The Mike Howley Trust: New Funding Opportunity for Young Island Creatives Quay Arts is pleased to announce the opening of The Mike Howley Trust for applications from young Island creatives, to help realise their artistic ambitions. Mike Howley, who worked for many years as Director of Cultural Services for the Isle of Wight Council, died …
Red Funnel-Red Jet6 update.
Red Jet 6, Red Funnel’s largest ever Hi-Speed passenger ferry is currently under construction at East Cowes. This £6m state of the art vessel is being built by Shemara Refit LLP for delivery to Red Funnel in June 2016. Following this the vessel will be named in Cowes on 4 July 2016 and will enter …
DUKE OF EDINBURGH’S AWARD LOOKS BACK AND FORWARD
Westridge Community Learning Centre was the venue for the annual Duke of Edinburgh’s Award’s Presentation Evening. Carol Taverner, D of E Facilitator on the Island welcomed award achievers, families, friends and guests and Lee Matthews IW Council D of E Manager gave an introduction to the evening. Carol pointed out that although many embark on …
Isle of Wight Festival to celebrate 40 years of Punk
Punk turns 40 next year, and in celebration of four decades of this exciting and at times controversial music scene The Isle of Wight Festival has added Iggy Pop, Adam Ant, The Damned, Buzzcocks and The Godfathers to the line up for 2016. These new acts will join Queen + Adam Lambert, Stereophonics and Faithless …
MULTI-MATERIAL CARTONS FOR RECYCLING BINS & XMAS COLLECTIONS
Island residents can now dispose of mixed-material cartons – for example Tetra Paks – in their recycling bins or clear plastic sacks. These cartons are widely used for drinks and foods such as orange juice, chopped tomatoes or long-life milk and use different materials including plastic, cardboard and aluminium, which are designed to keep the …
CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS and FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Members of Girlguiding Isle of Wight have certainly got into the Christmas spirit recently. Although the Newport Christmas Carnival was cancelled, due to bad weather, 11th Newport Rainbows wanted to show off their excellent Penguin costumes to Newport shoppers and marched proudly around the town one evening with their leaders. A visit to Morrison’s supermarket …
SANTA SPECIALS FOR RAINBOWS AND BROWNIES.
Dozens of members of Girlguiding IW from the Puckpool Rainbow and Brownie Sections enjoyed a visit to the IW Steam Railway, Havenstreet recently. For what has now become an annual event all the girls and their leaders journeyed on the ‘Santa Special’ steam train. As well as the ‘Santa Special’ train ride there was a …
WORLD’S LEADING ANNUAL SOLO YACHT RACE IS COMING TO COWES
Solitaire du Figaro,the World’s leading annual solo sailing race, is coming to Cowes between the 22nd and 26th June.This event will bring an exciting five-day public event to Cowes as part of the Island’s colourful ‘Festival of the Sea’ celebrations. This World-class sporting event, with an international following, spans 1525 miles between four European …
GOLD AWARD FOR VISIT ISLE OF WIGHT.
‘Visit Isle of Wight’ has won a Gold Award at the Beautiful South Awards 2015 hosted by Tourism South East. This number one spot was awarded to Visit Isle of Wight’s ‘Isle of Wight Visitor Centre and Travel Ambassador Scheme’ based at Newport’s Guildhall in the Visitor Information Provider of the Year category. David Thornton, …
10TH NEWPORT (CONGREGATIONAL) BROWNIES.
Back in 1955, on 18th June, a Girlguiding County rally was held at Carisbrooke Castle, with the then World Chief Guide, Olave, Lady Baden- Powell attending. Thousands of Guides, Brownies and Rangers attended. Whether it was hearing of this occasion or hearing of other Girlguiding activities on the Island we will never know but after …