The Dorset Charity pages of the digital Blackmore Vale magazine, are produced thanks to a partnership with Ward Goodman, providing space to allow us to highlight excellent local Dorset charities and their work.
Ward Goodman is a Dorset accountant who specialises in the charity, community and not for profit sector, delivering a comprehensive range of services to registered charities, community groups and not for profit organisations. The team are trained specifically to carry out charity accounting, auditing and reporting and to communicate effectively with Trustees, management and volunteers.
Two 6th fomers at Bruton School for Girls have organised a ‘Hockathon’ for next Thursday 25th November 5pm to 8:30pm to raise money for the Cure CJD Campaign in memory of a teacher at BSG who developed this disease and died very suddenly last year. They will play hockey for 12 hours non-stop to fundraise in […]
Teddy20 is a charity based in Blandford Forum which provides emotional and financial support to children and young people suffering and undergoing treatment for cancer. In 2009 cricket lover and local businessman Owen Newton wanted to raise awareness of the childhood cancer his youngest son was suffering from. Not just awareness – he wanted to […]
‘Shaftesbury Arts Centre aims to take the lead in seeking to optimise opportunities for the community of Shaftesbury and the surrounding area to experience and take part in the highest standard of the widest range of the creative arts.’ Established in 1957 in the old covered market in the centre of the medieval Dorset hilltop […]
The Prout Bridge Project is a small youth and community charity that makes a big difference by delivering services for people of all ages in rural West Dorset. The Prout Bridge Project exists to provide opportunities for people of all ages in West Dorset to come together socially, participate in our community, make friends and […]
This month, Shena Kozuba-Kozubska will be running her second London Marathon. It’s likely to be even tougher than the one she did 30 years ago. Running that one, she “only had a fractured skull and broken hand,” she recalls understatedly. What this top-class horse rider had actually suffered was a massive blow to the head, […]
All of us will lose someone or something important to us at some point in our lives. And when it happens, it can quite literally hit us for six. This has never been more relevant than over the last eighteen months – the pandemic affected the UK in ways we’ve not yet fully seen. And […]
Sturminster Newton is a pretty market town and the ‘unofficial’ capital of the Blackmore Vale. It’s picturesque 1,00 year old mill on the River Stour is seen by all those passing the narrow arched bridge into the town. Once home to Thomas Hardy and Dorset dialect poet William Barnes, Sturminster Newton is a small town […]
Stur is holding a Job Fair on Thursday 21st October (The Exchange 10 a.m. – 2p.m.) offering opportunities to job seekers and volunteers. Local businesses and voluntary bodies report that they are struggling to find workers and SturBiz (Sturminster Newton Chamber of Commerce) has responded by setting up a Job Fair to bring them together. […]
Since the launch of its first programme in March 1990, Artsreach has been committed to working with volunteers across Dorset to overcome the barriers of rural isolation by providing communities with access to professional arts events. Dorset’s touring arts charity Artsreach have brought professional live theatre, music, dance, circus, family shows and more to the […]