… 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 […]