Category: Dorset Charity

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...

Blandford’s Baroque B’Stards

A recent clean of William B’Stard’s portrait revealed an intriguing detail, says Rupert Hardy, chairman of North Dorset CPRE The brothers, William and John B’Stard...

Philanthropist and environmentalist Edward Hoare takes on the Random 19

Edward Hoare is a philanthropist and environmentalist and direct descendant of Sir Richard Hoare, who founded Hoare's Bank in 1672.  C. Hoare & Co. is...

Letters to the BV Editor October 2022

On Patricia MillerWhat a fantastic ‘Dorset Island Discs’ this month (‘The NHS has lost its way’, Sep 22)! The column is always an enjoyable...

Valerie Beryl Nankervis 

Sadly passed away on the 28th September 2022 at the age of 82 in Dorchester County Hospital.  Beloved wife to (Bob) Robert and loving mother...

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...

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Sally Cooper looks beyond 1980s Jilly Cooper to polo’s fast-paced, bruising but surprisingly inclusive world, with rare gender equality The recent wave of publicity for...

From FEI forum to the first centre line

International think tanks, 4* trials … Jess Rimmer’s 2026 season start throws her in the deep end, talking sport one week, riding it the...

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