Rupert and Emily Robertson are producing hand sanitiser at their gin disillery at Abbots Ripton. - Credit: Archant The village of Abbots Ripton is a small community, which hold a primary school, a church, and a village hall. For one weekend of every year, the tiny village of Abbots Ripton hosted the Secret Garden Party music festival in the grounds of Abbots Ripton Hall, but the event no longer takes place in the village. During the pandemic, villagers have stuck together and supported each other. Emily Moore, clerk of Abbots Ripton Parish Council, said: At the start of the pandemic the parish council set up meetings of all the organisations in the village to devise a strategy