Health and social care consumer champions, Healthwatch Dorset, along with Routes to Roots, recently held an event which gave homeless people in Poole the opportunity to see a dentist for a check-up and receive some useful advice and information. Routes to Roots, a homeless support group in Poole, spoke to Healthwatch Dorset several months ago…
Child sexual exploitation, drugs & alcohol, youth empowerment and knife crime were explored as part of the Dorset Police and Crime Commissioners youth conference. The event attracted over 140 secondary school students, teachers and youth groups from across the county. The annual event which this year took place at Kingston Maurward College in Dorchester was…
A group of eight Year 10 students from Twynham School in Christchurch are being taught new skills thanks to a course organised by Christchurch Food Festival Education Trust and funded by Dorset Community Foundation. The students are participating in a ‘Cookery for Life Skills’ course taking place over seven weeks with a series of two-hour…
Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance came out winners at the 2015 Health Service Journal (HSJ) Awards.
The HSJ Awards is the largest celebration of excellence in UK healthcare, highlighting the most innovative and successful people and projects in the sector.
Megan and Leah Hastings were special guest speakers at Lewis-Manning Hospice’s third annual Celebrating Women Lunch which raised nearly £5,000 during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The sisters, aged 9 and 10 respectively, gave a short talk before the lunch about their Mum, Nikki, who died from cancer last year aged 40. Nikki was a patient…
A new member is being sought for the New Forest Access Forum, which gives advice on improving access for walking, horse riding, cycling and other outside recreation in and around the New Forest. The Access Forum is an independent advisory body made up of volunteers with experience of issues affecting public access to the countryside…
Dorset Wildlife Trust’s (DWT) Fine Foundation Chesil Beach Centre will be holding its annual festive Christmas Bazaar on Sunday 29 November from 10am – 4pm to raise money for local wildlife.
Leading arts and crafts exhibitors from across Dorset will be showcasing their work at Upton Country Park on 21 and 22 November. From 10am – 4pm, visitors to Upton House will be able to browse many stalls of handmade and locally crafted work. There’s something for everyone with Christmas treats and gifts available. Renowned children’s…
Santa will be taking to the waves for a special visit to Poole Quay on Sunday 29 November. Supported by the RNLI, Santa will be arriving by decorated Lifeboat at 10am, before boarding Poole Land Train for a short trip up and down Poole Quay accompanied by Dorset Youth Marching Band, Zumba Snowmen and some…
Over £5,000 was raised for two local charities when hundreds of people helped make Bournemouth seafront sparkle at the start of October half term. Tea lights were turned on to remember loved ones at Bournemouth Hospital Charity and Macmillan Caring Locally’s joint Light up the Prom event held at Bournemouth seafront.
