Fundraising

Thousands of visitors made their way to Holbeach for a great weekend of music and beer. With live music, food, rides and beer on offer, some 12,000 to 15,000 people helped made the event a huge success.Bands including The Upbeat Beatles, Wild Boys, Bon Giovi and Queen tribute band Flash – provided music for all tastes.“It was definitely our best ...

A man raising money for a nearby hospice held a coffee morning in Weston Hills last week.Matthew Mahabadi is set to run the London Marathon later this year for the Thorpe Hall Hospice in Peterborough.He held the coffee morning to continue his fundraising efforts.In total he earned £150 in donations, £112 from Coffee and Cake and £38 from a raffle ...

As temperatures soared in July so did missions for the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance (LNAA), continuing an upward summer trend. June had been the busiest month on record for the charity with 151 missions but in July specialist crews were called to 179 incidents.Senior Operations Manager, Chris Bailey said: “How busy we’ve been reinforces the need for our area ...

A South Holland butcher and darts ref battled his fear of heights and completed a charity skydive.Ian Tilley, who works at Vine House Farm in Deeping St Nicholas, even shouted “180” while preparing to leap from 15,000 feet through the skies over Durham.He raised £3,200 for a prostate cancer charity.“It was very emotional because it had been cancelled twice in ...

They had to deal with extreme heat, got trapped in weeds and complete a job interview, but that didn’t stop two friends raising over £1,500 for a new community centre. Aga Smith and Kinga Rupniewska took on a triathlon in Spalding town centre recently to raise money for Project St Thomas, a bid to turn the former Methodist Church into ...

A Spalding postie and his girlfriend have delivered over £700 for charity thanks to a run around London on Sunday. Ade Mills and Rachael Nichols ran the London Landmarks half marathon to raise money for the babies charity Tommy’s. “We had an amazing day and Rachael ran a personal best time for the half marathon distance 2:04:50,” Ade said. “What ...

A Spalding postman is hoping to deliver for a charity. Ade Mills is joining girlfriend Rachael Nichols to run the London Landmarks Half Marathon on Sunday (August 1) to raise money for the charity Tommy’s which funds research into miscarriage, stillbirth and premature birth. Ade, who lives in Spalding, said: “I was initially going down to support Rachael on the ...

A fundraiser has been set up for a one-year-old whose dad was murdered last week. Christopher Higgs (21), of Spalding, has been named as the victim of the incident which occurred at Portland Street in Boston on Wednesday, July 14. Charlie Stevenson (20), of Portland Street, Boston, appeared at Lincoln Magistrates’ Court last Friday charged with his murder. The Go ...

A charity match between two friendly rivals is aiming to raise money for the Sue Ryder Hospice in Peterborough. The under-18 teams from Holbeach United and Bourne Town will clash one last time at Carter’s Park on Thursday, June 29 (7.45pm), with all monies raised going to the palliative, neurological and bereavement support charity. Entrance on the night is £3 ...

While we normally gain stuff on our birthday, one Spalding youngster has lost 19 inches of hair to mark turning 11. Alexis Dakteris, a pupil at Spalding Academy, has also raised £300 for the Little Princess Charity which will use her brown locks to turn into a wig for a child who has lost their own hair due to medical ...

A man who suffered a heart attack at work is fuelling the drive to get a defibrillator at every branch of the nationwide chain where he works. Kieran Vertannes (64) fell unwell on his first shift back at Applegreen Service Station after taking a holiday to see his first grandchild in 2019. He spent three weeks in hospital but has ...

A Holbeach woman is set to donate her hair to thank a charity who gave her eight-year-old niece who is going through chemotherapy a wig. Steph Greenhalgh has been moved to help out after seeing the care received to Lexie after an unknown virus caused her to have anaemia and bone marrow failure. Lexie spent months in hospital enduring chemotherapy ...

Two Spalding teachers are running the London Marathon for their next test and their pupils are joining in with their training. Frances Crampton and Haidee Paul of St John’s Primary School will take on the 26.2 miles in October. But they’ve already started their training and everyone at the school is set to get involved as part of its sports ...

What have Second World War pilot Douglas Bader and chart topping American singer Lizzo got in common? At first glance, not a lot, but for one Spalding schoolgirl they are part of her mammoth fundraising challenge.Eleanor Perkins (9) has chosen to highlight 100 heroes in honour of Capt Sir Tom Moore who raised millions of pounds for the NHS.The pupil ...

Two women spent six hours in a mini triathalon in Spalding this week to raise money for a Spalding church community project. Aga Smith and Kinga Rupniewska cycled 13km, ran 2km in wet suits in blazing sunshine and then swam 3km in the River Welland to help raise awareness and funds for the St Thomas Project on Monday.The town’s St ...

The Pupil School Council at Spalding’s Ayscoughfee Hall School recently raised £150 for charity. Headteacher Clare Odgen said: “With their usual care and compassion, the children have overwhelmingly chosen to support the RSPCA on this occasion, as they feel more animals than usual have been neglected due to the COVID situation and the RSPCA will have been unable to fundraise ...

Pupils at Gosberton Academy went more than the extra mile to raise money for the school. All the children walked more than 5km on a route around the village to add up to 800km. They teamed-up with Gosberton House Care Home and during their lap of the village, children delivered flowers, letters and poems to residents. “It’s been a tough ...

A fundraiser has donated over £3,000 to the family of a veteran who passed away recently. Harold Payne’s DUKW armoured vehicle carried George Wing of Bourne’s coffin to his funeral at South Lincolnshire Cemetery. And Harold has been busy raising funds to pay for the service. He presented a total of £3,287 to George’s widow Lynne Wing. “She was over ...

An opera singer has raised over a thousand pounds by singing more than 100 songs from his Pinchbeck home. Jeff Woods, aka Pavanotti, had the idea to raise the money for Dementia UK and for the appeal recently been set up to raise funds for the village’s parks. He particularly wanted to do something in memory of wife Jacqui’s mum ...

A laundry keeper has completed her goal to run for over 100 miles in the month of May for Breast Cancer Now. Nichola Baxter was inspired to take on the challenge due to her mum Diane Turner’s battle with the condition and having seen residents at the Cedar Falls care home she works at with the disease. She finished her ...