… , here at Ilmington Community Shop and Café, we are making sure that our customers feel safe and secure. We now allow up to four customers into the shop, but masks must be worn. We follow lots of protocols in the café, too, including Track and Trace registration. Meanwhile, behind the scenes and after […]

Did you have a paper round, or were you given the washing up? Maybe you mowed the neighbour’s lawn or worked in the corner shop? Well, Saturdays are calling again, because this corner shop needs you! At Ilmington Community Shop, we have lots of potential volunteers, but very few regular takers for Saturdays. We’re not […]

… and usually we’d be looking forward to serving hundreds of slices of sponge cake and endless pots of tea on our café terrace. But this year, it was felt it wouldn’t be safe or fair to ask our volunteers to work shoulder-to-shoulder to feed the hoards. So the café will close at 12 noon […]

… locally grown and bursting with colour and flavour. Your average berry contains 200 seeds, dotted around the outside of the fruit. They are good for us, of course, containing serious amounts of Vitamin C, antioxidants and anti-inflammatories. But for many people strawberries are simply the joyous fruit of summer: the staple diet of Wimbledon, […]

a story that involves naked ambition and a litre of organic milk… let us take you back six years, to this very week and the launch of Ilmington Community Shop. Gregg Woodall, a kind and apparently unassuming member of our community, resolved he was going to be our first paying customer. “Yes,” he recalls, “I […]