Local Community News

A 28-year-old health worker from Stourport-on-Severn is attempting to run around the Isle of Wight in less than 24 hours next week to raise funds for Help for Heroes – but has been left without a support driver for the...

Ryde Museum's 'Night at the Museum' event proved a huge success with vital funds raised to help secure the museum's future. As previously reported by Island Echo, the Museum of Ryde feared for the future with funds running low and overheads...

Ryde Beach Lifeguards completed their annual cross-Solent Swim from Ryde to Gosport last Friday (28th July), raising funds for new equipment. 5 lifeguards completed the 3-mile swim in a time of 1hr 50mins. Safety cover was provided by Griffin Marine...

Fundraiser Penny Langborne has successfully completed an 'utterly gruelling' 74.6-mile, 161,420 step walk around the Isle of Wight in aid of Mountbatten. Penny decided to take on the challenge in memory of her late father Dr John Smith, 1 of...

Isle of Wight locals and tourists flocked in their thousands to the streets of Sandown to savour the spectacle of the 1st carnival of 2023 on Saturday (29th July). Sandown Children's Carnival came before the main procession, with local youngsters...

Members of the congregation at Sandown’s Christ Church celebrated the re-opening of the Lych gate, following extensive repairs and replacement of the structure believed to have been in place at the Church since it opened in 1845. Rev Mark Williams...

Tesco is making it easier than ever for shoppers to give a helping hand to food banks and charities providing aid to people on the Isle of Wight this summer. The Freshwater Superstore and Ryde Extra store have been selected...

Sandown Lifeguards recently teamed up with the Lighthouse Clinic and Sandown's town councillors to take part in a programme of skin cancer awareness and prevention. The beach lifeguards were all checked over by a dermatologist on the day, with 1...

Record numbers of primary school children are learning to sail for free on the East Wight with the Seaview Sailing Trust.  Almost 400 children, from 10 different Island primary schools, have completed a course of free sailing lessons throughout the...

A new film sharing the stories of people supported by local hospice Mountbatten Isle of Wight has just been released. In Your Mountbatten Stories, several people talk about how they have benefitted from the charity’s wide-ranging care and support services...