Local Community News

The sounds of brass filled the Salvation Army Hall on Sunday (26th November) as Vectis Brass entertained an enthusiastic crowd. The Band, celebrating its 70th birthday this year, kicked off the afternoon in rousing style with Leroy Anderson’s Christmas Festival....

Isle of Wight Leonard Cheshire Disability home, Appley Cliff in Shanklin, will this week unveil an artwork that celebrates diversity, personality and a passion for life. It is the culmination of a joint project between Appley Cliff and Independent Arts...

4 children from Isle of Wight have won a top prize at this year’s Southern Water Learn to Swim Achiever awards. This is the 25th year of Southern Water’s Learn to Swim programme – which has helped to teach more than...

The UK’s largest hearing loss charity Action on Hearing Loss has scheduled another hearing screening drop-in service, exclusively on the Isle of Wight for over 18s, on Wednesday 29th November at Argyll House Surgery in Ryde, between 14:00-16:00. The service, which...

Ascensos, the contact centre management specialists, have recruited a further 122 people - including 87 students from Isle Of Wight College - to join their new contact centre, to support their peak period in the weeks leading up to Christmas....

YMCA Winchester House in Shanklin has opened its doors to the Age UK Men in Sheds project. The Men in Sheds movement was started to tackle isolation in men over the age of 60. Meeting in local ‘sheds’ the men...

Staff and patients at the Isle of Wight NHS Trust have been working through the Trust’s ‘Patients with a Disability Working Group’ (PDWG) to fund and purchase a number of support aids that can be used to help improve the...

Go South Coast has scooped major accolades in the highly-regarded UK Bus Awards.  Praised for its excellent customer service, innovative use of technology and for the high quality training and development it offers employees, the bus firm - which operates...

The New Carnival Company has announced that its latest project 'Alegria' has been awarded a major grant from Unlimited - an arts commissioning programme that aims to embed work by disabled artists within the UK and international cultural sectors, reach...

A team of talented Isle of Wight skaters lit up Portsmouth when they officially opened the city’s new pop-up festive ice rink on Tuesday. 20 members of the Island’s Ice Dance and Figure Skating Club put on a show to...