Studies show that even an hour or two volunteering every week has fantastic benefits for our mental and physical wellbeing. Here are five ways it will do you good: 1. Volunteering connects us with others and improves our social life 2. It builds self-confidence and self-esteem, bringing a sense of accomplishment 3. Volunteering helps the […]

Our amateur Jam Jury convened over pots of tea and lots of homemade scones to taste the strawberry jams in our first Jam Jamboree. A winner was declared: Angela Mason’s homemade strawberry jam is the cream of the crop this summer and we’ll be catching up with Angela soon to award her a bottle of […]

…when the members of our amateur Jam Jury get the chance to taste all your lovely strawberry jam! It’s not too late to enter: just bring us a pot of your unlabelled, homemade jam by 12 noon on Monday 17th July. You stand to win a delicious bottle of Spirit of Ilmington fruit liqueur if […]

…a chance for a glass of wine and a “thank you” to the volunteers who cleaned the building and built the new Coronation Terrace at Ilmington Community Café. There was a short speech and a cutting of the ribbon by our very own Irene Sabin, who, at 85, helped to lay a slab on the […]

Cherries have a relatively short season, so when they arrive at Ilmington Community Shop, we know summer is really upon us. Highly nutritious and extremely yummy, sweet cherries are one of those fruits best eaten as they come. No need for sugar or cream. And you can support your local suppliers by shopping with us