…, a volunteer at the Community Shop and Café. As part of Great Big Green Week, Jane is Celebrating Nature outside the café on Saturday. There will be a stone trail around Ilmington (with beautiful painted stones by @kathrynmannartist), the building of a bug hotel and a stall of pollenating plants by Ilmington florist Leanne […]

Congratulations Laura Groves, our wonderful Assistant Manager at Ilmington Community Shop, on the occasion of your 50th birthday. It gave us an excuse to gather and give you hugs and tell you you don’t look your age. Also to eat the delicious Victoria sponge made by volunteer Joan Redhead. Laura, thank you for all you […]

Today is National Best Friends Day and we’re marking the occasion with a snapshot of two friends who like to catch up at Ilmington Community Café. “We meet in the café most Wednesdays,” says Carol Taylor (left), from Oxhill. She and Nicola Loades, from Newbold Pacey, often meet with another longtime pal, Belinda from Ilmington, […]