Local Community News

Independent Arts is launching a new project entitled ‘Making Moves’, giving Islanders a chance to get creative through the medium of dance. Sessions will be led by practitioner Michelle Hainsworth, who has wide experience running dance projects for all ages,...

Isle of Wight Explorer Scouts will be taking part in a special Island-wide challenge next month - travelling across the Isle of Wight by bus.  The Southern Vectis Explorer Scout Challenge will take place on Saturday 10th September, and will...

Year 5 pupils at St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School in Carisbrooke were delighted to discover they were winners of the Noel Turner Science Festival competition, as part of the Science Festival held at Cowes Enterprise College. Prior to...

3 local children have raised over £150 for Sandown & Shanklin Independent Lifeboat after selling homemade gifts on the seafront over the holidays. The girls spent the week decorating stones and selling them along the revetment in Sandown near the...

Blackwater Mill Residential Care Home on the outskirts of Newport is asking for a little help from Islanders in making a resident's 105th birthday extra special. On 17th September, Joan is going to be turning 105 so the team at...

Isle of Wight Portsmouth Football Club supporters have donated £1,000 to the Isle of Wight Prostate Cancer Support Group which regularly organises testing for men on the Island.  The group raised the funds in a series of charity race nights...

Quarr Abbey Art Gallery is currently hosting a substantial collection of distinctive contemporary ceramic sculptures and wall panels, and fresh and vibrant abstract oil-painted wall art by Isle of Wight artist, Andrew Dowden. Andrew was inspired to take up ceramics...

Trinity Theatre in Cowes is celebrating 125 years of Cowes Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society (CAODS) with some exciting new enterprises and activities that are designed to involve the whole community. The anniversary programme kicks off with an Open Evening...

They’ve done it again! Last year I watched the Savoyards’ Summer Workshop present We Will Rock You and was amazed at the standard achieved in just 6 days – and this year the youngsters attending the week-long workshop have again...

A local mum has set up a monthly meeting place in Cowes for teenagers with epilepsy. The Teen Epilepsy Cafe kicked off on 18th August with a lively meeting full of music, chat and delicious cupcakes. The cafe is run...