Category: Dorset community news

Maddie loves Sculpture by the Lakes

Employ My Ability offers vocational training for students with learning disabilities and special educational needs and disabilities. One of their students, Maddie Walters, spent...

Free uniform and business mentoring in Sturminster

This month’s news from the unofficial capital of the Blackmore Vale … Pauline Batstone rounds up a busy month in Sturminster Newton • School uniform exchange...

Annual Hatch House event raises £20,000 for Salisbury hospice

The Open Garden at Hatch House has this year raised in excess of £20,000 for Salisbury Hospice.The annual event, held on Saturday the 10th...

The heart and soul of the sky

The BV’s night sky photographer and columnist Rob Nolan makes a welcome return – and introduces the Soul Nebula from within Cassiopeia Folks, I’m back,...

Iconic phone box in Sherborne becomes life-saving community defibrillator

A new defibrillator on Cheap Street continues the trend for repurposing the UK’s iconic but unused phone boxesinto community-funded local resources A new community public...

My top five places to visit

Employ My Ability offers vocational training for students with learning disabilities and special educational needs and disabilities. One of their students, Maddie Walters, has...

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Seeing the flip side – Toots the groom

After a last-minute change of plans, eventer Toots Bartlett swapped boots this month – and found herself watching helplessly from the sidelines March turned out...

How Dorset Villages Are Keeping Traditional Pub Games Alive

Across the Blackmore Vale's village pubs skittle alleys are being swept clean, dartboards rehung, and cribbage cards shuffled again on Tuesday evenings. Far from...