To all our customers, community, supporters, followers, suppliers, shielders, members, volunteers, Valentines and neighbours… We you

At Ilmington Community Shop, we have a range of Valentine’s cards and gifts: hearts made from Harris tweed and recycled jewellery, home-crafted earrings and artisan chocolates. We have iced heart biscuits, cupcakes and sharing cakes; Prosecco and Spirit of Ilmington damson gin. We’ve even got gift bags to put them all in. Love is quite […]

Aged 78 and going on 17, he’s a bundle of energy who’s been volunteering at Ilmington Community Shop since we opened in 2015. He’s kind, he’s funny and he’s very loud. “Use the marmite reference,” he bellows. “Some love him, some hate him.” We all love Geoff really. He’s on the Parish Council and he […]

Please come to the rescue! Thanks to a glitch in the order codes, Ilmington Community Shop has a glut of RJ’s liquorice sticks in stock. Each soft-eating RJ’s Licorice Log is only 85p: now that’s not a lot to transport you from lockdown blues to the flavours of childhood. See you at the sweetie counter

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 […]