CREDITON Community Bookshop is a not-for-profit social enterprise, which means the business operates for the benefit of its community. As well as running an independent book shop on the High Street, the social enterprise also support other local businesses and entrepreneurs, trains and supports its own volunteers, offers space to educational start-ups and runs an award-winning schools programme.?Recently, alongside other local social initiatives like The Eden Project and the Exeter Phoenix, it benefited from working with Power to Change, an organisation which helps community enterprises build sustainable, profitable businesses by assisting them with funding, skills training and business management support.

From 10am to 12 noon on Saturday, October 7, Crediton Community Bookshop will host an Open House Community Business Weekend.?It is being held to celebrate and support community businesses and all that they do.

During the event, Crediton Community Bookshop will share its story and what it has learned along the way.

Anyone who runs a community project or has an idea they would like to get off-the-ground and would like to talk with people from other community enterprises and business advisers is invited to drop-in to the shop during that time and volunteers will do their best to advise, signpost and encourage.?

Alan Quick