Category: Dorset Charity

Hall & Woodhouse’s Community Chest launches for 2024

Independent family brewer Hall & Woodhouse’s 2024 Community Chest Awards are now open for applications. Charitable organisations across Dorset can seek support from H&W’s...

Winging it (on little legs)

In spite of her terminal illness, 73-year-old Marilyn McDonald planned a daring wing walk to raise funds for Dorset charity Countrymen UK Marilyn McDonald has...

County Show gives £10,000 to new Emergency Department

The Dorset County Show has generously donated £10,000 to the appeal for the new Dorset County Hospital Emergency Department and Critical Care Unit. The new...

Pupils race to raise: Miles for Mosaic mission gains momentum

A wave of enthusiastic energy is set to sweep across Dorset’s schools as they team up for ‘Miles for Mosaic’, a fundraising initiative to...

Small hands making a big impact

Bingo halls to community calls – Shaftesbury’s Rotakids, a new generation of community champions, lead the charge in innovative charity work There’s a burst of...

Julia’s House CEO exposes funding crisis on social media

Dorset’s allocation of NHS funding only provides eight per cent of the children’s hospice annual income – Rachael Rowe asks why ‘It shocked a lot...

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Heroic horsewoman runs the London marathon (aged 77) for the charities that saved her life

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...

Meeting Mr Hardy:Thomas Hardy and music, part 2

Collections of old carols and songs found in Dorset’s churches have inspired a thriving revival of the West Gallery tradition THE recent resurgence of West...

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