Local Community News

A group of talented students from Curtain Call Creative, the Island’s triple-threat performing arts academy, have secured a prestigious performance opportunity at the renowned Mayflower Theatre in Southampton. Selected to take part in the Summer Youth Programme production of Bugsy...

The latest round of 'Pitch To The Panel' as part of the Young Enterprise programme, delivered by Ed-WISE on the Isle of Wight, was a great success. The competition sees student teams launch and trade as a genuine business for...

The community of Nettlestone and Seaview gathered to say goodbye to Charles and Linda Brading yesterday (Tuesday), as the respected retail couple hung up their uniform for the last time. For the past 80 years - and over 3 generations...

Applications for this year’s Isle Of Wight Book Awards are now open. There are 3 categories, with the awards’ founder Hunter Davies judging the fiction books, Alan Titchmarsh will this year be judging the non-fiction entries, and this year they...

More than 60 students from schools across the Isle of Wight recently took part in a tabletop exercise, playing out a disaster scenario as part of Ed-WISE's Resilience Challenge. Ed-WISE, the local education charity whose purpose is to increase life...

More than 70 children took part in an Easter egg hunt in East Cowes over the Bank Holiday weekend as the community came together at the Community Spirited Café on Vectis Road. With the help of the wider East Cowes...

Over £4,000 has been raised to support an Isle of Wight family, whose 1-year-old son Reggie is tackling an auto-immune disease and is set to undergo a bone marrow transplant later this month. In less than 3 weeks' time, little...

Students from Isle of Wight College have been learning new skills, whilst helping Wight Nature Fund trustees breathe new life into Mill Copse - a popular public-access woodland to the south of Yarmouth. The students from the Uniformed Public Services...

First Act spookily staged a sumptuous play and cabaret show at Shanklin Theatre just before the Easter Break. The company of adults plus support workers working together made a fun engaging evening all round that really showed off the diverse...

Free Food in Sandown, a pivotal charity based in Sandown led by Dott Perrett, has been honoured with a High Sheriff's Award. This prestigious award, presented by High Sheriff Dawn Haig-Thomas, highlights the charity's significant contributions to combating poverty and...