Category: Dorset community news

Will I lose my Winter Fuel Payment?

A local expert from Citizen’s Advice provides timely tips on consumer issues. Q: ‘Every winter I get the Winter Fuel Payment – but my daughter...

Twilight Walk raises £20,734 lighting up the prom

In May, hundreds of people from across Dorset lit up Bournemouth Pier Approach for the annual Twilight Walk, raising an impressive £20,735 in support...

More than £25,000 raised by Hatch House Open Garden

Hatch House hosted its annual Open Garden event in support of Salisbury Hospice Charity on Saturday 31st August, raising more than £25,000 to help...

Supporting Dorset’s future farmers

Fifteen students from across rural Dorset have been awarded vital grants to help them pursue rural careers through the Gillingham & Shaftesbury Agricultural Society’s...

Follow the yellow brick road … to Shaftesbury

An upcoming Pantomime promises to take audiences to an alternative land that lays somewhere over the rainbow …The Wonderful Wizard of Oz pantomime is...

A call to action for the William Barnes Archive

William Barnes, the beloved Dorset dialect poet, left a rich legacy that now resides at the Dorset History Centre. The William Barnes Society has...

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Protecting Dorset: housing targets damagingly destructive

Unrealistic targets double the build rate, threaten greenfields and ignore affordable homes and local infrastructure, says CPRE’s Rupert Hardy Labour swept to power this summer...
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Rethinking a smart State, balancing rights and responsibilities

Balancing individual responsibility and government effectiveness, MP Simon Hoare argues for a ‘smart State’ that fosters independence During the recent General Election campaign, I suggested...

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