Retail Family-Online Safe Space

20/11/2025

A friendly reminder we have a safe space waiting for you every Monday at 7pm.

In the meantime please visit our website:

https://retailfamily.co.uk

Talking saves lives and we need to be honest about our mental health. It’s alright for boys and men to cry. Mental heath is just as important as physical health.

17/11/2025

What have you done lately just for yourself?

Have you taken any time for self care? Taken time to clear your head?

Too many things to get done to prioritise yourself? Don’t know how to break habits for fear of the business failing?

Start with a phone call. We are online tonight at 7pm and we would love to hear how you are. Our safe space meetings means you can talk about anything life or business related. Anything that’s bothering you. We will listen.

No judgement.

Hopefully see you there.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84571372964?pwd=yneHoWAf3aeibQHV5FIcq4zqaO2Y8n.1

10/11/2025

Tonight’s Safe Space meeting is at 7pm for Retailers

Take a look at our New Website

Www.retailfamily.co.uk

Fill in the form online to find out more how you can access help or get involved in helping others. Together we can provide support to one another in the tough world of independent retailing.

https://us06web.zoom.us/meetings/88622612445/invitations?signature=kdUIWjAwBHd_tEC8TAtWKsI9d_qT9AFTTYkth9HstlM

03/11/2025

Tonight’s meeting is at 7pm

A lot can happen in 7 days; let’s hear how you are doing.

Join us on Zoom:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86223153702?pwd=ftFSCsRznIwHnGlwujTPqzgbB6XBYb.1

27/10/2025

Tonight’s meeting will be at 7pm virtually held on Zoom

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82749418767?pwd=sPh0accq8obpswGhXFf1VAQcOnGjWb.1

Retailers only

20/10/2025

October Half Term here in Scotland is over and out.

Gone in a flash.

How do you all juggle the store, family life and everything in between? We get on with it don’t we?

Do you have your village of support nearby?

Tonight’s meeting let’s check in and openly talk about how we balance life at your Safe Space meeting. 7pm Monday 20th

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86961575631?pwd=1bJRUSRXCpaA4lTX5EU4TX8OyFg8l9.1

13/10/2025

Tonight’s meeting is at 7pm.

Try to come along and let’s see how you are getting on the last wee while.

Believe it or not it’s good to talk. Take a further look at our page

Retailers only

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81455084380?pwd=L0Wq94my4N3WlLaGaVWWa7yKJB5Ec9.1

06/10/2025

Join us tonight at 7pm

Retail Safe space meeting 6th October 🙏🏼

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81120437073?pwd=SMpWwPyHj9U1KtTLGxKVT7B5xrSvg0.1

29/09/2025

Tonight’s Safe Space meeting is at 7pm for Retailers to join and speak safely about their week.

Reach out if you are unsure if it’s for you or unsure of the format.

We go over rules at the beginning of each meeting and everyone has space to speak. If you don’t feel ready to speak; a lot of people find it cathartic to just listen and sharing can come later.

Drop in tonight or any Monday at 7pm

Take care of yourselves 💛

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89220915586?pwd=8T5hnF3bGLDmcvbGi4F47GvKjSczYw.1

22/09/2025

RATE•MY•PLATE

Not literally but let’s look at what we have on our plate.

We have:

⭕️ Really long hours:- we service the public 16-24 hours a day. Our business never sleeps. Do we?

⭕️ Staffing issues:- no matter how wonderful our team is we often experience staff absence, holiday cover and the unexpected.

⭕️ Increasing costs:- We face the cost of living the same as a consumer and often weigh up absorbing some of the cost to keep footfall and custom coming.

⭕️Tax:- the never spoken about subject. We face it at every angle

⭕️Family:- whether it’s balancing our intertwined home life or navigating family working together in business

⭕️Competition:- we are constantly styling new competition. Battle of who is the strongest

⭕️ Our own selves:- we really do put ourselves last. It’s not being heroic or selfless but the sheer extent of sometimes not alway business feeling like survival.

Tonight we will be discussing exactly what’s on our plates. How we manage or maybe how we aren’t just now. Both are fine. Let’s normalise talking it out.

7pm tonight. Retailers only

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82856368433?pwd=sKAZac0xXWtWjTkoNYCspRRvyHTI4I.1

15/09/2025

Tonight at 7pm let’s catch up and see how you are all doing.

Kids are all firmly back to school in all of the UK.

Weather has been up down and all over the place. Challenges continue with Shoplifting abuse and forever proposed changes in legislation.

What has been grinding your goat? Let’s lay it all out on the table. There’s more of us going through the same thing than we think.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87264437426?pwd=hID3u7WACJd0g9vfLuG4MBEpKvsrW9.1

08/09/2025

Now more than ever it has been highlighted to one of the founders the importance of talking and support.

Whilst we ARE retailers, we have families and the balance between it all and managing the business which has to keep going and our life is challenging.

Join us tonight at 7pm to hear how YOU are getting on

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84699876161