Local Community News

Lifesaving charity, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), is calling on supporters to step up to the plate and hold a special fish supper to raise funds for its work. The RNLI’s Fish Supper campaign is in honour of volunteer...

For the inaugural meeting of the ‘new’ Freshwater Circle, held in the Olympus Gallery at Dimbola, Freshwater, the guest speaker was local historian, writer and publisher Elizabeth Hutchings. Following the demise of the Farringford Tennyson Society after 30 years, the ‘new’...

The Isle of Wight Council's Rights of Way team have reopened public access to the remote but much-appreciated Orchard Bay in Ventnor after more than 2 years. A public footpath to the bay was destroyed as a result of heavy...

Staff and volunteers at the Earl Mountbatten Hospice have been asked to think about what makes them proud to work or volunteer at the hospice and to serve the Isle of Wight community for this year’s Hospice Care Week (3rd-9th...

Cowes Harbour Commission is continuing a programme of investment into its Kingston Marine Services site at East Cowes with the recent development of a new indoor boat storage facility.  The new ‘Kingston Boat Store’ on the top terrace at the...

The Island’s energy-saving experts The Footprint Trust have put together their top 10 tips for saving energy in the home, to mark their local Energy Action Week, which runs from 23rd-29th October. The aim of the action week is to...

VIDEO: In the week that Earl Mountbatten Hospice is presented with its prestigious Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the hospice is launching a campaign to encourage more volunteers to join its award winning team.  A number of service areas are...

Students and staff from the Isle of Wight Studio School attended the Southampton Boat Show en masse on Thursday. In fact the 143 students on site comprised all but a handful of the school’s students. Having encountered some of the students...

Just under 100 15 to 17-year-olds from the Isle of Wight joined UKSA, for skills and activities training as part of the National Citizen Service (NCS) programme throughout the summer holidays. UKSA deliver the NCS programme on the Island in...

The appointment of the Earl Mountbatten Hospice’s first Admiral Nurse has been celebrated with a visit by Rt Hon. Lord Howard of Lympne CH, QC last Friday (23rd September 2016). Lord Howard was welcomed to Earl Mountbatten Hospice as Chair...