It must be time to plan our Spring AGM! All members of Ilmington Community Shop and Café are welcome to our Amazing Gathering of Minds in the Village Hall on Tuesday 21st March at 7pm. We want to hear your views and get your votes, and we hope to lure you in with canapés and […]

Lovely Jemma Parnell from The Cottage Garden Florist has been calling with armfuls of red roses, red tulips and other bouquets just perfect for St Valentine’s. Jemma, who’s been based in Shipston for seven years and supplies us with fresh flowers every week, says this is one of her busiest times after Mother’s Day. “I’m […]

… and this is the time of year when we invite more of you to join us. Buying a share for £10 (or more) entitles you to attend the AGM and become a member, with an equal vote in the running of the business. We caught up with Helen Patrick, one of more than 400 […]

A Van Gogh palette of colours over Ilmington Community Shop at dusk yesterday. What the shepherds made of it we don’t know, but its fleeting beauty reminds us how lucky we are to be right here, doing what we do, right now. Photograph by M. Hall

This week we are challenging our manager Michele to source those hard-to-find items, but like any good corner shop, we have a wide range of goods already on the shelves. Drawing pins and Hoisin sauce; tennis balls and bamboo socks; frozen scallops and hand-made earrings, to name a few. “We had an American lady and […]