Our youngest customers are always welcome at Ilmington Community Café, but Wednesday mornings are the time for our informal Parent and Baby Group. It’s a chance for babies and their carers to meet like-minded company. It also gives us a chance to cuddle and coo – here manager Michele meets George, a brand new resident […]

We meet on the first Tuesday of every month at 2pm over tea and cake. You can read along with us or just come for the company and a good chat. We love to hear your ideas for future reading and we pick all suggestions out of the hat. This month’s choice is Late City […]

…you can do it occasionally; you can do it on your own or with a buddy; you can do it behind the scenes, you can be front of house – there are lots of ways to volunteer for us! This is National Volunteers Week, our chance to thank all the wonderful people who keep the […]

Some people come in for company, others to nurse a coffee and look at the view, others want the WiFi. But: “we’ve come in for electricity!” laughs committee member Sophie Welch. Sophie and her daughter Jemima, aged 16, are both studying for exams this summer. When the electrics went off in their home village of […]

Newborn Carey Isolde Hogan was born on our 10th anniversary and to us she will always be our Birthday Baby. Carey arrived after a three-hour labour and has decided to live with mum Michaela, dad Fergus and big sister Finola as our near neighbour in Ilmington. Seen here getting a pre-emptive cuddle from our shop […]