Local Community News

The Island’s Safeguarding Adults Board were at the Isle of Wight Festival once again this year to raise awareness of consent and domestic abuse. Volunteers from ‘Yellow Door’ Counselling Service (formerly Southampton Rape crisis), the Hampton Trust and the NHS...

Isle of Wight school children are to discover what it was like to be evacuated during World War II. The annual event at Havenstreet's Isle of Wight Steam Railway will see the station transformed to replicate a wartime station, between...

After more than 7 years bringing community radio to the Isle of Wight and beyond, and 1 year after being granted an FM licence, Vecits Radio has now been given its own frequency and aims to start broadcasting on FM in September or...

Sainsbury’s Isle of Wight is helping customers celebrate being part of the local community by hosting a drop-in event as part of The Great Get Together on Saturday 17th June. Created to encourage communities to get to know each other...

After raising over £5,000 through a phenomenally successful crowdfunding campaign, children's writer and illustrator Marianne Su Yin is fulfilling her pledge to donate a copy of her new book to every primary school on the Isle of Wight. Pupils from Shalfleet...

Island charities and organisations were able to display their wares and greet visitors from a new venue within Seaclose Park at this year’s Isle of Wight Festival. Situated near the ‘Green’ entrance this area was also home to the Island-based...

A wine tasting evening has been hailed a success after £2,100 was raised for maritime charity UKSA, with the money ear-marked to benefit Isle of Wight school children. 100 people attended the evening at Barton Manor, the proprietors of which...

The Isle of Wight has been chosen as the second location in the country to launch a new innovative health and social care technology entitled Life co. The technology takes a step forward to revolutionise care across the Island, allowing people...

Southern Vectis is treating the Island's dads this Father’s Day by offering them the chance to travel for free across the local network.   The Isle of Wight bus operator will provide complimentary travel for fathers travelling on Sunday 18th June - as...

Pupils from St Helens Primary School had the chance to take a first glimpse of their new library this month - thanks to Southern Vectis.  The Isle of Wight operator is donating one of its former Wiltshire and Dorset buses,...