The Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology (HWTMA) group has been given around £335,000 to promote maritime archaeology in the region.
The Heritage Lottery Fund grant of “over a third of a million pounds” was awarded to the HWTMA, for its impressive 17-year record of spreading enthusiasm for, and participation in, maritime archaeology and projects, [...]

Time is running out for people to be in with a chance of national individual and team prize of £10,000 each, to spend on the prevention or treatment of drug misuse…

Today sees a Playground Presentation Fun Day taking place at Ventnor Winter Gardens.  The Fun Day venue is in the Foyer, between 11.30am to 4pm and will include: face painting, lucky dip, toys books, jumble, raffle and balloon race.
The event has been organised for the Ventnor community to raise awareness of the proposed Sea Breeze Children’s [...]

The Island has secured grant funding of £2.6 million to help boost the local rural economy. The Isle of Wight Council and the IW Economic Partnership gained the money through a partnership bid which included…

The 2008 Race for Life takes place this Sunday on the Isle of Wight. As one of the most prestigious charity events of the year, organisers Cancer Research UK, are inviting everyone to make this year’s event the biggest and best yet…

Ventnor Children’s Centre, will today, celebrate the launch of a pilot scheme aimed at improving services for the under 7’s on the Isle of Wight.
Following a successful joint bid by Isle of Wight Council, the Isle of Wight NHS Primary Care Trust and members of the Voluntary and Community Sector.  The Island is one of only [...]

In order to finance a number of exciting conservation, heritage and regeneration schemes, which are in-keeping with the Eco Island vision.  The Isle of Wight Council in conjunction with the West Wight Landscape Partnership have secured £1.7m from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

The latest in a string of new ambulances has been handed over to the Isle of Wight’s top-performing ambulance service.
They are the only ambulance service in the country to consistently meet and exceed Government targets including the challenging eight minute response time from the time callers are put through to a controller to a vehicle [...]