The Dorset Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), together with help from Borough of Poole’s Economic Development team, is supporting a series of exciting NEW Social Enterprise Schemes with the announcement of a five-year funding loan of £775,000 to BCHA. The former Alder Hills factory is being transformed into a hub of innovative Social Enterprise Schemes by…
Following the announcement made by MP Owen Paterson, Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is pleased that the Government’s badger culling policy is not currently being rolled out to further areas in the UK, including Dorset. The failure of the pilot culls in Somerset and Gloucestershire, which were met with strong public opposition, has strengthened the need…
What is believed to be the first set of sextuplet lambs were born last week and are still thriving at Farm Stay UK member Rorie and Rachael Geddes’ farm in Toller Porcorum, Dorset. Speaking about the sextuplets, owner of Colesmoor Farm Rorie Geddes, said: “Although we have lots of triplets and quadruplets and the occasional…
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is delighted that Broadstone Art Society has chosen to support a major new project the Trust is leading on, ‘The Great Heath Living Landscape’, for their art exhibition this spring by displaying paintings inspired by heathland in Dorset.
A night of performances from the likes of Madonna, Michael Bublé, Elvis, Dean Martin, Village People, Paul Carrack, The Darkness, Andrea Corr and Katherine Jenkins helped raise over £1,000 for both Lewis-Manning Hospice and Wessex Cancer Trust.
Five life-size model dinosaurs are fascinating visitors young and old at Bournemouth’s Castlepoint Shopping Park. A 20ft postosuchus, 10ft giant raptor, 5ft velociraptor, 6ft triceratops and a 7ft stegosaurus arrived on 4 April and will be staying until the 20 April.
Budding snappers across Dorset – as well as the south and west of England – are being invited to focus their lenses and adjust their apertures as the volunteer-led Swanage Railway launches a new photographic competition.
Tennis players past and present gathered at King George V Pavilion to celebrate Ferndown Tennis Club’s 50th anniversary on 5 April.
Moors Valley Country Park and Forest near Ringwood, opened a new family trail on 5 April based on the classic children’s tales of ‘Percy the Park Keeper’. The engaging stories of ‘Percy the Park Keeper’ revolve around the adventures of a kind-hearted park keeper, and his many animal friends, including a badger, owl, fox, rabbit,…
Ferndown Upper School Sixth Form welcomed a group of 39 Japanese students during March. They came from a school in Nagamo, Japan to learn about British culture and education, as well as to educate the British students about their own culture. During the week, as well as sitting in on sixth form lessons, they ran…
