A pot of tea, a slice of homemade cake and long village views are the simple formula which gave us a busy first weekend on the café terrace. Please note, the café isn’t open on Mondays, not even Bank Holidays right now, nor on Friday mornings until noon. Thank you to all our volunteers who […]

Welcome back to Ilmington Community Café, where we are trying a very different approach following lockdown! As a community-run cooperative, we’ve harnessed volunteer horsepower to create a friendly space for coffee, cake and tea. The highlights of our simple terrace menu are the delicious homemade sponges and fruit loaves, brownies and tray bakes that have […]

The café will be very different this time around, with a volunteer crew and the simplest of menus. Think community coffee house with cake, rather than commercial café. In fact, cake is what we excel at! Stanley enjoyed his hot chocolate and shared a game of “nee naw” with manager Michele. His Nana lives in […]

Every evening she feeds a family of six or seven in their Ilmington home: and how do you cope when some are meat eaters, some vegetarian, others are vegan and “everything has to be nut free!” As Alison politely puts it, “It can be a little bit difficult.” Then during lockdown, Alison discovered that her […]

It even has protected food status. If you live near Evesham, you’ll have experienced the annual asparagus festival, from the harvesting of the first rounds in April (a round is a bundle of 15 spears) to the end of the harvest in June or July. Ilmington Community Shop is just nine miles from The Fleece […]