Local Community News

4 young apprentices are helping manage sweet chestnut woodland at the National Trust’s Borthwood Copse, near Sandown, as part of a Heritage Lottery Fund supported project.  The apprentices have been getting hands-on experience of coppicing, a traditional way of managing...

Rural business leaders have called on MPs to back a new seasonal workers scheme which allows migrant workers access to vital jobs across the rural economy. Responding to a government inquiry on immigration, the Country Lane and Business Association (CLA)...

The NSPCC is gearing up to teach even more children on the Isle of Wight how to speak out against abuse. The charity’s Speak Out. Stay Safe programme relies on specially trained volunteers to visit primary schools to speak to...

VIDEO: This January SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity, is urging the people of the Isle of Wight to build on their New Year’s resolutions and learn new skills, whilst giving something back to their local Armed Forces community, by becoming...

Following on from their donation of over £6oo last Autumn, Girlguiding IW members have once again been fundraising for Macmillan Cancer Support, the group's chosen charity. Back in the Autumn Rainbows, Brownies and Guides from Newport, Carisbrooke and East Cowes...

Muddy footpaths around 4 Newport schools could be improved if a campaign by 2 Isle of Wight councillors is successful. Councillor John Hobart (Carisbrooke Ward) and Councillor Chris Whitehouse (Newport West Ward) say local parents are 'fed up' with pupils...

Isle of Wight’s brightest businesses and entrepreneurs have the chance to gain funding and support that could turn their innovative energy idea into a reality, after an accelerator programme opened for 2017 applications. The Ignite ‘Big Energy Idea’ Accelerator Programme...

A 17-year-old from Isle of Wight, who has been given the all clear after finishing his cancer treatment, is calling on locals to back a campaign for support the charity that helped him.  In the build up to World Cancer...

The Earl Mountbatten Hospice, which this year celebrates 35 years of caring for people and families across the Isle of Wight, is strengthening its support for Island food producers by promoting local ingredients in its Sunflower Café. The hospice has,...

Bembridge and Yarmouth RNLI lifeboats at Cowes | Photo by Andrew Cooke Last weekend saw an unprecedented number of different operational lifeboats converge on Cowes, all from lifeboat stations in or close-by the Solent area. Altogether a dozen lifeboats from...