The Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy (WPNSA) – the Olympic and Paralympic sailing venue in Weymouth – is holding an open day on 30 March 2013, when visitors can take a look around the facilities.
1st Wimborne Girls’ Brigade Company enjoyed a huge balloon launch and a ‘Great Big Party’ to kick start the organisation’s 120th year and to make it one to truly remember. Girls’ Brigade (GB) was started in 1893 in Dublin, Ireland. GB groups have now grown all over the world, providing rewarding, stretching and positive opportunities through which children and young people, between the ages of 4 and 18, grow and develop in confidence and skills in a Christian environment.
Votwo Events & Adventure has partnered with Kingston Lacy to host a brand new running festival in the spectacular National Trust grounds near Wimborne, Dorset on Sunday, 9 June 2013. The first Kingston Lacy Running Festival, sponsored by Scott Sports, offers something for runners of all levels including a 5k and a 10k run, a half marathon, and…
Thousands of people sail it, hundreds cycle it, now the official charity of the JP Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race, the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust, is looking to recruit up to four crews competing in the race to also row the 50 miles around the Isle of Wight. Starting at 5am on Friday…
Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance has confirmed that the air ambulance attended 615 incidents last year and has now flown over 9,000 missions since its launch in March, 2000.
An importer has been ordered to pay out more than £9,000 for distributing faulty power cable devices, following an investigation by Dorset County Council’s trading standards service.
Last week, Annette Brooke, MP for Mid Dorset and North Poole met Broadstone Scouts at a unique event inside the Houses of Parliament to celebrate the success of Scout Community Week, which took place in May last year. They were joined by other Scouts from across the UK. Annette said, “I was delighted to meet…
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has awarded a £495,000 grant to the development of a visitor centre and education trails in Thorncombe Wood, which surrounds the writer’s birthplace cottage in Higher Bockhampton, Dorchester. The project is a joint partnership between Dorset County Council and the National Trust to bring together the cottage and surrounding landscape…
Ferndown Upper School pupils took part in the elections for the United Kingdom Youth Parliament (UKYP) members for the South West, and mags4dorset was invited to observe the electoral process in action. The UKYP enables politically-minded young people between the ages of 11 to 18 to represent young people in their area to the government, over…
Spaceships and aliens will be landing in Weymouth this coming March as ten of the world’s best sand sculptors arrive at Sandworld International Sand Sculpture Park to create some amazing new sculptures on a science fiction theme. Artistic Director and creator of Sandworld, Mark Anderson said, “As far as we know, there has never been…
