After successfully raising more than £240,000 towards the preservation of its village shop and post office, Chardstock Community Shop Limited (CCSL) has enjoyed further success with news received that it has received two grants.

Blackdown Hills AONB Sustainable Development Fund and The Norman Family Charitable Trust have both approved grants to CCSL in order to help with equipment and fitting out of the shop once it begins operating as a community run shop in two to three months time. 

A spokesman for CCSL said: "We are extremely grateful to both these organisations who recognised raising money to preserve the village shop was just the first stage of our journey.

"We need additional funding to see through the wishes of the community to provide a really attractive, and enlarged, village hub."

CCSL will continue to pursue grant funding over the coming months