Local Community News

Newport nursery Clever Cloggs, located at Wellington Road, is appealing for funding to provide the optimum learning environment for special needs pre-schoolers...

Cowes residents will be able to sing themselves into happiness when local arts for wellbeing charity, Independent Arts, opens its latest SingAbout group. The...

‘The magic of Home-Start is clearly on display on the Isle of Wight’ – that’s from national charity chief Peter Grigg on his visit to the Isle of...

Wightlink is celebrating winning The News Business Excellence Award for Sustainability 2022.   The achievement recognises the successful introduction of...

60 years ago today (Friday), farm worker Edwin Llewellyn Price saved 5 lives by dragging survivors from the wreckage of a burning plane on St Boniface Down. On...

The award-winning Vectis Radio 4Ps project has received a financial boost thanks to the generosity of local Freemasons. The project, which helps young people...

A Bank Holiday Weekend reception held at Barton Manor in support of Ukrainian refugees has raised in excess of £6,000 for an East Cowes charity. Hosted by Dawn...

When members of the Royal Victoria Yacht Club suggested organising a fundraising event for Ukraine a few weeks ago, they had no idea how it would turn out. The...

Wessex Cancer Trust is launching a new ‘Sing for Life’ choir on the Isle of Wight.  The charity currently runs 3 other popular choirs in Totton...

Local Isle of Wight drag performer Fanny Quivers competed and won her 3rd open heat for the nationwide drag competition, Drag Idol UK, at the historic Admiral...

Volunteers from Ventnor Rugby Club became caterers at Watcombe Bottom and raised £500 for charity during the Isle of Wight Randonnee on Sunday (1st May). More...

3 bands – Abbey Brass, Cowes Concert Band and Vectis Brass – joined forces for Brass for Ukraine at Christ the King College, Newport on Sunday (1st May). A...

UKSA in Cowes has announced a new ‘Autumn Outings’ secondary school residential programme in response to increased demand for experiences in the maritime...

Isle and Empires: Romanov Russia, Britain, and the Isle of Wight is to be reprinted as Putin’s invasion of Ukraine strains Anglo-Russian relations to the hilt...

Local parents are being invited to monthly guided buggy walks that encourage fresh air, exercise and conversation. The buggy walks are being organised by...

38 excited students from Carisbrooke College, Medina College and The Island VI Form set off on the Fishbourne ferry at the start of the Easter break for an...