Local Community News

A specially designed bodysuit which enables users to experience what it might be like to be elderly is being used by the Island’s NHS Memory Service. NHS staff are encouraged to experience the age-simulation suit as part of a training...

Budding photographers from the Isle of Wight are urged to get out into their local woods and capture those magical family moments as the Woodland Trust launches a special photo competition. The charity has teamed up with Yorkshire Tea to launch the...

St John Ambulance on the Isle of Wight is holding an open evening in Newport to give local people an insight into what it means to be a volunteer with the nation’s leading first aid charity. The two units on...

The terrible human cost of collisions caused by bad driving and the huge business benefits to driving safely were demonstrated by the Hampshire and Isle of Wight charity The Blue Lamp Trust at its annual conference on Friday. The charity,...

Celebrity gardener and TV presenter, Alan Titchmarsh MBE, VMH (Victoria Medal of Honour RHS) has been revealed as Patron of 'Wight in Bloom', an annual horticultural competition which is open to all Island residents, with the aim to make the...

Storerooom in Cowes, who provide free training to local unemployed people, have secured a new dedicated premises. To enable the growth of the scheme, Storeroom2010 are to provide their courses in a brand new home which they hope to have...

The Island’s NHS Memory Service is supporting Dementia Awareness Week this week (18th-24th May) and raising awareness of dementia and the specialist support available to better enable people to live well with the condition. Dementia is a serious and progressive...

Island-based charity Challenge & Adventure have been donated 2 camping tickets by organisers of the Isle of Wight Festival 2015 to help raise as much money as possible to help disadvantaged and challenging young people on the Isle of Wight. A raffle...

Legendary athlete Paula Radcliffe has met Gemma Blamire - the mother of Sophie Rolf - and other inspirational women who are taking part in this year’s Morrisons Great South Run. The marathon star, who won the Great South Run in...

Island firm Inflight Peripherals’s rich product range and latest innovations were very much in demand at the recent AIX 2015 exhibition that took place in Hamburg, Germany. IFPL, who are based in Calbourne, had a record number of enquiries and...