…with National Coffee Day and National Coffee Week all falling around now. So we’d like to raise a cup to local company Monsoon Estates Coffee, whose roastery is on the Alscot Estate near Stratford-upon-Avon. Chris Howard and Anne Parker developed their love of good coffee while living in Europe and Australia. Their hand-roasted coffees have […]
Archives for October 2022
No, this isn’t the newest set of volunteer recruits for Ilmington Community Shop!
These lovely young people are Ilmington’s one and only “floorball” team, showing off their new kit with the shop logo emblazoned on it. Pupils from Ilmington School play in a local league of junior schools that feed into Chipping Campden School at senior level. “Thank you so much for your extremely generous donation to Ilmington […]
Do you love waking to the dawn chorus and the sun breaking over the horizon?
This beautiful photograph was taken by a volunteer arriving for work this week at Ilmington Community Shop. The early shift, from 7 to 9am, is a favourite for some volunteers. They appreciate the peacefulness of the morning: baking bread and croissants, taking in deliveries of milk and fresh local vegetables, laying out the daily newspapers. […]
