News From SUSSED

April 29, 2020 SUSSED Store

SUSSED is open for you 11am - 2pm every Saturday

TAKE TO YOUR SEWING MACHINES WITH OUR PORTHCAWL FACE-MASK MAKERS

Keep your family and the SUSSED family active

Join these crafty volunteers who are fashioning a double-layered face-mask to help Porthcawl residents keep healthy and safe. By purchasing one of our masks not only are you protecting yourself and your family, you are helping us stay open.

Drop off mask donations during our Saturday opening hours. Check out these instructions for making a mask.

Cwtchable Creations, who make our Cwtch/Cariad cushions and aprons, have also provided a selection of masks for both men and women.

Home-made cloth masks are quickly becoming commonplace providing a degree of protection against Covid 19 infection, when combined with frequent hand washing and social-distancing measures.

Reports show that the virus can live in droplets in the air for up to one to three hours after an infected individual has left an area. Covering your face and mouth will help prevent these droplets from getting into the air and infecting others.

Our masks are priced from £2.50. Availability is limited - once they’re gone, they’re gone.

LOCAL HONEY

A spoonful of sweetness helps the medicine go down.

While the rest of us have been on the go slow, the bees of Bridgend have been busy.

Mêl-y-Bryn have hives all around the county producing excellent quality honey, and there is plenty of it in stock at SUSSED for only £6.25.

Local bees forage near-by. Since many seasonal allergies are caused by local pollen, eating honey that contains that pollen can combat those allergies. The purer the honey the stronger the medicinal properties, with anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial benefits to boot.

Bees importantly help to pollinate other plants beneficial for biodiversity and thus other wildlife. As bees are now seriously endangered, it’s even more vital that we support local beekeepers.

Shopping local has tremendous environmental benefits supporting town traders. When it comes to honey you’re helping the planet and also yourself.

Bombus terrestris in Porthcawl this April

VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT

I currently volunteer with SUSSED because I share their values of ethical fair trade and reducing my impact on climate change. I have always shopped here because it’s one of very few places where I can currently shop locally for organic, eco-friendly and plastic free produce, which is very important to me and my family.
Volunteering has allowed me to contribute to my community, gain some new skills and meet a range of really interesting people who are also committed to a sustainable Wales.
Volunteering also affords additional opportunities for local people to gain practical experience and employ ability skills not only in retail, but also by getting involved in other initiatives run from the shop and the Green Room.
Day to day I run Karma Seas CIC, a Porthcawl based not-for-profit surf therapy, yoga and mindfulness social enterprise, where we aim to provide the great benefits of these activities to people who are currently socially and economically excluded. http://www.karmaseas.org.uk

Julia Thomas

Invitation to the SUSSED 2018 AGM for volunteers and members

November 28, 2018 SUSSED Store

INVITATION TO:

SUSSED ANNUAL MEETING & SOCIAL 2017-18

THE GREEN ROOM

WED. 12TH DECEMBER 2018, 7. 00PM

Fairtrade COCKTAILS AND CANAPÉS

Dear SUSSED Supporters,

It is OUR pleasure to invite you to SUSSED Wales’ Annual Meeting 2017/18, 12thDEC 2018, 7:00pm followed by refreshments and buffet. To be held in the Green Room, above SUSSED.

The AGM,we expect, to be quite informal and short. It will update people about SUSSED’s trading, finances and activities and elect the SUSSED board of directors and review volunteer roles and responsibilities.

The Directors are recommending a small change to the membership. All active volunteers are free and automatically become members with all the benefits. They are the ones able to vote at the AGM. Paying members are invited, also to all activities, but do not need to vote. They can contribute ideas and suggestions at anytime during the year. This can be discussed at the AGM.

If anyone would like to stand as a company Director please get in touch before-hand. Or maybe you would like to volunteer not only with shop sales, but other tasks like volunteer coordination, membership development, administration, finances, product information research, communications, IT or events ? We would be delighted to hear from you.

Were you once a paid up member? You can restart your membership and your special discount by using the form at SUSSED or online at http://www.sussedwales.com/join/

As a community cooperative our volunteers, supporters and membership are central to the organisation. We are a democratic and thus participatory organisation – we need not only your commitment to shop at SUSSED but also your ideas.

Indeed, as community members you have a stake in the business as you are in fact the “owners”. Thus, we appreciate it when people attend the AGM and give us feedback.

Afterwards let’s celebrate the fact that our community actually has a shop like SUSSED.

We hope that you can attend what should be an enjoyable evening.

Please RSVP, via email (mm@sustainablewales.org.uk) or phone (01656783962) to ensure there is an appropriate amount of seating and refreshments available.

Best Wishes

Margaret Minhinnick on behalf of all the Directors SUSSED (Luke Evans, Martin Little, Robert Minhinnick, Peter Morgan, Melanie Johnson)