What can I buy in the shop?
Anything except electrical goods, videos, bedding or large pieces of furniture
I’ve got things I want to donate, what is the process?
Please pop in to let us know what you have and we can confirm whether we sell them.
What is the money raised by the shop spent on?
All proceeds from sales at the shop go towards funding the work of Christ Church
as we seek to reach out into our community.
I would like to help in the shop - who do I contact?
If you would like to support the work of the shop as a volunteer please contact the
Christ Church Office on 01702 588468 or email:- shop@christchurchsouthend.org.uk
“Let’s Open a Shop!”
At the suggestion of David Jennings, the then Archdeacon, Barbara Blackwell, whose
idea it was to open a shop, wrote the booklet published in 1999.
In the forward the Bishop of Chelmsford wrote “’Let’s open a shop’ is the story of
how the shop was conceived and set up to support Christ Church’s Development Fund.
But it tells much more than the story of fund raising; the book is the story of the
discovery of a new and extra dimension of Christian love within both church membership
and with non-members: it tells how the shop, initially set up to raise funds, became
an embassy for mission for Christ Church”.
And I am very proud to say this remains so today, thanks to a dedicated group of
volunteers. (Rev Simon Roscoe 2009)
