Charity Commission to investigate SSG

News reports

• From today’s Church Times: Ex-SPCK shops ‘bankruptcy’
• The Bookseller says that the Charity Commission is to investigate SSG: St Stephen the Great files for bankruptcy
• I think the Church of England Newspaper will have a report (Just opened my online copy - nothing there as far as I can see. I thought there might be as I was telephoned.)

Closures and openings

• We think that the shops that have closed since the bankruptcy announcement are:
  Birmingham, Canterbury, Chester, Exeter, Newcastle, Norwich (closing on June 14) Worcester, York. These may be temporary or permanent.
• Salisbury is now open again.
• I’m still attempting to maintain a complete list here.

New map

• On the Third Space books site (Is Third Space books bankrupt or not? Not sure.) a new map of the SSG shops appeared on June 7. Bristol, Carlisle, Lincoln and London have been taken off. Cardiff remains. ‘Leichester’ (not on the old map) has been added.