Local Community News

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation has teamed up with Leadership in Global Change (LIGC) and Ryde School to run a circular economy summer school from 1st to 7th August 2021. Specifically aimed at 15-18 year-olds, the 1 week programme will explore...

Writing up 30 years of red squirrel work on the Isle of Wight was the task Helen Butler MBE set herself during lockdown. Wight Squirrels' focus is on monitoring red squirrels on the Isle of Wight without using intrusive methods...

An Isle of Wight-based driving instructor is hoping to raise awareness and promote road safety after witnessing several incidents of 'unsafe' driving. Darren Willett - an approved instructor who works as part of the Isle of Wight Driving Academy -...

Members of the Isle of Wight’s Community Bus Partnership have been honoured with The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the highest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK. Currently, the Partnership provides Route 22, 24, and 32 buses...

Sovereign residents living on the Isle of Wight are invited to submit project ideas for creating great outdoor spaces for their whole community. Proposals can be submitted through Sovereign’s Your Community, Your Choice (YCYC) grants programme, with up to £10,000 available...

The Island’s largest arts and crafts centre, Arreton Barns, has a few new faces for 2021 and with free entry and onsite parking it’s a hotspot destination on the Island this summer. At the end of May, the Barns will...

Solent NHS Trust is celebrating National Volunteers' Week (1st-7th June) by showcasing the brilliant work its volunteers on the Isle of Wight do. One of the biggest volunteer efforts has been seen at Solent's COVID-19 Riverside vaccination centre in Newport....

Citizens Advice member Paul has been volunteering from his shed. An Isle of Wight charity that speciailises in assisting residents with advice surrounding the law and their rights is celebrating Volunteer Week for 2021. Citizens Advice is celebrating the week...

A young Isle of Wight couple didn’t let a nationwide lockdown stop them from securing their first-ever home together - after just a single Zoom call.  28-year-old Emily Harriskine-Cook and her partner Tom Hipkiss, 29, reserved a home at David...

A trainee biomedical scientist with the Isle of Wight NHS Trust has helped to fundraise over £1,000 for the Friends of St Mary’s Hospital charity. Throughout Ramadan, the holy month of fasting in the Muslim calendar, Jussna Mateen and her...