Studies show that even an hour or two volunteering every week has fantastic benefits for our mental and physical wellbeing. Here are five ways it will do you good: 1. Volunteering connects us with others and improves our social life 2. It builds self-confidence and self-esteem, bringing a sense of accomplishment 3. Volunteering helps the […]

Our amateur Jam Jury convened over pots of tea and lots of homemade scones to taste the strawberry jams in our first Jam Jamboree. A winner was declared: Angela Mason’s homemade strawberry jam is the cream of the crop this summer and we’ll be catching up with Angela soon to award her a bottle of […]

…when the members of our amateur Jam Jury get the chance to taste all your lovely strawberry jam! It’s not too late to enter: just bring us a pot of your unlabelled, homemade jam by 12 noon on Monday 17th July. You stand to win a delicious bottle of Spirit of Ilmington fruit liqueur if […]