…to retailers at least, this means boxes and boxes of special products to grace our shelves. Assistant Manager Laura Groves spent most of yesterday unpacking the annual mega Holleys Fine Foods order: dozens of luxury items we can’t live without at this time of year. There are chocolate baubles and sugar mice, Baileys truffles and […]

Three-month old Annie with her wave of black hair and one-year-old redhead Fraser, the cool kid in the high chair. We welcome babies of all shapes and sizes at our Parent and Baby Group on Wednesday mornings at Ilmington Community Café. It’s been one of our most successful groups, giving mums and dads, pregnant mums […]

…but Rockin’ Robin refuses to follow our volunteer rotas. He rocks up when he pleases, eyeing the delicious cake (which has been homemade by bakers in Ilmington village.) He chats with customers in a nonchalant manner, and when they push their plates aside, he grabs his chance, pecking and polishing the crockery with great enthusiasm. […]

…with National Coffee Day and National Coffee Week all falling around now. So we’d like to raise a cup to local company Monsoon Estates Coffee, whose roastery is on the Alscot Estate near Stratford-upon-Avon. Chris Howard and Anne Parker developed their love of good coffee while living in Europe and Australia. Their hand-roasted coffees have […]

These lovely young people are Ilmington’s one and only “floorball” team, showing off their new kit with the shop logo emblazoned on it. Pupils from Ilmington School play in a local league of junior schools that feed into Chipping Campden School at senior level. “Thank you so much for your extremely generous donation to Ilmington […]