Coda celebrate award
Coda Music Trust is celebrating success for its ‘Dementia Notes’ project, which works across Bournemouth, after the project received second place prize at the Arts & Health South West awards on 8 June.
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Nominate a Dorset tree for Tree of the Year!
The Woodland Trust is inviting people across Dorset to nominate their favourite tree with a story, as the contest begins to crown this year’s Tree of the Year, supported by players of People’s Postcode Lottery.
Children learn about solar
School children were invited to find out how sun can provide a brighter future for all at Dorset’s newest solar farm.
The youngsters from St James’ Church of England First School in Alderholt were invited by renewable energy supplier Good Energy to take a tour of the solar farm it is currently building at the nearby Crossroads Plantation.
Donation lifts Leaf
Sainsbury’s Ferndown is celebrating the success of their partnership with Leaf (Leukaemia Educating And Fundraising). The charity collected a cheque for £5,199.29 on 5 June from the store manager Richard Lockett and his colleagues.
Dorset farms are turning pink for breast cancer charities
Hogleaze Haylage in Dorset is getting behind a nationwide initiative to raise awareness and funds for breast cancer charities. Pink bales of haylage are starting to appear on farmland all over the county in a show of support for this worthwhile cause. The pink wrap has been manufactured by Volac and to purchase it, Hozleaze…
Organic straw and hay for small pets
It’s not often Steve Fowler managing director and founder of the expanding Verwood based pet store chain PamPurredPets has the chance to spend a day on a farm. The opportunity to do so followed a decision to stock Fair To Nature organic hay and straw within their 48 stores across southern England and Wales for small pets including rabbits and guinea pigs.
Free tickets to star-studded launch and charity fundraiser
A thousand complimentary tickets are being offered by Bournemouth-born entertainment entrepreneur Paul Potter to the re-launch of The Dudsbury pub – still known to many as 20 on The River – as The Dusbury Country Club.
Yacht destroyed in arson attack
Police investigating an arson attack on a boat in Wareham are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward. Officers were called at 9.25pm on Sunday 7 June to reports of a fire on a boat near the moorings on the River Frome at Swineham. The 30-foot yacht was completely destroyed in the…
Viewpoint June 2015
INSIDE THIS ISSUE… Verwood Carnival hailed a success – FLower Festival celebrates Minster’s history with blaze of colour
Highcliffe greets its Waterloo
Highcliffe Castle would be a very different building had it not been for Napoleon’s defeat at the Battle of Waterloo 200 years ago. When Lord Stuart de Rothesay created Highcliffe Castle in the 1830s, he used ancient stonework from demolished buildings in Normandy, collected during his time as British Ambassador in Paris. Stuart was the…
