He drives down from Grimsby on a Monday, direct from the famous fish market to Ilmington and surrounding villages. Leigh has been on holiday for the past two weeks but he’s back on Monday, and when you’ve bought your fresh salmon or your dressed crab, why not pop into the Community Shop for fresh veg […]

On Sunday we did just that, with a Volunteer Party and Pig Roast in the village. Committee member Fiona Dakin and husband Paul kindly gave up their garden on this balmy afternoon and local butcher Robbie Walker delivered a superb hog roast with all the trimmings. Thank you volunteers, each and every one! You enhance […]

Any recipe is fine – including other fruit and flavours – so long as there are strawberries involved. We sell delicious strawberries and pectin sugar in our shop, but you don’t need to purchase from us. Please deliver your unlabelled homemade jam to us by 12 noon on Monday 17th July to be in with […]

She set herself a challenge of 100 skips a day for a month and decided to end her challenge by doing 100 skips every hour of her working day. “That makes it 1,000 skips in one day,” said Michele, “then I hang up the rope for ever!” Michele has recently been shedding stones with Slimming […]

Enjoying his volunteer cappuccino as he starts his shift, Stuart (who was born in the UK but emigrated 49 years ago,) explained how he came to be 10,589 miles from home. “I’ve got a lot of friends living in the area,” he says, “and I came to a wedding in Ilmington this time last year. […]