…and we’d like to invite entries from neighbouring villages as well as our own! Buying your Seville oranges and other ingredients from us is a wonderful way to support our cooperative community shop. You have until Thursday 17th February to deliver your unlabelled jars of citrusy deliciousness to Ilmington Community Shop for double-blind judging the […]

…in Ilmington yesterday and we want to give you fair warning of our next book choice. We’ll be reading To Kill A Mockingbird, the Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece by Harper Lee. Set in 1930s Alabama, the heart of the deep South, the novel turns on the false accusation of a black man and the attempts of […]

…and we’ve got a friendly book club just for you. Meeting on the first Tuesday of the month (i.e. tomorrow) at 2pm, we welcome anyone who enjoys a good discussion and would like to make new friends. It doesn’t matter if you’ve read the book, we’ve got the kettle on and cake homemade by village […]

We do occasionally sell flowers in Ilmington Community Shop and we love it when we do. Spring has sprung as you can see, with bunches of dainty daffs tempting us to believe that longer, warmer days really are in view. We think Wordsworth would have approved…

Ann Sabin last visited our café in November and we heard that she passed away on Thursday 20th January. Ann and her husband Michael were married in the Catholic Church that is now the home of our community shop. Around the time of their visit, they were celebrating their 55th wedding anniversary and sharing memories […]