Local Community News

Thanks to a £1,000 grant from WightAid, Independent Arts' Anxiety Café group can look to the future. Anxiety Café offers people living with anxiety a chance to try out a series of creative sessions to help manage their condition using...

18-year-old Hattie Pusey will be spending 10 weeks volunteering in Ghana starting this April, with an aim of making a difference one person at a time. Having been accepted onto the government run International Citizens Service scheme, Hattie has committed...

Sport Relief is back and that means that colleagues and customers at Sainsbury’s Newport will be getting active and raising money for the charity again this year. For 2018, Sport Relief is challenging the nation to come together to walk...

Phil Hart (R) receives the AONB Cup from Richard Grogan The annual Isle of Wight Hedgelaying competition took place at Coombe Farm, Brighstone on Saturday (24th February) in bitterly cold conditions. The competitors assembled as the sun shone, giving spectacular...

Girlguiding Isle of Wight have launched a brand new website today (Thursday) to coincide with the annual World Thinking Day. Created by the talented team at Solent Create, the new website should help everyone to access Girlguiding information both locally and...

10-year-old Sophie Frost, who last October undertook a sponsored walk in aid of the Friends of St Mary’s Hospital, has presented a cheque to the charity for her efforts. The walk covered some 11 miles from her home in Lake...

Photo: Graham Reading Photography Shamus Westwood, a man who is walking 8,000 miles around the UK's coastline to raise money for children with terminal cancer, has arrived on the Isle of Wight. Shamus has had a tough time in recent...

Age UK Isle of Wight (Age UKIW) are working with local legal firms to offer all Island residents over the age of 50 a discounted Will Writing Scheme throughout March 2018. In return for a donation of £75 (Single Will)...

A pilot scheme being operated by the UK’s largest hearing loss charity, Action on Hearing Loss, has scheduled 2 more hearing screening drop-ins on the Isle of Wight this week. The hearing screenings aim to give locals an opportunity to...

Building society members’ small change has made a big difference to a charity on the Isle of Wight which provides respite and full time care for children with disabilities. Beaulieu Respite has received a £2,000 donation from Yorkshire Building Society...