Category: Dorset

Borough of Poole has started a major conservation project at Arrowsmith Coppice to help conserve and enhance the area, bringing additional benefits to local wildlife and the community.

New Christmas lights, two trees, a lantern parade, fair rides, Santa’s Grotto and guaranteed ‘snow’ attracted crowds of people to Ringwood for the new style Christmas switch on event. Held on Small Business Saturday, (6 December) the event started at 9.30am and the party was still swinging at 7pm. The town council’s new style celebration…

Heart-felt tributes are being paid to a determined Swanage Railway veteran and pioneer since the late 1960s following her death at the age of 92.
Devoted to the cause, Moyra Cross was one of a handful of community-spirited volunteers who stood in Station Road, Swanage, in all weathers back in 1969 gathering signatures for a petition against British Rail closing the ten-mile branch line from Wareham.

The first annual Bournemouth Young Volunteer Awards was held at the Life Centre in Winton where an audience of over 250 youth and adults recognised the valuable contribution made by young people volunteering within the community. The Bournemouth Young Volunteer Award was launched in August 2013 and organised through a partnership initiative with the Bournemouth…

Residents and team members at a Dorset dementia care home had an early taste of Yuletide cheer when they attended a production of Irving Berlin’s classic musical White Christmas.
The ten-strong group, from Colten Care’s Fernhill home in Longham, enjoyed a matinee show by the company Theatre 2000 at the Regent Centre in Christchurch.

A Dorset funeral company has marked its 40th anniversary by investing more than £1.2 million in the business.
Nicholas O’Hara Funeral Directors now has one of the most state of the art mortuaries in the country following a major expansion of its Wimborne site.