Local Community News

Aspire Ryde is offering free hot meals to local children for the rest of half term, it has been announced. The Dover Street-based charity will be feeding the children of the Isle of Wight this week in response to a...

A Ryde woman is to host mental health swims on the Isle of Wight to offer support and encourage people to get involved in their local community. These meetups are for having fun, getting the mental health benefits of cold...

YMCA Isle of Wight and Free Food in Sandown have partnered with Asda’s Community Champion to help ensure no child in The Bay area goes hungry this half term. Families who need a little help this week are encouraged to...

Network Ryde, Ryde Town Council’s Youth Service, have successfully been awarded funding from Sovereign Housing Association’s Community Grants Programme to help fund a new allotment. The youth organisation recently became the owners of a new allotment in Ryde which is...

Seeing her handmade girls dresses for sale on the High Street in Cowes has an extra meaning for Jo Jenkins, owner of Hampshire-based Roundabout Childrenswear. The dresses are now being stocked in Pocket Full of Pebbles in Cowes. Jo, who...

The 2020 Poppy Appeal has been officially launched and this year The Royal British Legion is asking everyone to back the appeal in a new way. The Legion is asking the public to show their support remotely in line with...

For the second year running, Scott Watkin BEM, who lives on the Isle of Wight, has been named as one of the most influential people with a disability in the UK, as part of The Power List 100. The Shaw...

The Island’s RSPCA is looking for a home for a pair of young cockerels, which were handed into the RSPCA’s animal rescue centre at Godshill having been found abandoned. It seems that the pair of ‘Silkies’ had been discarded and were...

Students across the Island are benefitting from financial backing provided by Island estate agency group, Hose Rhodes Dickson. 10 student teams from many Island schools and colleges are competing in the national Young Enterprise business competition. Teams compete against one...

From October, 125,000 birds of all shapes and size migrate to Solent shores to escape the falling temperatures of places like Siberia, Iceland and Norway, but the futures of these birds are under threat by humans, and often un-knowingly. A...