Member of the Month – Sky Delights

“Like Santa, our elves help us all year round; but only come out at Christmas time. After all, we are an Elf Food Shop…” take a careful look in the windows of this wonderful shop for further Christmas based cheer…

SKY Delights is based on Leopold Street and has three part-time employees (Freya, Jae and Jake). Sam is the owner, and has a very part-time volunteer brother (Chris).  Interesting fact: The name SKY Delights comes from Sam’s initials (Samantha Katherine Young).

Sam started the business on Leopold Street in 2010, having taken voluntary redundancy from lecturing in nursing in Inverness.  She wanted to approach health from a different, yet complementary angle.

Opportunity

At the time, Nairn was about to lose both its deli and its health food shop. Sam shopped in both so wanted to create a place to do her own shopping! Today they sell ethically sourced food, drinks (Sam reckons the best take away coffee in Nairn – but there are a lot of candidates for that particular prize!), supplements, toiletries, cleaning products, essential oils, fresh fruit and veg and a veritable wall full of teas.

Sam’s nursing and sociology backgrounds helped shape a shop that prioritises the health of the land (products are organic where possible); the health of the person (we are what we eat and if we need supplementary help, nature usually has an answer); and embraces the weird, wonderful and extremely tasty! SKY Delights love questions and will try to find answers/options whenever they can.

A collective voice

Sam says that the BID allows small independent businesses to have a collective voice and provides them with both local and regional information that is relevant to their needs. They also find that they are still welcoming new customers who are Nairn born and bred, but who haven’t been in to see them before. The shop is a veritable tardis of delights and, once inside, most people find something they like.

Bespoke shopping

The range of products is always developing and they are happy to order in non-stock items for their customers. If you want a bespoke hamper box for anyone, let them know and they will create a feast of flavours according to the person’s needs. Specific dietary requirements are their speciality.

As one means of thanking old friends and welcoming new customers, they are inviting everybody to join them for mulled drinks and nibbles on Friday 22nd December from 3pm.

One thing Sam loves about Nairn is the fact it takes so long to walk down Nairn High Street due to the amount of folk to say hello to.

The website is www.skydelights.co.uk.

They are open Monday to Saturday 9-5 and can be contacted by phone 01667 452874 or email: orders.skydelights@gmail.com.

You can also find them on Facebook: https://facebook.com/SKYDelightsNairn or Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skydelightsnairn

We are grateful to have such a lovely independent shop in Nairn and very appreciative of their Christmas wit!