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Ilsington Community Market

Saturday 5 December 2015

1 – 4pm at Ilsington Village Hall

Come and join us for a Christmas Market with a Difference!

The Ilsington Community Market is now a regular event at the Village Hall enabling us to buy locally produced food and crafts……and all right on your doorstep!

Our Christmas Market has a wide variety of stalls selling traditional and modern handmade crafts, locally made jams and honey, jewellery, pretty gifts, delicious cakes, framed prints, local meats and vegetables.

Come along and choose your Christmas presents and treats in a lovely festive atmosphere. There will also be a Christmas raffle and Christmas music as well as mince pies and mulled wine.

As usual the café offers a great place to catch up with friends and neighbours and enjoy delicious turkey baps, mince pies and hot drinks.

A community table is available if you have a few surplus vegetables, jams or plants to sell. Just bring along your priced items and we will sell them for you!

Any profits from the running of this market will be donated to a local charity.

If you would like a stall at the market, please contact Su on 01364 661318.

Hope to see you all there!

On the 10 October at the Community Market, the exciting results of the Ilsington Shop Community Awards 2015 were announced. Seven organisations from the Parish applied for funds and we are happy to announce that EVERYONE was successful! The shop gave a total of £5110 to worthwhile causes.

1. £500 was given to the Friends of Ilsington School towards a collection of wooden toadstool-style seating stools for the school field.

2.£250 was given to the Friends of Simms View towards Christmas craft activities and a party, including transport to the event for the elderly and normally housebound locals.

3. £250 was given to the Ilsington Netball Club towards the purchase of a kit bag of equipment as well as affiliation fees.

4. £750 was given to Ilsington Preschool for a living willow dome installation (including materials and ground preparation).

5. £60 was given to the Ilsington Primary School Council for classroom recycling boxes.

6. £1800 was given to Ilsington Village Hall for a portable stage

7. £1500 was given to the 1st Liverton Scout Group towards the purchase of replacement equipment necessary for week-long camps (notably tents, benches and fridges).

All of this is only possible because of the wonderful volunteers who generously give their time to help out in our shop and because of the wonderful customers from far and wide who continue to visit our shop. Give yourselves a huge pat on the back. We couldn’t do this without you!

Ilsington Community Market

Saturday 10 October 2015

1 – 4pm at Ilsington Village Hall

Come and join us for a Harvest Market with a Difference!

The Community Market is now a regular event at the Village Hall enabling us to buy locally produced food and crafts……and all right on your doorstep!

A wide variety of stalls will be selling traditional and modern handmade crafts and gifts and locally produced meat, jams and honey.

This market has a harvest theme so come along and try your hand at making your own apple juice! We will have a traditional basket apple press available to turn your surplus apples into juice for drinking or making into cider. Please bring along a suitable container to carry your juice home in. Pasteurised apple juice will be available on the day so everyone can have a taste.

If you purchase something from any stall holder at the market, you will be entered into a FREE raffle (drawn at the market) with a chance to win a shop voucher or a bottle of fizz!

As usual the café offers a great place to catch up with friends and neighbours and enjoy delicious bacon baps, cakes and hot drinks.

The announcement of the 2015 Community Shop Award Beneficiaries will be made at the market at 3pm.

If you would like a stall at the market, please contact Su on 01364 661318.

Hope to see you all there!

On Saturday we are launching a new shop loyalty card for customers using the cafe: Buy five hot drinks and get a sixth free!

Emma will be handing out these new cards at the Community Market on Saturday 10 October at the Village Hall. Come along between 1pm and 4pm and collect a free stamp on the card to get you started as well as enjoying a traditional craft and local produce market.

Ilsington Community Market

Saturday 27 June 2015

1 – 4pm at Ilsington Village Hall

Come and join us for a Summer Market with a Difference!

The Community Market is now a regular event at the Village Hall enabling us to buy locally produced food and crafts……and all right on your doorstep!
This market is full of traditional and modern handmade crafts – perfect for gifts or for treating yourself.

NEW! This month there is a FREE competition open to all children. Create a MINIATURE GARDEN (no bigger than 20cm square!) and bring it along to the market for a chance to win the Ilsington Challenge Cup.

If you purchase something from Ilsington Village Shop in the two weeks before the market, remember to ask for your Community Loyalty Raffle Ticket. Hand it to any stall holder at the Market (excluding the café) when you buy something, and you will be entered into a FREE raffle (drawn at the market) with a chance to win a shop voucher or a bottle of fizz!

As usual the café offers a great place to catch up with friends and neighbours and enjoy delicious bacon baps, cakes and hot drinks.

A community table is available if you have a few surplus vegetables, jams or plants to sell. Just bring along your priced items and we will sell them for you!

If you would like a stall at the market, please contact Su on 01364 661318.

Hope to see you all there!

Ilsington Village Shop Association Limited would like to invite applications
for a share of this year’s fantastic amount of £5000!

Applications must be received on the official application form by Friday 24th July 2015.

The form and the selection criteria are on our website under Our Projects.

Awards will be made in October 2015.

What started as a simple idea from the Eden Project turned out to be a huge gathering of over 100 friends and neighbours who all came together to enjoy a BBQ lunch and a chat. The shop provided some yummy burgers whilst everyone else brought a salad or a pudding. What a lovely day! Thank you, Anne for all your hard work.

Kevin Carr is due to finish his incredible round the world run this evening at the Haytor top carpark at approximately 6.30pm. Because we all want to be there to welcome our local barman home like a true hero, the shop will be closed from 5pm to 6pm this evening.

For more information and to make a donation, please go here:

http://hardwayround.com/

See you all later!