Events

Spalding’s Christmas tree lights will be switched on at the end of a day of festive fun. On Saturday (December 8) Spalding celebrates Christmas in Hall Place and at Ayscoughfee Hall Museum and Gardens. The event runs from noon until 5pm at Hall Place and 11am to 3.45pm at Ayscoughfee, and will include Christmas activities, performances and entertainment. Ayscoughfee will ...

Driving to Folkestone and back twice is among the fantastic efforts from our amazing readers in helping those less fortunate have a Christmas to remember. The Spalding and South Holland Voice teamed up with We’ll Let Your House director Harry Drury to launch the Give A Gift appeal and since then readers have been leaving gifts at drop-off points across ...

Holbeach Hospital is getting itself well and truly in the Christmas spirit with a range of events over the coming days. The community facility will be holding a Festive Friday this week with everyone encouraged to wear that fantastic Christmas jumper lurking at the back of the wardrobe. There will also be a cake sale and some busking and a ...

Market House in Long Sutton will become a winter wonderland full of the festive food and gifts at the Long Sutton Festive Feast. The event takes place this Sunday, December 9, and is sheltered from the elements inside the historic building. Entry is free and the event runs from 10am to 3pm, with live music and more. Nine local businesses ...

The heartwarming sound of children singing filled a Spalding church during its annual choir competition. On Friday, November 30, St Mary’s and St Nicolas Church hosted the Christmas School Choir Competition and 11 schools took part singing Christmas songs. With t-shirts that spelled out a festive message from the school, St Paul’s Community Primary School took the top spot, leaving ...

Festive Pets is back and now is your chance send a photo of your pet in Christmas finery. Last year’s winner, Frank, received a £100 voucher from competition sponsor Rooke’s Pet Products. You can win the same this year by sending in a picture of your pet, not just cats and dogs, to the Voice. We will publish all the ...

Spalding Lions have announced dates for this year’s Santa visits in the area. The charity will also be holding its static sleigh collection in Spalding. The dates and locations for visits are: Monday, December 3, Donington: Park Lane, Gleed Avenue, Church View Close, Church Street, Main Road, Church Lane, Browntoft Lane, Manchester Way, Badgate Lane, Crosslands, Mill Lane, Mallards Reach, ...

It’s not every day that you see the Batmobile on the streets of South Holland. And it’s even more unusual to see Santa in the passenger seat of the iconic vehicle. But Baytree’s Winter Wonderland opened at the weekend and Father Christmas arrived in style. Crowds of people gathered at the garden centre which is transformed for the festive season ...

Rockabilly entertainer Pagan Gould and Ray Fenwick and The Rest performed at a sell-out charity event in Pinchbeck. On Friday night (November 2), Pinchbeck Village Hall hosted the event, organised by Uptown Vinyl Records in Pinchbeck. More than £500 was raised for Macmillan Cancer Support and the night was hailed a success by organiser Alan Barnsdale of Uptown Vinyl Records. ...

Towns and villages across South Holland are gearing-up to mark the 100th anniversary of the Armistice. This year’s November 11 will have special poignancy as it comes a century after the guns were silenced in the First World War. Memorials in every community will be decked with poppy wreaths to show that the millions who died in the four-year conflict ...

An eye-catching new artwork depicting the history of blacksmithing in Spalding is a step closer after a successful event to make chain links. Scores of people went to Chain Bridge Forge in High Street on Saturday to get a taste of what life was like for generations of blacksmiths by stepping up to the anvil to forge a metal link, ...

A record crowd gathered in Spalding to see Peter Andre switch on the Christmas lights at Springfields. Around 6,000 people travelled to the centre for the Thursday evening event where the singer and TV presenter joined Heart FM’s Kev and Ros on stage. Father Christmas also made an early visit to South Holland to take part in the festivities. “We ...

A display of memorabilia to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One is officially opening in Spalding this weekend. Broad Street Methodist Church’s hand-crafted Poppy and Memorabilia display opens on Saturday (October 26) for the first time between 10am and 12 noon. The indoor display will be open on Tuesday and Saturday mornings right up until ...

Sue Williams wowed Spalding Arts and Crafts Society with a display of acrylic techniques at the group’s latest meeting. The October meeting saw the artist demonstrate three different techniques of painting with acrylic at Pinchbeck Village Hall. The next demonstration will be an oil painting by Carol Hill which takes place on November 6. It runs from 7.30pm to 9.30pm ...

Spalding blacksmiths Chain Bridge Forge is embarking on an ambitious art project this weekend – and everyone is invited to help out with the creative endeavour. On Saturday (27), the forge –one of South Holland’s most popular heritage sites – will host a free event at its site in High Street, Spalding. A spokesman for the forge said everyone is ...

The good times rolled on Friday at the 2018 Spalding Pumpkin Parade – and we’ve got the pictures to prove it. Can you spot yourself in the gallery? Check out Thursday’s paper for the full report.  

Spalding’s popular Pumpkin Festival is back for its 17th year tomorrow (Friday, October 12). Crafts, carving, fireworks, fancy dress, a parade and plenty of pumpkins will take centre-stage as the horticulture and harvest in South Holland is celebrated. The festival will run from 11am to 8pm in Spalding town centre and has an array of thing to see and do ...

Lorraine Swepson and Veronica Pryke were the big winners in Spalding Arts and Craft Society’s River Welland Painting Competition. An exhibition of all the entries has taken place at Spalding Library over recent weeks and the public was asked to vote for their favourite image of the town’s river as created by the artists. Lorraine’s work entitled Twilight Over the ...

Children and staff at Ayscoughfee Hall school commemorated the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War by dressing in red, white and blue and donating to various forces charities. They learnt about the work of nurse Edith Cavell and the Great War and also took part in related curriculum activities. Many children painted commemorative scenes on pebbles ...

South Holland had its cake and ate it last week – all in the name of charity. A host of Macmillan Coffee Mornings have been to raise money for the charity that supports those affected by cancer. It’s something that people of all ages can get involved in with five-year-old Brogan Marshall from Deeping St Nicholas leading the way. He ...