Your Sauvignon from your Shiraz? Or is it all red and white to you?! Expert or enthusiast, come and exercise your palette at our Wine Tasting event on Friday night. The Broadway Wine Company professionals are hosting at Ilmington Community Café and there will be lots of lovely wines to savour. Plus you get 10% […]

We’ve got all the dates you need, from Shakespeare Day to the King’s Coronation, in our fabulous Treasures of Ilmington Calendar. Amateur photographers have captured the lesser-known details of our beautiful Cotswold village to illustrate each page and form a pictorial treasure hunt. There are fossils and ancient furrows, carved mice and secret doors… all […]

1. We stock some scarily good products, 2. We provide a shockingly personal service for all our customers and 3. We are eerily local, which means WE KNOW WHERE MOST OF YOU YOU LIVE! Don’t get tricked this Hallowe’en, come and treat yourselves in Ilmington Community Shop. We promise to lift your spirits!

Tina and nine year-old Darcey, who moved into Ilmington a month ago. Darcey’s a bit young for volunteering yet, but shadowing mum is a great way to make the most of the half term holiday. Was she named after Darcey Bussell? “Well I wanted her to do ballet,” admits Tina, “but it’s horses all the […]

But we’ve been lucky: every Monday morning, fish man Leigh MacCall from Grimsby brings a taste of the ocean to our door. Leigh drives to Ilmington from the famous Grimsby Fish Market in North East Lincolnshire, opening the doors of his refrigerator van to reveal a world of fish, from trout to tuna, white fish […]