Category: Dorset community news

How to spot the scammers coming

Q: ‘I like shopping online and I’m always on the lookout for a bargain, especially with Christmas coming up, but I’m worried about scammers....

£3k cheque for Dorset’s Ducks & Drakes

Sturminster Newton Freemasons (Blackmore Vale Lodge No. 3625) have raised £1,372 for local charity Ducks and Drakes Cancer Trust. The Master donated funds raised...

Dorset-based charity initiates inventive Christmas campaign

A Dorset-based charity has initiated an inventive Christmas campaign, aiming to gather £10,000 this season to aid bereaved children throughout Dorset. The local law...

Gillingham Media Makers Big Show

Lights, camera, action: Gillingham students unleash their creative potential and debut their new-found skills at a community showcase Over the last eight weeks Gillingham School...

Wimborne in Bloom Charities Fair raises £4k

For the third year in a row, the sun shone on the Grand Charities Fair, organised by Wimborne in Bloom and held on Armistice...

An accordion for Papa

Ever since Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, tens of thousands of innocent people have fled their homes and country. Many have come to the...

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Never been to the races? Me neither…

My first visit to a racecourse – on a windblown and wet November day in Wincanton – wasn’t at all what I expected, says...

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...