… locally grown and bursting with colour and flavour. Your average berry contains 200 seeds, dotted around the outside of the fruit. They are good for us, of course, containing serious amounts of Vitamin C, antioxidants and anti-inflammatories. But for many people strawberries are simply the joyous fruit of summer: the staple diet of Wimbledon, […]

a story that involves naked ambition and a litre of organic milk… let us take you back six years, to this very week and the launch of Ilmington Community Shop. Gregg Woodall, a kind and apparently unassuming member of our community, resolved he was going to be our first paying customer. “Yes,” he recalls, “I […]

– and we are celebrating with a trip down memory lane. We’ve got so many lovely pictures of the build and fit-out of the old Catholic Church on Upper Green. Dozens of volunteers put in physical hard graft to get the shop ready for opening: some working until 1.30am on the morning of opening. At […]

…and supporting village ventures. It communicates news and information to local residents via a weekly circulation email – and every two years the team compile a directory of names and addresses to help us all keep in touch. The Ilmington Directory 2021-22 is now on sale at Ilmington Community Shop. You can’t miss its bright […]

…we thought we’d pin down a vegetarian for some expert thoughts on sustaining a meat-free diet in the Cotswolds. We went one better and found a vegan: the lovely Katrina Eastgate, 25, who lives in Ilmington with her vegetarian dad Gareth and dairy-free mum Jane. “I reckon there are lots of secret vegans and vegetarians […]