Local Community News

Isle of Wight Charity Independent Arts is to take part in the world’s first International Social Prescribing Day tomorrow (Thursday 14th March), which will highlight the importance and significance of social prescribing within healthcare and its potential benefits for wellbeing for...

Community organisations on the Isle of Wight are celebrating a fantastic start to 2019 after being awarded over £30,000 in National Lottery funding for the quarter. The money, raised by players for good causes, is being distributed by The National...

A lathe belonging to the late master carpenter Ron Newman has been restored to full working order by Ventnor Shed. Chris and Kim Read visited the Shed at St Boniface Fields on Saturday to see the wood lathe in action...

A further donation of £3,000, raised through the sale of a highly popular book called 'An Island Legacy', has been presented in support of Islanders facing death, dying and bereavement. It brings the amount donated by author Ken Hicks MBE...

Mountbatten’s popular fundraising fun run, held in the beautiful estate of Osborne, has been revamped for 2019. The run, which has raised more than £36,000 since it was launched in 2017, will return in June with a new 10k route,...

A new fundraising initiative between Freshwater Independent Lifeboat and Co-Op Funeralcare has been launched on the Isle of Wight. Books in good condition can now be handed in to Funeralcare homes across the Island at Newport, East Cowes, Ryde, Lake,...

The Isle of Wight Council has been celebrating its burgeoning apprenticeship programme. At its recent staff awards an apprentice of the year category was created – with Danielle Harris from Legal Services, the first recipient. The council currently has 106...

The 2019 Mike Howley Trust awards, which help support young actors, musicians, dancers, writers and technicians aged between 18 and 30 and living on the Isle of Wight, are now open for applications. Mike Howley, who worked for many years as Director...

Bryan Flawell, a prison officer at HMP Isle of Wight and a retained firefighter for the community of East Cowes, received his MBE at Buckingham Palace yesterday (Thursday). It was announced in the New Year's Honours List that Bryan would...

Lanesend Primary School put on a top performance to secure a podium place in the J Rock Challenge in Southampton yesterday (Thursday). 8 schools from across Hampshire, Dorset and the Isle of Wight battled it out at the O2 Guildhall...