You’ve been peeling and preserving, chopping and conserving and the day is nearly here… next Friday 12th February is the deadline for the Great Ilmington Marmalade Challenge at Ilmington Community Shop! Many of you have already delivered your homemade Seville orange marmalade, like little rays of sunshine, into the shop, and we’ve been looking after […]

Most of the friendly faces in Ilmington Community Shop are volunteers from the village itself. But not all. Caroline Fisher is one of a handful of helpers who hail from outside Ilmington. Caroline, 61, lives in Northwick Park Estate near Blockley in Gloucestershire. We’ve got volunteers from Shipston and Tredington, Ebrington and Cherington too – […]

Calling all romantics and anyone who wants to treat themselves during lockdown! We want you to think ahead to Valentine’s Night on Sunday 14th February. Here at Ilmington Community Shop we are poised to help you create a Big Night In. Shake out the tablecloth, light the candles and let us provide the ingredients. How […]

Some people do it the same time every week. Others do it as and when. We’re talking about our floating volunteers: the folk who are there for us, on call, when the going gets tough or the volunteer rota looks bare. Meet Selina and Izzy Brown, mother and daughter volunteer team at Ilmington Community Shop. […]

We don’t have haggis and – you’ll be relieved to hear – we won’t be bringing out the bagpipes, but we are feeling a little bit Scottish this Burns Night! Here at Ilmington Community Shop we’ve got snow on the hills and we can sell you a wee dram of Scotch to warm your heart […]