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NEW RED JET ON SCHEDULE.

One year on from when Red Funnel placed an order with Shemana Refit LLP to build Red Jet 6 in East Cowes, she is due to be launched on the 4th of July. A team of 58 permanent boat builders including five apprentices, have kept the construction of the new vessel on schedule. Their task ... read more

OARSOME RACING ON RIVER MEDINA

  Hosted by Island Harbour, the 2nd Annual IW Festival Dragon Boat Race Day attracted twenty teams. Organisers John and Caroline Giddings chose to raise money for the Stand Up To Cancer campaign (Cancer Research UK) Celebrity attendees included Keith Duffy and Shane Lynch from Boyzone, Caroline Corr an honorary MBE holder and James Walsh ... read more

Teams are signing up for last Wightlink Wight Challenge

17th September 2016 will see the last Wightlink Wight Challenge and organisers are delighted that so many teams are signing up for what they hope will be a bumper year. However, there are still spaces if you fancy a challenge and there is still time for you and a team of three to get yourselves ... read more

TWO NEW EXHIBITIONS + ART ROCKS AT DIMBOLA.

Having been stored in a Winchester farmhouse for forty years, the photographic archive of Austrian born Lotte Meitner-Graf (1899-1973) can be seen for the first time for many years at Dimbola Museum and Galleries, Freshwater. Although Lotte was unconventional and uncompromising, she never courted publicity, neither did she seek to gain from her art commercially. ... read more

RAINBOWS ROMP UNDER THE TREES.

All the Island’s Rainbows (the youngest members of Girlguiding IW aged 5-7) were invited to an outdoor fun day at Barton Manor recently. This day in the great outdoors included a number of challenges and foraging for items found in the countryside and woods. All the Rainbows, together with leaders undertook the task of looking ... read more

BADGE DAY FOR COMPTON BAY SECTION GUIDES.

SCIENCE SEWING CIRCUS SKILLS Guides belonging to the Compton Bay Section of Girlguiding Isle of Wight enjoyed a Badge Day recently. Held at Northwood Scout Hut the girls from the Compton Bay Section , which covers the Newport, Cowes and West Wight areas of the Island, undertook various challenges to improve their skills and knowledge ... read more

BADEN POWELL AWARDS FOR GUIDES.

Presentations have recently taken place for Girlguiding’s Baden Powell (BP) Awards. Guides from across the Island undertook challenges during a special weekend of events organised by Girlguiding IW BP Adviser Tammy Vincent who said, “Emma, my assistant leader, and I would like to add it was an honour to take these girls on their adventure ... read more

Your Chance To Enter ‘Wight In Bloom 2016’.

The Island’s 2016 Wight in Bloom competition was officially launched at the National Trust’s Mottistone Gardens on Monday April 18th. Wight in Bloom is an annual gardening and community competition that celebrates our Island and the efforts of our green-fingered community. This free to enter competition, sponsored by Red Funnel and organised by Visit Isle ... read more

PUSH THE BOAT OUT IS BACK FOR 2016!

Don’t miss the chance to try sailing in this Olympic year as RYA Push the Out returns from 14-22 May when six sailing clubs on the Isle of Wight open their doors to the public. Activities range from a trip around Bembridge Harbour by dinghy at Brading Haven Yacht Club, to half hour dinghy taster ... read more

J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race 2016

Hamble-based Royal Southern Yacht Club has been granted the exclusive right by the Island Sailing Club (ISC) to be the mainland HUB Club for this year’s Round the Island Race, the last under J.P. Morgan’s 12-year title sponsorship. The Royal Southern, which also acted as a South Coast HUB in 2015, will be showing the ... read more