Local Community News

Local charity Daisy Chains IW has launched a 'basic essential fund', supporting families who have been financially affected by COVID-19. The charity aims to provide basic food/household items parcels, baby parcels or gas/electric top-ups to vulnerable families that are living...

Artists across the south coast are working to raise funds to help YMCA Fairthorne Group support young carers through the current crisis and beyond. A group of artists from the Isle of Wight who kicked off this project are already...

Cowes-based Vectis Refrigeration has donated a large chest freezer to The Congregational Church and The Pop-up Soup Kitchen in Newport to support the 2 organisations during this time of crisis. The COVID-19 crisis is making it difficult for many food...

This year marks the 40th anniversary for The Wight Strollers and even though they are not celebrating how they may have hoped, the group are continuing to spread plenty of cheer as well as donating vital funds to Isle of...

Thousands of people took part in digital services that were live-streamed or pre-recorded by CofE churches in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight over the Easter weekend. Regular worshippers and non-churchgoers alike went online to participate in Maundy Thursday gatherings,...

The Isle of Wight’s leading housebuilder is donating defibrillators to St John’s Ambulance – as the first aid charity continues to work on the frontline supporting people and communities through coronavirus. Barratt Homes and David Wilson Homes will be donating...

The New Carnival Company (NCC) has launched a new, free digital carnival club for families with children stuck at home during the COVID-19 crisis. Called the Virtual Carnival Club, it delivers an online weekly class or tutorial showing how to...

4 people in Binstead are celebrating today (Sunday) after winning £1,000 each thanks to their lucky postcode. Neighbours in Nelson Crescent netted the windfall when PO33 3QN was announced as a Daily Prize winner with People’s Postcode Lottery on Sunday...

Every year over 1,000 members of Scouting on the Isle of Wight renew their promise at events and parades across the Island on or around St George’s Day (Thursday 23rd April 2020) - but not this year. As face to...

Island Roads became Island odes when the highways PFI company entered into a poetic exchange with a retired teacher. Octogenarian Sylvia Sharp, of Freshwater, who jokingly calls herself the ‘Poet Looreate’, wrote in verse to Island Roads to offer her...