Local Community News

Action on Hearing Loss have scheduled another hearing screening drop-in at Sandown Health Centre on Friday 26th January, from 10:00 until 12 noon. The hearing screenings aim to give locals an opportunity to drop in and have their hearing checked by trained...

Wightlink has signed up Isle of Wight family businesses Grace’s Bakery and Briddlesford Farm Dairy to supply bread and milk to its ferries and terminals. The new partnership means that everything on sale at Wightlink’s Wight Taste shops now comes...

The New Carnival Company is this month playing host to an internationally significant project which could change the face of integrated and disability-led carnival in this country. In a ground breaking new programme backed by Unlimited, a British Council and...

Wightlink Steward Anni Ruecroft has been looking after 4-legged friends as well as customers over the last few weeks. Cat lover Anni asked her colleagues to donate food for feline residents at the Nine Lives Cat Rescue centre at Wroxall...

Local charity Independent Arts is inviting older members of the community to join creative sessions as part of their Arts Council funded project Time & Tide. Arts and heritage cafés will be running at local libraries throughout the whole of...

The walled garden at Osborne House will bloom with a 'battlefield to butterflies' feature this May to commemorate Britain’s parks, gardens and grounds staff who died in the First World War. Wildflowers including poppies and cornflowers will blossom among barbed...

Cllr Lilley, ward councillor for Ryde East which includes Appley Tower Over 50 people crammed into Ryde Rowing Club on Friday (12th January) to discuss their ideas for the currently empty Appley Tower. The Tower was leased to a private...

Southern Vectis is working with St George’s School in Newport to help provide travel training for its students.  The bus operator is providing bus passes so trainers can prepare pupils with severe and complex needs for bus travel across the...

More than 70 young people received Duke of Edinburgh (DofE) awards at an annual ceremony in Newport on Thursday night. The event took place at the Isle of Wight College and saw 71 Islanders receive their awards from the Lord-Lieutenant...

An Isle of Wight care provider has consulted its service users on how to drive the future direction of social care – an opportunity that locals have embraced with enthusiasm.  Carewatch Isle of Wight has personally consulted its service users...