcome the new Waitrose which is due to open in September at the former Somerfield premises, it is ‘a certain’ that Cafe Savva will be swallowed up as part of the new supermarket empire.
I know Global Furniture - and I really like this shop - has a permanent sale but posting door-to-door leaflets about its latest 'sale now on' smacks of desperation.
The craft shop in the old High Street estate agents has come and gone but that always had a 'temporary' look.
But hey ho, the seventh charity shop advertises in its town centre window that its grand opening is on Thursday, August 19.
I understand Nailsea Town Council vice-chairman Clare Hunt will perform the honours at 11am.
And yet while all this is going more than 15 plastic charity bags begging for secondhand clothes have been posted through my front door – see photo.
Can’t wait for Nailsea & District Chamber of Trade & Commerce lunchtime meeting at the Queen’s Head tomorrow (Thursday).
Hopefully the traders will use the opportunity to talk shop and hear that the new town centre owners Nailsea Unit Trust (NUT) has worked out a strategy for Nailsea town centre to survive?

By Carol_Deacon at 15:41 on 28/07/10
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Re Sue Roberts-the bhf does not get reduced rent-if you want to take the time to look at their website then you will see that the BHF sells quality goods and raises funds for many suffering from heart disease.im sure you all know or know someone who has had heart issues and the funding for all the nurses and treatment comes mainly from the shops. the managers and staff all work hard to make the shops work and they are not just stereotypical "smelly charity shops" eg i have had a few designer items and even donated quality items. why do people have such shallow impressions of something that is not even open yet!

By Bran76 at 23:43 on 27/07/10
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I think you will find that charity shops pay the same rent as everyone else, unless the shop is on a short term lease in which case landlords might let a charity shop have cheaper rent rather than have an empty shop. Business's who aim to succeed do not rent a shop with a short term lease. Myself I volunteer in a charity shop and I think most charity shops serve a purpose. You only have to see how many customers use them to realise this.

On the other hand I totally agree that Nailsea desparately needs different shops, we have one butchers between Nailsea and Backwell, no shop where you may buy curtain material etc, no toy shop, one stationary shop etc, etc, but this is more to do with the small shops competing against cut price supermarket prices than anything else. So please, please support your local business's not the giant supermarkets, otherwise we will probably end up with even more charity shops.

By Dottieee at 14:53 on 17/07/10
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