The terraces at Ilmington Community Café were a riot of colour and activity for our first Celebrating Nature event by volunteer Jane Neate this weekend. Ilmington resident and artist Kathryn Mann painted 12 delightful nature stones, from the Hairy Dragonfly to the Common Green Shield Bug, and youngsters were sent out to find them in […]
“I am passionate about wildlife and conservation” says Jane Neate…
…, a volunteer at the Community Shop and Café. As part of Great Big Green Week, Jane is Celebrating Nature outside the café on Saturday. There will be a stone trail around Ilmington (with beautiful painted stones by @kathrynmannartist), the building of a bug hotel and a stall of pollenating plants by Ilmington florist Leanne […]
There was singing, there was cake and there was an enormous card: it had to be a special birthday weekend!
Congratulations Laura Groves, our wonderful Assistant Manager at Ilmington Community Shop, on the occasion of your 50th birthday. It gave us an excuse to gather and give you hugs and tell you you don’t look your age. Also to eat the delicious Victoria sponge made by volunteer Joan Redhead. Laura, thank you for all you […]
True friendship means sharing your teacake
Today is National Best Friends Day and we’re marking the occasion with a snapshot of two friends who like to catch up at Ilmington Community Café. “We meet in the café most Wednesdays,” says Carol Taylor (left), from Oxhill. She and Nicola Loades, from Newbold Pacey, often meet with another longtime pal, Belinda from Ilmington, […]
As a community business, we love to meet people from other community enterprises, particularly shops and cafes like ourselves.
This weekend, we caught up with Wags and Fiona Firmin all the way from Freshford near Bath. Wags was for three years chair of the committee for “Galleries Shop and Café”, a community business in Freshford village. He even constructed their café building in his retirement. The couple loved Ilmington Community Shop and Café and […]
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