Local Community News

The next exciting family activity craft pack is now available on the Isle of Wight Council website. The activities for families are based on the collections of the Isle of Wight Heritage Service and can be completed at home with scrap materials....

New applications for funding are being welcomed by the WightAID foundation. Since launching its crisis appeal last month, and working with 6 other grant-giving organisations, the group has distributed more than £60,000 to over 20 local worthy causes working at...

Historic England is calling on people across the South East to share images that document their experience of 7 days in lockdown. 10 contemporary artists from across the nation, including 2 based in the South East, have also been chosen...

Can you identify any of the locations in these photographs? If so, then the Isle of Wight Heritage Service would like to hear from you. The 6 images form part of a collection of more than 600 glass plate negatives...

Staff at Wootton Primary School have been practising their best dance moves to create a montage video to lift the spirits of pupils at this difficult time. It has been several weeks since the school was open as normal, with...

A new fund from Sovereign Housing Association will enable local businesses, community projects, social enterprises, creatives and self-employed people across the south of England and the Isle of Wight to raise money for COVID-19- connected community activities, by pitching for a...

The Isle of Wight Council's countryside officer, Bob Edney, has died after giving 39 years of service. A private funeral ceremony was held on Wednesday (22nd April) for Bob, who was one of the Isle of Wight Council's longest-serving officers....

5 households in Brading are celebrating today (Friday) after winning £1,000 each thanks to their lucky postcode. Neighbours in Quay Lane have netted the windfall when PO36 0AT was announced as a Daily Prize winner with People’s Postcode Lottery on...

The Isle of Wight's Paul Savill has been recognised in the Scout's St George’s Day awards, receiving a Silver Acorn for this service over the past 25 years. Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting, chose St George to be the...

Celebrities like Joe Wicks, Carol Vorderman and Chris Packham have all been busy lending a hand with home-schooling, and now Bird Aware Solent, a partnership that covers the Isle of Wight and Solent region, have got involved too.  The Bird...