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Alan Johnson MP was guest of honour at the grand opening of the Thornton Fresh Food Co-Op's new shop on Walker St on the Thornton Estate.
A new shop has appeared on the parade of shops on Walker St, Hull– but it's not a Tesco Express or a Sainsbury’s Local or a Cost-Cutter or, indeed, any of the usual big-business chains that you usually expect to see on a local shopping street.
This is something altogether different.
Local people had long hoped for a shop that sold affordable, good quality fruit and veg and now - with the help of the Goodwin Development Trust - that hope has become a reality with the grand opening - by Alan Johnson MP - of Fruit, veg and more... on the Thornton Parade. This new shop is operated by local volunteers who came together to form the Thornton Fresh Food Cooperative in a bid to supply their community with quality, fresh, healthy produce.
It was a fantastic fun day for the community with music from local musicians Jody McKenna and Dave Gowthorpe, magic for the kids from Alan Kazam and FREE fruit bags for the first 200 customers.
Stuart Spandler, Chairman of the Goodwin Development Trust, said: "The positive implications of this hugely important venture are immense - and can only serve to improve the health and wellbeing of the local community. The shop is just one of many outcomes of a participatory process called Quality of Life, which Goodwin hosted and supported. That process highlighted the lack of locally available, good quality fresh fruit and vegetables and the grand opening of Fruit, Veg and more... is the culmination of that process - a shop for the community that is run by the community.
The Thornton Estate residents have a long and formidable track record of organising and driving forward positive changes to their community – the Goodwin Development Trust being a classic example - and the opening of this shop is a testament to that past commitment and a sign-post to what can be achieved in the future.
Seventeen years ago, Goodwin began its life on that Parade of shops and now employs 270 people in 26 locations throughout Hull. Who knows... in 17 years' time the likes of Tesco and Sainsbury's might be looking over their shoulder!
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