We will be showcasing some fabulous local suppliers in Ilmington Village Hall from 6 to 8pm on Thursday. You’ll find gift stalls and hot food, a cash bar and a great Ilmington welcome. Meet the local makers and small suppliers who depend on your business. And if you’d like to pre-order a homemade hot supper, […]

Every year the Community Shop gathers together some of favourite local artisans and suppliers – and there’ll be new faces too. We bring you Harris Tweed cushions, amazing stationery, personalised gifts, natural beauty, pyrography, venison, Henley Chocolates and Spirit of Ilmington flavoured vodkas. There’s a cash bar and a homemade two-course dinner available to preorder […]

Hosted by the Olympian diver Tom Daley, who famously took up knitting during lockdown, amateur knitters gather in the Scottish highlands for challenges that include covering an entire settee and designing knitted swimwear – a la 1960s! Here in the Cotswolds, our seasoned knitters meet in the Community Café on the fourth Wednesday of every […]

Ilmington’s Remembrance service begins at the war memorial on Upper Green at 10.45am and continues in St Mary’s Church. The Community Shop is open until 1pm, but we will pause at 11am for two minutes’ silence

In a change of pace, this month’s choice is a collection of short stories by the New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield. Mansfield, who moved to England in 1907 and associated with the Bloomsbury Group, wrote about modern topics like anxiety, sexuality and religion. The Doll’s House explores themes of class and rigid social structures, especially […]