Local Community News

Isle of Wight Scouts are searching for new adult volunteers to help enable more young people to gain skills for life across the Island. Youth work is considered similar to the education sector, where current Government rules for the public...

South Western Railway customers are being urged to get behind Sandown Train Station this week as it competes in an online poll to be crowned the winner of the 2020 World Cup of Stations. The World Cup of Stations, returning...

Carisbrooke College students have committed to improving their carbon footprint over the next 5 years by planting at least 600 trees. Students recently planted 120 silver birch trees; the first phase in their 5-year on-site project. Last year, the school’s...

With calls to the NSPCC about sexual abuse increasing since schools started back, the children’s charity has teamed up with Ant & Dec to make sure children know what to do and who to speak to if something is concerning...

A street art project dreamt up by Newport and Carisbrooke Community Council and local charity Independent Arts has been installed in Newport’s Cockram’s Yard. The project, also supported by Shaping Newport, allowed people to learn more about notable characters from...

Age UK Isle of Wight’s CEO, Jo Dare, has been been awarded a British Empire Medal in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2020. Following approval from Her Majesty the Queen, hundreds of inspiring people will now be honoured in the...

Housing association Sovereign has added its weight to the growing number of social landlords which have announced they will stop issuing fixed term tenancies on all 3 bed properties and below, and replace them all with assured tenancies. The move...

Shanklin based technology firm Innovative Physics has been named overall ‘South Coast Tech Company’ in the prestigious South Coast Tech Awards 2020. The virtual awards ceremony hosted by television technology presenter and computer scientist Spencer Kelly this week, also saw...

The Isle of Wight Council is highlighting that today (Saturday 10th October) is World Mental Health Day. The theme this year is ‘Mental Health for All’. As the psychological impacts of COVID-19 become clear, now more than ever it is...

Stag Lane Motors were proud to support 2 of their employees on a charity motorbike ride around the Island in aid of Prostate Cancer and Movember on 3rd October (Sunday). Set up originally in 2012 in Australia as a solo...