After a week of being closed, the Community Café reopens its doors today, serving cake homemade in the kitchens of Ilmington. Featuring Kat’s Chocolate Cake with Malteser Crumb

…One on a mission to help out and another on a mission to see the Queen. Angy Okland, on the left, is 76 and she lives in Atlanta, Georgia, a mere 4,000 miles away. “I fly over twice a year because my son is a Delta pilot,” says Angy, “but this time I’ve really come […]

New in at Ilmington Community Shop this week are the pretty purple-sprouting and vivid Romanesco broccolis, both grown in Cotswold fields by Drinkwaters of Ebrington. These brassicas are delicious with a knob of our salted Netherend Farm Butter, which is from Gloucestershire too. From farm to fork in a hop, skip and a jump…

We love a pop up, especially one that gives us inspiration for eco shopping. From bamboo products to herbal toilet bombs, The Eco Weigh brings us alternatives to the toxins and plastics we’d like to avoid. These beautiful soaps from Cherry Tree Naturals are hand-made in Warwickshire and feature exotic-sounding ingredients: apricot kernel oil, elderflower […]

…we shall be closing the community shop at 10.30am on Monday 19th September. Opening for three hours from 7.30am will allow our customers to buy commemorative issues of the day’s newspapers along with fresh bread and other supplies. We will reopen as normal on Tuesday 20th September