Local Community News

More than £34,000 has been donated by a regional co-operative to wildlife projects in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight helping communities discover nature in their neighbourhoods. The funding from Southern Co-op supported a variety of local schemes run by...

The splash park before (R) and after (L) Isle of Wight external cleaning specialists Newgents have been busy getting a popular play park ready for the summer season. The Isaac Hayward Splash Park at the Canoe Lake in Ryde is starting to...

More than 7,000 people stepped outside to explore their local environment at The New Carnival Company’s (NCC) All Along the Riverbank festival on May Day (Monday 6th May). This free community arts and countryside event featured lots of May Day...

Dorset-based Fischer Panda are helping young disabled sailor Natasha Lambert BEM by literally powering her dreams. The company have donated a generator that has been installed on a 46ft catamaran that is currently being adapted for Natasha by Wight Shipyard...

Schools who have entered this year's Ryde in Bloom competition got a head start recently by learning how to sow seeds by one of the local allotment tenants, George Rollason. Ryde Town Council’s Allotments Officer, Shona Parnell, and Ryde South...

Cowes Sailability Club can now offer more opportunities for people with disabilities to go sailing on the Isle of Wight following the arrival of its new sailing boat.  Delivered just in time for the start of the 2019 sailing season,...

A local headteacher has swapped pen for paint brush to produce a series of oil paintings that are now on display at the Full Circle Exhibition Space at St Mary's Hospital. Richard May's exhibition 'Second Sight' is on display throughout...

Sandown Carnival Association is offering a number of grants of £250 to encourage more groups to join in this year's 130th carnival celebrations in Sandown. Groups may apply for grants towards the cost of their carnival projects to cover materials,...

The Friends of Shanklin Theatre completed the first of two 'Coast to Country Walks' on Sunday as part of the Isle of Wight Walking Festival 2019. There are around 100 walks to choose from across the 2 week festival this...

As part of its commitment to encourage people to be more at ease with death, dying and bereavement, Mountbatten is again supporting Dying Matters awareness week with the launch of a new podcast (13th-19th May 2019). Each year, the national...