Fundraising

Young people in and around Holbeach will benefit from the demise of a town club. The Rotary Club has closed its branch in the town and presented a £4,000 cheque to Holbeach Hub. The money will complete the funding of the hub’s Play Garden project. President Colin Scott handed the cheque to Coun Tracey Carter during the town’s food festival ...

Sponges flew and rats were splatted at a Donington Fun Day. A spokesman from organisers Young Dons said: “Big thank you to all our volunteers and our sponsor Storm Events for putting on the England game for us all to enjoy. “It was a very hot fun day.” The spokesman added that the day raised £715 for the club.

The 2018 Spalding Beer and Music Festival has raised more than £20,000 – and wants to share that among local youth organisations. In a statement online, Spalding Beer and Music Festival organiser Sam Nundy said: “After finalising this year’s accounts we are delighted to announce that this year’s festival raised just over £20,000.” “Thank you to everyone who sponsored, donated, ...

After a successful appeal to raise money for a ‘Tommy’ sculpture to commemorate the First World War, the specially commissioned steel soldier has been posted at his first grave. Tommy now stands at the grave of Robert Diss of the Lincolnshire Regiment in Holbeach Cemetery. Mr Diss died on October 7, 1915. Spokesman Michael Brett said: “So far we have ...

There was good cause for a Spalding school to celebrate at the weekend. Gosberton House Academy pulled out all the stops to mark the school’s 65th anniversary. Fun inflatables, a range of food and stalls were all on offer on Saturday as pupils, families and staff marked the special event. A school spokesman said more than £500 had been raised ...

A kind hearted carer has raised cash to help a young man who loves to stand in the sunshine. Matt Rogers works for the charity Sense and one of the people he supports has severe epilepsy. “He can have a number of drop seizures a day, he loves to stand in the sunshine in the garden but it is not ...

All the twos, £222 were presented to a hospital unit that looks after breast cancer patients recently following a charity bingo night. The regular bingo nights at Whaplode Village Hall continue to be successful and the Breast Cancer Care Unit at the Pilgrim Hospital in Boston was the grateful recipient following the last night on Friday, May 18. Organiser Phyllis ...

A Spalding woman and her former colleague are stepping into the night on three marathon walks one of which is in Iceland. Pam Thompson, of Spalding, is joining former Bakkavor colleague Jenny Darroch, of Murrow, for the Moonwalks in Glasgow and Reykjavik in June where participants walk 26.2 miles through the night in aid of breast cancer research. They have ...

A Spalding man has raised over a thousand pounds for charity after completing the Rat Race dressed in a tutu. Carl Repper completed the 20 mile challenge in Stamford that featured 200 obstacle in five hours 15 minutes. Every year the policeman looks to do something for charity and this year he chose Children with Cancer UK to be the ...

A Pinchbeck personal injury team dug out their wackiest hats for an awareness day. Last Friday, Brain Injury Association charity Headway encouraged the nation to don their silliest hats to raise awareness and funds for victims of brain injury. This year they had a regal theme in honour of last week’s royal wedding and participants had the opportunity to win ...

A cadet group in Holbeach has responded to requests for food. Upon reading a news story that a surge in usage had left the Holbeach Community Larder and Cafe bare (The Voice, 22/03/18), the young members of the 2430 Holbeach Squadron Air Training Corps took up the cause and brought food from home to present to the food bank. Civilian ...

The fundraising has began to help send six local scouts to America for the World Jamboree 2019. Six scouts and Explorer Scouts from South Holland have been selected to join 55,000 others at Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve in West Virginia in August 2019. The local scouts are hosting a series of events to fund the trip which they ...

Holbeach councillors are hoping shoppers will choose their cause and help improve the facilities at the town’s nature reserve. The parish council is bidding for a cash boost from the Tesco Bags of Help initiative. It’s hoped the award of either £4,000, £2,000 or £1,000 will go towards improving visitor access at the Fishpond Lane nature reserve. Planned improvements include ...

Proceeds from three Lent Lunches at St Laurence’s Church, Surfleet, have been donated to Teenage Cancer Trust. Rev David Sweeting presented a cheque for £386.40 to Emma Wilson, who recently ran the London Marathon to raise money for the charity that provided support for her sister, Louise, who was diagnosed with a brain tumour at 19 years old. Emma, who ...

Holbeach Cemeteries Trust has launched an appeal for money to buy a six-foot ‘Tommy’ statue to stand near its war graves. One Tommy, by charity There But Not There, costs £750. More will be bought if donations allow. To donate, visit the donations page online here, drop money in a collection box in a town shop or post a cheque ...

A charity football match has helped a family towards netting their goal of raising enough money to buy a potentially life-changing cap. A group of footballers came together at Pinchbeck United’s Knight Street ground on Sunday to raise funds for five-month-old Mason Battley who has been diagnosed as in the worst one per cent in the country with brachycephaly, or ...

A group of friends are looking to raise thousands for a special needs school and Diabetics UK this year. The collective, who are calling themselves the Snowflake Committee, have met through Weightwatchers and in the past two years have raised money for several charities. This year they’re helping charity Diabetics UK and also the Friends of Garth School (FOGS) who ...

Three cyclists from Quadring will ride from Scotland to London next week for a veterans charity. Army veterans and rugby fans Peter Elrick (60) and Tim Barnes (45) will cycle more than 500 miles from Murrayfield in Edinburgh to Twickenham, ending at the stadium on the day of the Babcock Trophy Army v Navy match in May. Peter and Tim, ...

A Holbeach charity has given away more than £12,000 so far this year. In the latest donation, Chosen has presented £500 to Ellie-Mae Belokon-Dennis who is raising funds for her trip to America for the 24th World Scout Jamboree. She will be joining around 50,000 scouts from around the world in West Virginia. The charity has also donated £4,000 to ...

Members of the South Holland Market Traders Group took to the seaside to for their latest cheque presentation. The group presented £935 to the RNLI at Skegness on Sunday, March 25. Throughout the past 12 months market customers have been giving generously and helping the traders raise the sums. There was also an auction held with help from Pendragon Antiques, ...