…and some belong to our special teams: the Saturday Squad or the Gardening Gang, the Cake Bakers or the Maintenance Massive! (OK, we just made that one up, but we do have a dedicated maintenance crew…) Well here before you are members of the Events Squad, wonderful people who bring you our occasional Long Table […]

…curvy amphoras for carrying olive oil and an Iron Age princess’s mirror: on Friday in the café we moved from essential items to objects of enchantment, as archaeologist Brian Meredith described the ancient history of Ilmington, the Stour Valley and the wider Cotswolds area. We learnt about the Black Death and real life, forgotten Manor […]

As the evenings draw in, discover our new ranges of comfort foods from the freezer. Look out for Field Goods: delicious dishes like Tarragon Chicken and Dauphinoise that you don’t have to make yourself. How about the award-winning Supper Club range, with options like Lamb Hot Pot, 3 Bean Chilli and Fish Pie? Or Haddock […]

Neo and Brian both like “finding things” and Brian was interested to see some flint Neo had found in the village. Thousands of years ago, Brian explained, a piece of flint with a natural hole in it might have been used to make jewellery. On Friday afternoon, from 4 to 5pm in the Café, Brian […]

One of our lovely volunteer bakers has offered to make a gluten-free cake every Tuesday. Mandy Plant volunteers for the Shop and Cafe and regularly bakes for us. “I love baking cakes, even though I don’t eat them myself!” she says. “I’ve been asked to master the art of the gluten free cake, so I’m […]