Ferndown Upper School are East Dorset Badminton champions after beating Queen Elizabeth and Canford School teams, and are now through to the county finals. The doubles and singles tournaments took place on 2 December and resulted in Ferndown collecting medals in both the boys’ and the girls’ categories. Individual highlights included Abi Wheetman winning her…
Award-winning author Sue Hampton visited King’s Park Academy in Bournemouth after being invited by pupil, and fellow alopecia sufferer, Molly Milligan. Year six pupil Molly wrote to Sue to ask for her help in raising awareness of alopecia, a condition which covers all types of hair loss from temporary loss to sudden and complete baldness.…
Children from Ferndown First School were treated to a ‘Bug Busters’ workshop courtesy of Nuffield Health Bournemouth Hospital and AFC Bournemouth, where they discovered how to stop the spread of germs. The campaign runs across schools throughout Dorset and is a joint partnership programme between Nuffield Health and AFC Bournemouth. In the sessions schoolchildren learn…
The Bournemouth-based national charity Round Table Children’s Wish (RTCW) is on the hunt for ladies’ shoes to raise funds to grant wishes for children with life-threatening illnesses.
Following a year of fundraising, members of Sturminster Marshall Golf Club have made a substantial donation to local blood cancer charity, Leaf.
