Category: Dorset

Employees from across Borough of Poole will be getting on their bikes this month as part of the Momentum Cycle Challenge 2014

Patrick Ellis, 44, has been appointed as the council’s new assistant chief executive, and will take up the post in January. He will help to implement the wide-ranging ‘Forward Together’ change programme and re-shape how the council delivers services. Patrick is currently head of business improvement at West Sussex County Council, where he has had…

Over 40 staff at the Haskins Garden Centres have become Dementia Friends after attending sessions presented by Ruth Crosland, a volunteer Dementia Friends champion from the Alzheimer’s Society.

The Mayor of Dorchester, Peter Mann, has announced his support for growing the first ‘grass free lawn’ in Dorchester’s Borough Gardens as the subject of the 2014/15 Mayoral Appeal.
In a project supported by Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT), Dorchester Town Council, The Heritage Lottery Fund, and the Gardens Group, both wildlife and people are set to benefit from a lawn grown from a variety of different flowering plants, rather than grass. Members of the local community are being invited to collect their free seeds, compost and trays to grow plants at home, which will be included in the grass free lawn at Dorchester Borough Gardens next year.

Celebrating 20 years of democracy in South Africa, Inala presents choral legends Ladysmith Black Mambazo in a unique artistic collaboration with multi award-winning choreographer Mark Baldwin at Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts on Thursday, 2 October. Created by a team that includes the talents of current and former members of the Royal Ballet and…

Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is holding a Wild About Wimborne event at the Minster Green in Wimborne on Saturday, 20 September from 10.30am – 3.30pm.