Year: 2013

You are here:
Archives
Categories

LATEST NEWS

Christmas Fayre fund-raiser

The Patient Art Group at Lewis-Manning Hospice have been busy making a number of items for its Christmas Fayre on Saturday 23 November at Church House, Wimborne Minster. The charity, which is celebrating its 21st anniversary this year, currently supports over 650 local people living with cancer and other life-limiting illnesses, and intends to open…

Read more

Rare trees celebrated at Knoll Gardens

Knoll Gardens is supporting National Tree Week by including a selection of its rare and unusual specimen trees on its garden map for the first time. Best known for its naturalistic planting style, the east Dorset garden also boasts a mini-arboretum. Alongside a woodpecker-friendly English Oak grow a selection of trees from around the world…

Read more

Children give to shoebox appeal

Pupils of Hillside Community First School in Verwood, along with Hillside Pre-School, have been collecting shoeboxes for the Samaritan’s Purse Shoebox Appeal. The school supports this charity every year and this year they have collected 83 boxes. These boxes have been filled with a variety of items to make up a Christmas present for a…

Read more

MCBUSTED! Tickets on sale now

Following the astonishing success of their brief reunion at the Royal Albert Hall on the occasion of McFly’s tenth anniversary concert, Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones, Dougie Poynter and Harry Judd have announced that they will join forces with James Bourne and Matt Willis to form supergroup McBusted for a full UK arena tour. They will…

Read more

Boxing dinner’s ringside seats

A ‘knockout’ charity dinner to raise money for the Bournemouth Hospital Charity will take place at the Carrington Hotel on 6 December. Organised by the Bransgore Rotary Club in association with Bournemouth Amateur Boxing Club, the charity boxing dinner starts at 6.15pm and aims to generate funds for the Trust’s new Jigsaw Building. Tickets cost…

Read more

In-patient bedrooms become reality at Lewis-Manning

Staff and volunteers at Lewis-Manning Hospice in Poole became the first people to stay overnight at 1 Crichel Mount Road since Marjorie Lewis-Manning herself almost 26 years ago. The charity, which is currently celebrating its 21st anniversary, intends to open its first in-patient bedrooms in the first half of 2014 offering respite, rehabilitation and end…

Read more

All in a good Claus

Want to make some room in advance for your festive turkey and Christmas pudding, and raise money for your favourite good cause at the same time? Then enter Wimborne Rotary’s fifth Great Santa Fun Run, taking place at Badbury Rings’ point-to-point course on Sunday 15 December, and sponsored by the Rotary Club’s business partners. The…

Read more