Local Community News

A company that has been bringing primary school children on holiday to the Isle of Wight for more than 30 years is looking to make new hotel partnerships for 2020 and beyond. Activity Island, based in the West Midlands, specialises...

As the saying goes ‘one man’s trash is another man’s treasure’. With that in mind the NSPCC is appealing to people who may be spring cleaning their home over the bank holiday weekend to stop and think before throwing things...

2 Mountbatten Nurses, 1 from Mountbatten’s community team and 1 from the hospice’s inpatient unit, are training hard to take part in this year’s ABP Southampton Marathon event – raising funds for Island families facing death, dying and bereavement. Vicky...

A grandmother from the Isle of Wight will be taking on the London Marathon later this month in memory of her granddaughter who died just before birth. Karen Tuckwell’s daughter Kerrie was pregnant with her third child back in 2013...

Hundreds of bicycles are to be given a new lease of life in Africa thanks to local charity Re-Cycle Isle of Wight. For the ninth year running, Wightlink has provided free ferry travel to the charity which collects unwanted bicycles...

20 children from 'Sandown Community Kids' travelled to London recently to visit the famous Chelsea Pensioners - a culmination of commemorative WWI projects carried out by the local group throughout 2018. The children were invited up to visit the Chelsea...

Year 3 BA (Hons) Commercial Music students from the Isle of Wight's Platform One are off on a 7-date tour to Holland, thanks to the continued support of Wightlink. This will be the 14th year that Platform One have taken...

A recent and successful cyanotype workshop, hosted by The New Carnival Company (NCC), resulted in some beautiful artwork being produced by 14 local ladies. The group collected a variety of flowers and other natural materials from the nearby riverbank event...

Age UK Isle of Wight are calling for adventurous fundraisers to take on the incredible challenge of a sponsored tandem skydive from over 12,000ft this summer. The jump, which will take place in the skies above Sandown Airport on Tuesday...

Thousands of people are set to enjoy 4 bank holidays in the space of 6 weeks this Spring, and many will take the opportunity to head out into the beautiful Isle of Wight countryside as the weather gets warmer. CLA...