Local Community News

Over 70 toys and gifts have been donated to those spending Christmas in hospital this year, thanks to the fundraising efforts of a local boy. Ben set out to raise enough money to purchase an array of gifts with the...

Sunshine Hospital Radio will be able to keep on broadcasting across the Island after successfully fundraising to secure its future. The station has also announced a new sponsorship deal with group collecting platform Collection Pot. The radio station is located...

£800 has been handed over to The Wight Brainy Bunch thanks to the efforts of 2 shops in Ryde. Bellissima and Sugar & Spice Lingerie would like to thank all their customers who have supported The Wight Brainy Bunch. Earlier...

A festive mission by Brighstone CE Aided Primary School to bring some Christmas cheer to elderly residents in their local community was completed with a delivery of cards and letters to residents at Brighstone Grange care home. With usual carol...

English Heritage staff at Osborne House asked schools across the Isle of Wight to help them decorate the historic property and grounds in time for Christmas this year. The staff at Osborne worked with 9 local education groups, who were...

Saturday saw the busiest Grotto at Freshwater Lifeboat Station ever, with 135 children chatting with Santa in just 4 hours. Santas Treasure Chest was won by Sam Hall and her children Jacob and Emilie Heaph. Sam was totally delighted as...

Chillerton and Gatcombe Community Association, The Way Forward Programme and Whippingham Community Association will share over £12,600 between them as the recipients of the Isle of Wight Foundation's latest round of grants. The money will be used by each organisation...

A monolith created by a local man and erected at Compton Beach earlier this month has sold on eBay, but it didn't go for the £50,000+ price tag it once attracted. Auction site staff stepped in to remove a number...

Staff from Mountbatten have raised over £1,500 in a virtual festive challenge. Despite the official annual Santa Dash being cancelled earlier this month, Mountbatten nurses, volunteers and their families walked, ran, or cycled a combined total of over 90km. Their...

Openreach has announced that it is bucking the prevailing economic trend by creating 5,300 new UK-based engineering jobs, including at least 11 here on the Isle of Wight, to be filled during 2021. The new roles will enable the company...