Former Apprentice finalist, Claire Young spent two days with post-GCSE students from Sherborne Girls last week, challenging them to come up with a social enterprise idea to benefit the local community. In the spirit of the popular TV programme, the 16-year-old girls were split into groups and tasked to come up with a business concept,…
Healthy Hearing had a great day at the Ferndown festival as part of their Healthy Hearing Week. Lesley and Rufus from The Hearing Dog Charity arrived to help and they raised a wonderful £160 towards training a hearing dog. They said a big thank you to everyone who took advantage of their Free Hearing Test…
Lewis-Manning Hospice is celebrating the success of its annual Sunflower Party, this year held at The Cumberland Hotel, which raised over £13,000 for the charity that offers free specialist palliative nursing care to around 650 local people living with cancer and other life-limiting illnesses. Hosted by Paul Kinvig, this year’s event was supported and co-ordinated…
Over the Summer, the Old School Rooms in Sturminster Marshall will be serving cream teas in aid of charities. On the last weekend in July (Saturday 27 and Sunday 28) Friends of the Strays of Greece will be providing cream teas and cakes in this delightful village setting with proceeds going to help abandoned, sick and…
A new safe haven has been created for endangered White-clawed crayfish by the South West Crayfish Project, with help from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) which owns the land where it is hoped the animals will thrive undisturbed. A team from Buglife, Avon Wildlife Trust, the Environment Agency, Dorset Wildlife Trust and the Defence Infrastructure…
Local TV celebrity Debra Stephenson, star of Bad Girls, Coronation Street and The Impressions Show, will be joining the Mayor and Mayoress of Poole in opening Lewis-Manning Hospice’s first ever Village Show and Craft Fayre By The Sea this Sunday (7 July). The actress is a big supporter of the charity, which has a hospice…
Officers in Dorchester are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward after a spate of criminal damage to cars in the town. The five separate incidents happened between 1am and 2.30am on Saturday 29 June 2013 on Princes Street, West Walks Road, Louise Road, and two along Maud Road. In each individual…
“Vibrant and uplifting” artwork produced by students from Highcliffe School will be placed within the Stroke Unit at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital (RBH).
New Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) are being sought in Dorset. PCSOs provide a valuable contribution to neighbourhood policing and are an integral part of over 70 Safer Neighbourhood Teams across the county. Responsible for high visibility policing, PCSOs can be found out on foot or bicycle engaging with members of the public, hosting Safer…
Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance has purchased three new simulation manikins as part of their vision to provide maximum patient benefit to the people of the two counties. The manikins, all realistic in size and weight, will have a large part to play in the training and development of the charity’s paramedics who began a…
