We are delighted to announce that we are now able to offer National Lottery and Scratchcards at our Bishop's Castle store. Open 7am until 8pm Monday to Saturday and 8am to 6pm on a Sunday, call in, fill up and play; you never know 'it might be you'!

Bishops Castle Lottery (04/08/2010)

It's countdown to Funday 2010, with only a few days to go before the big day, Sunday August 1st. Held on the first Sunday in August every year at our Churchstoke Country Park, Funday 2010 opens its gates to the public at 10am. Admission prices are £3 for an Adult and £1 for children ...

Funday 2010 (19/07/2010)

It's all change at our Cleobury store as Graham Bullock, on the right in the photograph, says goodbye to staff and customers and introduces the new manager, Rob Fumagalli. Graham Bullock was this week introducing his replacement Rob Fumagalli to the team and also saying a fond goodbye to regular ...

New Manager for Cleobury (07/07/2010)

Making a difference locally fund benefits established Burwarton Show. A cheque for £600 was presented this week to Burwarton Show, as a donation from ourselves via 'Making a Difference Locally'. In addition to the presentation, representatives from the committee of Burwarton show were given ...

Burwarton Show (23/06/2010)

Welcome to the latest addition to our Churchstoke Country Park, Fallow Deer fawn Ruby Lou, born on the 16th June. Now a familiar sight in Britain, Fallow Deer are usually thought to have been introduced by the Normans, but recent archaeological discoveries at Fishbourne Roman Palace seem to ...

Ruby Lou (21/06/2010)

40 years celebrated at Churchstoke Post Office.

(Photograph shows Mr Roy Delves with Mr Bob Gwilliam, who manages the Post Office on a day-to-day basis, and Mrs Mary Herbert who works part time behind the counter). There were celebrations at ...

Forty Years On (07/06/2010)

Students of the University of Gloucestershire are one step closer towards putting a kitchen in a new school in Uganda, by raising a superb £145 last week, just by getting their hands wet and soapy and washing cars outside Tuffins supermarket in Lydney. Rhian Thompson, organizer of the ...

Charity Car Wash (19/05/2010)

Annual Green Awards 2010.

Churchstoke Recycling (06/05/2010)

Montgomeryshire Emergency Doctors (MEDs) benefit from Funday.

MEDs benefit from Funday (29/04/2010)

With the help of Ludlow Town Football club and the Plough Inn at Wistanstow, our Craven Arms store managed to raise a superb £618 in aid of Sports Relief last week; and they had a great time! Ludlow Town FC gave their ground up for the evening free of charge to enable the two teams, the ...

Tuffins do Sports Relief (14/04/2010)

We have recently promoted one of our store managers, Neil Eldridge to the the post of Area Manager, overseeing and supporting all Tuffins stores and directly assisting the senior management team at Headquarters in Churchstoke, Powys. Neil's 34 years extensive knowledge of the retail sector ...

Promotion from within (06/04/2010)

We were delighted this week to present a cheque at Churchstoke for £4000 to Hope House from the Monies made at Funday 2009. Hope House Children’s Hospices in Oswestry and Ty Gobaith in Conwy rely almost entirely upon donations and on individuals who fundraise on their behalf. This ...

Cheque Award to Hope House (27/03/2010)

This week we celebrated in style by distributing funds raised at our 2009 award winning charity funday to local community groups and charities.  Representatives from various community organizations gathered at Tuffins in Churchstoke, Ludlow, Knighton, Craven Arms and Cleobury Mortimer this ...

Cheque Awards from Funday 2009 (20/03/2010)

Congratulations to Churchstoke Forecourt for winning Texaco’s mystery shop programmme. The Programme awarded 100 per cent on a recent on the spot visit to Churchstoke, making it full marks for the past three visits. We now rank top out of 882 forecourts in England and Wales Martin ...

Texaco Mystery Shopper (10/03/2010)

Congratulations to our two newest stores, Lydney and Coleford, both open this month. Lydney store opened on Wednesday 10th February at 9am with Coleford following one week later on Wednesday 17th February. Councillor Terry Glastonbury, Mayor of Lydney, and Ann Boulton the longest serving ...

