Wimborne’s annual duck race raises £1,800
The 24th Wimborne Duck Race, held to raise funds for Wimborne in Bloom, collected £1,800 on Saturday 24 August.
The 24th Wimborne Duck Race, held to raise funds for Wimborne in Bloom, collected £1,800 on Saturday 24 August.
The 15th annual Dorset Plane Pull saw 21 teams of 20 people pull a 35,000kg Boeing 737 across a 50m distance for charity.
Dorset Bike Festival, which takes place on 21 September, will raise funds for a charity which helps people injured in motorcycle collisions.
Funds from her Mayor’s charity have enabled Cllr Toni Coombs to donate a gazebo to the John Thornton Young Achievers Foundation.
The event takes place from Monday 9 to Sunday 15 September, with local people invited to raise funds for the life-saving charity.
The charity SAMEE, which helps disabled people start their own business, is one of only five UK entrants shortlisted for the Zero Project Awards.
Road sweepers and bin lorries now have banners advertising the services of the county’s Housing Advice Line campaign.
Tom, who lives at Dorset House in Hamworthy, visited Purbeck Shooting School to revisit his hobby of clay pigeon shooting.
An appeal to raise funds for the new BEACH building at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital aims to raise £1.5m.
RNLI Poole Lifeboat Station volunteers warmly welcomed the family of teenager Callum Baker-Osbourne who died in July 2021 saving his family.