Local Community News

The Mental Health Service Users and Carers forum are seeking volunteers to join their group. Established in 2013, the Forum is currently represented by service users, carers and mental health and learning disabilities managers. The forum provides a Service User...

Wightlink has launched a new and improved version of their website, designed to enhance the experience of customers living on the Isle of Wight. Once logged on to www.wightlink.co.uk, visitors to the site are offered the choice of which version...

The Salvation Army are wanting to show that kindness lasts all year round, not just at Christmas, by hosting a free community meal for residents on the Isle of Wight. The local Salvation Army in Pyle Street, Newport are extending their...

Hovertravel have partnered with Sainsbury’s Ryde branch to support Comic Relief this year and have been fundraising throughout the today (Friday) for the good cause. Colleagues from Sainsbury's have been selling Comic Relief merchandise from Hovertravel’s Ryde terminal including red noses,...

The Isle of Wight has been selected by NHS England to take a national lead in transforming care for people, families and carers and those using health and social care services. It follows a successful bid to become a national...

A woman from the Isle of Wight has been recognised as an 'unsung hero' by the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health for her work to support mothers who breastfeed their babies.  Jane Hawksley, who works as a...

On Sunday 8th March Guides from across the Island took part in the first ever Comic Relief Danceathon in support of Red Nose Day 2015. All the Guides, aged between 10 and 14, joined thousands of other Guides up and...

The Isle of Wight Council has secured £90,000 from the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills to encourage young adults aged between 19 and 24 to undertake traineeships. The council’s Adult and Community Learning Team is to work with Job...

Places are available on the Isle of Wight Council’s Better Riding Course, a successful theory and practical motorcycle training course aimed at all riders – no matter how experienced. Although motorcyclists represent a small proportion of licence holders, they are...

A charity calendar featuring horses and tractors from the 2014 Memorial Ploughing Match proved a great success with over £1000 raised for charity. Organisers last year invited amateur photographers to submit their photos which they had taken at the match....