What are you going to do with the brightly-coloured fruit and vegetables of autumn? Down at Ilmington Community Shop, we’re having a little “Compotition” to encourage you to show off your jellies and jams, pickles and preserves. Whatever’s local and seasonal works for us, and of course you can buy/order supplies from the shop. Our […]

…and we want to encourage you to bring a friend to work at Ilmington Community Shop and Café! On the day the government furlough scheme ends, we realise we’ve lost a lot of our lockdown volunteers. So we are thinking of ways to entice you back to help out at the shop counter or in […]

Down at the Ilmington Community Shop volunteer pig roast on Sunday, we raised a glass to the wonderful volunteers who run Ilmington Community Shop and Café. We want all our volunteers to enjoy being part of our community team, and we love to say thank you with a party. It’s been a long time since […]

…we are celebrating local farmers and artisans. On Thursday 14th October, we are staging an evening Farmers’ Market in Ilmington Village Hall to showcase the growers and bakers, creators and makers in our area. We’ve invited cheese and chocolate producers, gin distillers and rare wool breeders… some brands we stock in Ilmington Community Shop and […]

…we are celebrating seasonal, local produce. Here at Ilmington Community Shop, we prefer foods that haven’t travelled hundreds of miles to reach us, or been packed in cellophane with manufactured CO2. And to celebrate the abundance around us, we are throwing a little “Compotition”! Customers are invited to enter their homemade preserves – jams and […]