Category: Dorset community news

Dorset Cultivation Event Returns in 2025 – The Ultimate Live Action Machinery Show

The Dorset Cultivation Event is set to be the standout Agri-Business Trade Event of 2025 in Dorset. Following its successful debut in 2021, the...

Can I get carer’s allowance?

A local expert from Citizen’s Advice provides timely tips on consumer issues. Q: ‘I have had to give up work to look after my partner....

Free wildlife events for teens in Poole Harbour

Dorset-based charity Birds of Poole Harbour has partnered with the Cameron Bespolka Trust to launch a Young Birders Club, offering free monthly events throughout...

From Cheese to Trees: BV Dairy Marks Anniversary with Sustainability Drive

This week, Shaftesbury-based BV Dairy celebrates a significant milestone—one year since joining farmer-owned dairy cooperative, First Milk. To mark the occasion, colleagues from BV Dairy...

Calling the women of Dorset

Dorchester has staged the greatest number of community plays of anywhere in the world, and now the efforts of all those involved are bearing...

FOLDE Dorset celebrates back-to-back recognition at The British Book Awards

A Shaftesbury bookshop has once again been recognised among the UK and Ireland’s best independent booksellers, making the shortlist for The British Book Awards...

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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...