00:00I'm Mike and I'm the post office man. They all call me the postie and I've been doing
00:10this for about four years now at Troden. This is one of my very favourite outreaches because
00:15the people are all very nice. It's marvellous what the volunteers have done and what everybody
00:20have done to set this up and keep the village alive.
00:29I'm Jamie Hargreaves. I'm the manager of the Troden Arms. So the pub's owned by the community.
00:35I believe there's 425 shareholders all around that figure. Myself and my wife, we lease
00:42it from them and we have been doing so since January 2023. It's been going swimmingly.
00:52It's been going great ever since we took it on. We always try to make sure we've got enough
00:57choice and availability for anybody that wants to come in, whether it's gluten free, which
01:03is a big thing, or alcoholic beer. We've got a range of 18 different draft products at
01:08any one time.
01:09So the pub was the final piece of the puzzle for the community. They bought it last after
01:16securing the community centre, the shop, the library, the post office, and all that is
01:21solely run by over 120 volunteers. The pub itself has six volunteers.
01:35My name's Molly Ralpherson. I'm the volunteer coordinator here at Troden Forest Community
01:40Centre Library and Shop. So I work 25 hours and I'm one of the only people who is employed.
01:48Everybody else in the organisation are volunteers. They give up their time for free. We've got
01:54the community centre, which is a building that has events on. It has a bar so people
02:00can hire the centre for birthdays and weddings. We've got a license for weddings and it's
02:03used by so many different community groups and it's run by a board of trustees or volunteers.
02:10It takes a lot of people to keep our assets running, volunteering. We've got about 150
02:16people who volunteer in some capacity or other to keep everything going. I mean, the shop
02:21itself needs 68 different people to do two hours a week just to keep the shop open. That's
02:28just serving customers in the shop and keeping the shelves filled. Behind the scenes, obviously,
02:33there's so many more hours that go on in terms of accounting, buying, driving, office. It's
02:40just an endless list and people give up their time for that, 150 of us all together.
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