you might cynically presume that it’s factory-made and promoted by a clever marketing team. But Maggie Sorensen, who supplies jam, chutney and marmalade to Ilmington Community Shop, is no marketing ploy: she makes her own wares in her own kitchen with her very own partner Harry Robertson. “We live in sin in Chipping Norton,” she […]

When we asked you to save the date for our National Thank You Day picnic, we must have forgotten to send the memo to Boris! Current Covid rules being what they are – and as today is no longer the hoped-for end to all restrictions – we have decided to amend our plans. So the […]

but here at Ilmington Community Shop we’ve got a date with Dad. We have lots of lovely cards and little gifts to help you get the message across this Sunday, 20th June. And when you’ve purchased the beer or the chocolates, the Ilmington Spirits or the variety box of Hogan’s Cider, all you need to […]

and we are preparing a day of gratitude and community celebration in Ilmington village. There’ll be bell ringing and a dedicated Thanksgiving Service at St Mary’s Church at 11am on Sunday 4th July. Ilmington schoolchildren are even designing their own thank-you bunting for the playground. And from 12 noon, Ilmington Community Shop and Café will […]

The artist lives in Brittany, but is related to a village resident