Come and get your Hallowe’en supplies from us! Wishing you all a suitably scary weekend…

…as the final entries rolled in for our autumn Compôtition! And we have a winner… Professional food judge Wendy Larner put your preserves through their paces and declared Anna Sabin’s Pear and Walnut Chutney to be Top of the Compotes. Equal runners-up are Mark O’Keefe’s Mirabelle Plum Jam and Susan Brock’s Apple and Orange Cider […]

…we’ve got some lovely new blankets to keep you warm when we reopen tomorrow at 10.30am! Some of our customers and dog walkers prefer to sit outside, and our cosy blankets are just the ticket as we go into autumn. Modelling the new look are Maurice and Liz Bott, seen here with Liz’s sister Joan […]

As we enter a period of annual staff leave, there may be a few days of closure in our volunteer-run café. We will be reopening at 10.30am on Friday morning. Please look out on social media for possible days of closure next week. The community shop will continue to open as advertised and these are […]

This is the final week of our little Compôtition at Ilmington Community Shop. We want to see your homemade plum preserves and taste your apple compotes! Thursday is the cut-off date for entries, sweet or savoury, and the recipe is up to you. Although we hope you’ll buy some ingredients from us, it’s not compulsory. […]