New Stores Open (17/02/2010)

Our Ludlow Store recently received some good news from Lottery HQ informing us that we had recently sold a winning National Lottery ticket. A lucky customer has scooped winnings of £250,000 on Thunderball. The winner has opted for no publicity so National Lottery are not able to ...

Lottery Win (22/12/2009)

We are very excited to announce two new stores for 2010; Lydney & Coleford. Both are currently trading as Somerfield stores and will continue to do so until we take over in early February. MD Mr Paul Delves, Operations Director Mr Richard Whittall and General Manager Mr Mark Williams were ...

New Stores (24/11/2009)

Friday 30th october was 'Wear it Pink 2009' day and staff in all our stores, including the 'not-naturally-drawn-to-wearing-pink' Warehouse staff joined in. They paid £2 each for the privilege of 'pinking it up', with all funds collected going to the Breast Cancer Campaign. See pictures ...

Wear it Pink 2009 (02/11/2009)

Our Ludlow store is celebrating the scooping of two top prizes at the 2009 Forecourt Trader of the Year Awards. Tuffin’s at

Forecourt Trader Awards (07/10/2009)

Our Churchstoke store hosted the Heart of Wales Road run for vintage lorries on Saturday 12th September. Now in its 11th year, this annual event is a fun run for vintage lorries with over 40 taking part this time. This year's itinerary saw them depart from Caterpillar Tractors at Shrewsbury, ...

Heart of Wales Road Run (12/09/2009)

Grants totalling over £11,000 have so far been awarded to local charities and organisations by Harry Tuffins and NISA from the 'Making A Difference - Locally' fund. Set up by NISA for the express ...

MADL update Aug 2009 (28/08/2009)

Our joint Chairman, Mr Roy Delves is presented  with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the national Convenience Retail Awards which were held at the Marriott Grosvenor Square Hotel, London on 19th March 2009. Photograph shows (from left to right) Beth Phillips from 'The Grocer' magazine, ...

Roy's Lifetime Achievement Award (24/03/2009)

Receipts from our best-ever Funday totalled an amazing £30,000 which we are now distributing amongst local charities and good causes. So far over 2/3rds has been allocated. Cheque presentations took place in our Cleobury Mortimer, Knighton, Ludlow and Craven Arms stores on Friday ...

Funday Cheque Presentations (14/01/2009)

With their Craven Arms shop helping to ‘stoke-up’ church funds, local independent retailer Harry Tuffins has over the last twelve-months helped raise an amazing £389 for the coffers of their local parish church, Stokesay Church in Shropshire. Harry Tuffins General Manager, ...

25p Stokes Church Funds (21/05/2008)

With energy prices souring and the cost of fuel continuing to be passed on to consumers as businesses struggle to make a profit, forward thinking family run independent retailer, Harry Tuffins, is bucking the energy spend trend, by ensuring their customers don’t feel the financial pinch ...

Retailer Burns as Fuel Prices Rocket (21/05/2008)

Helping commemorate a quarter of a century of trading in the beautiful Welsh town of Knighton, loyal employees of independent retailer Harry Tuffins marked the occasion by thanking Irene Goodall and Joan Thomas, who together have worked for the company for over 50 years. Both Irene and Joan ...

Loyal employees celebrate 25 Years with local retailer (07/05/2008)

With ice on the ground and thick fog covering much of the local area, the first of this year’s new spring lambs has been born at Harry Tuffins Country Park in Churchstoke. The strong low lying sun of spring warming the ground has encouraged many animals and plants that spring is really ...

Harry Tuffins Country Park welcomes first lamb of spring (29/04/2008)

Already attracting a huge amount of exhibitor interest and securing bookings from as far afield as Yorkshire, the Midlands, Cheshire, Worcestershire and Pembrokeshire, this year’s Charity Fun Day will again be held at local independent retailer Harry Tuffins Country Park, Churchstoke, ...

Entries flood in to support community Fun Day (01/04/2008)