The Share Shop team are exploring ways of re-opening in the town, following its closure last year.
Share Shop Trustee Cllr Anne Hills said at Frome’s full town council meeting last month that the team are exploring ways which the service could ‘come out of hibernation.’ The shop enables residents to borrow some of the 800 items available, including arts and crafts, DIY and decorating, tools, household items, leisure and camping equipment, kitchen items and games and more.
“We have got lots of irons in the fire,” said Cllr Anne Hills. “One of the possible ways of us coming out of a hibernation is to have a distributed service around the town, so different categories of items in different locations so that we start back in a small way, in a controlled way.”
Cllr Hills also said the team was still searching for a ‘perfect location to operate from.’ The share shop was located on The Bridge, where it had been operating for nine years. The premises closed last summer when Halifax shut.
However, it has now been purchased by a buyer who has allowed the team to continue to store their items in the building for the time being.
“The prospective purchaser of the shop where we are currently storing our items is incredibly understanding,” said Cllr Hills. “He’s quite prepared for us to continue to store our items there in the meantime and has given us several months after he’s purchased the shop to allow us to continue to store it. What we don’t particularly want to do is move twice because that will cost us a lot of money.”
