Local Community News

Would you like to make a real practical difference to someone living with sight loss? Guide Dogs are currently seeking volunteers on the Isle of Wight to do just that as part of their ground breaking My Guide scheme. My Guide...

Smallbrook Stadium is not only back to normal but further improved thanks to the Share and Repair event held on Thursday following a series of break-ins at the sports and entertainment complex in Ryde. As first reported by Island Echo,...

The fine china was out last week as homeowners and staff at McCarthy and Stone’s Silver Sands Court development in Bembridge and Somers Brook Court development in Newport welcomed local people to their vintage-inspired tea party, to raise money for the older...

The Isle of Wight Youth Trust has been the grateful recipient of a makeover thanks to the Island community. On Sunday (26th February), over 20 Youth Trust friends, family and members of staff set to work to transform the end...

Pupils at Nine Acres Primary have raised nearly £300 for the Wessex Cancer Trust in support of a forthcoming marathon charity effort by one of the school’s mums. Island Roads Structures Engineer Victoria Keefe, whose son Daniel is a Nine...

Trustees of the WightAID Foundation have paid a visit to the West Wight Sports and Community Centre, to hand over a cheque for £10,000. The grant will enable the Centre to develop its programme of volunteering and supported employment within...

The British Heart Foundation have donated 5 defibrillators for use in the West Wight, thanks to a joint application by The Needles National Coastwatch, Totland Parish Council, Freshwater Parish Council and the support of the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service....

The Phoenix Choir have donated all the profits from the sale of their CD to 6 local organisations. The beneficiaries, chosen by a choir members’ ballot, including Cardiac Risk In The Young (CRY), The Bus Shelter IOW, Care In The...

At Ventnor Carnival's monthly committee meeting on Wednesday (22nd February),  local charity PATCH (People’s Approach To Cancer Help) was donated the sum of £200. Earlier on this year Ventnor Carnival's chairman, Teresa Preston, promised that if by the end of the carnival events -...

Local GP David Anderson with the newly installed defibrillator Residents and businesses in Niton have welcomed the installation of a public access defibrillator at Norris Family Grocers in the heart of the village. Thanks to the efforts of local GP...