Fundraising

Providing a hearty lunch for scores of people has helped raise £4,000 for Holbeach Hospital. Susan Dunne started the lunches on February 4 last year and is delighted that she a her team of volunteers at Dunne’s Dinery have hit their fundraising target for their first year. She celebrated by handing over a cheque to Liz Power and Maxine Winch ...

A children’s cancer charity has benefited from a £22,500 boost in memory of a Pinchbeck worker. Staff at Coveris’s Pinchbeck and Boston sites raised £22,500.61, which was presented to Andrew Fuller, fundraising manager for CLIC Sargent. The funds were raised in memory of Steve Callaway, who lost his battle with cancer in November 2013. Following Steve’s death Coveris, formerly Paragon ...

South Holland district councillors have provided funding to secure the future of a long-running Spalding choir. Voices Unplugged, a popular community choir based at Broad Street Methodist Church, has received a donation of £800. Six councillors – Gary Taylor, Jack McLean and George Aley (all Spalding), Jane King and Robert Clark (both Donington, Quadring and Gosberton), and Elizabeth Sneath (Pinchbeck and Surfleet) ...

A Spalding charity shop was so busy with furniture donations that it has taken a leap by opening a dedicated store. The Lighthouse Project, which has a shop and café in Sheep Market, now has a unit at Broadgate House in Westlode Street. The shop has soft furnishings and electrical goods and is open on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays 10am-2pm. ...

Spalding-based Padma Yoga is set to continue its fundraising efforts into 2016 starting this Saturday. Hosting a morning of Warming Winter Yoga in aid of the Calderdale Flood Relief Fund, studio owner Claire Thomas is hoping to raise around £250 for the people of Calderdale who recently experienced some of the worst flooding on record. The total donation will be ...

An annual football match between a school’s staff and students has raised more than £200. The annual Sir John Gleed School Staff vs Post 16 Students Football match has boosted the coffers of the Callum Pite Smile Charity, set up in memory of a former Pinchbeck schoolboy. Representatives of the good cause were present during the game which saw the ...

Spalding Water Polo’s bid to play in the National League for the first time has received £500 support from Spalding and District Round Table. Spalding Water Polo treasurer Nick Rickett said: “We’re applying to the National League, which is available to only 40 teams. “We’re very grateful to Spalding Round Table for the donation.” News of the application is expected ...

For many people, a trip to see Jack Turner’s stunning Christmas lights display in Holbeach is an annual fixture. This year an extra 8,000 lights takes the total at his Fleet Road home to the highest ever – more than 60,000. It took Jack (86) and pals Daniel Harrison, Tony Parker and Andy Pegler a fortnight to put them up. Proceeds ...

The small team behind a Spalding charity ball is expanding its fundraising events next year. As well as a fifth annual Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation ball, also planned is a 90s themed party and a golf day. The ball itself is on the move after outgrowing The Castle Sports Complex venue. Next year organisers hope to have 500 people at ...

Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance is £100 better off thanks to a donation from the Caledonian Society. Caledonian president Chris Charlton and treasurer Val Rowley presented a £100 cheque to Air Ambulance representatives Tom and Heather Chambers at the society’s annual St Andrew’s Night ceilidh at Spalding Services Club. The air ambulance is one of several charities supported by the ...

Long Sutton garden centre Silverwood has become a collection point for the Give A Gift Appeal. The Spalding and South Holland Voice teamed up with We’ll Let Your House to launch the appeal and kicked it off with £200 of toys bought from The Spalding and South Holland Voice Community Fund. Since then readers have been getting on board leaving ...

A Spalding man has a very personal reason for fundraising – and more importantly raising awareness of his chosen charity – in his first-ever marathon. Adam Davis, who was a police support community officer in Spalding and Crowland for eight years, is in training for April’s Virgin London Marathon. His aim is to raise £1,750 and spread the word of ...

Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance is £100 better off thanks to a donation from the Caledonian Society. Caldedonian president Chris Charlton and treasurer Val Rowley presented a £100 cheque to Air Ambulance representatives Tom and Heather Chambers at the society’s annual St Andrew’s Night ceilidh at Spalding Services Club. The air ambulance is one of several charities supported by the ...

Holbeach charity shop Chosen had a very generous October – donating a huge £10,500 to good causes. Proceeds from the Fleet Street shop went to: Royal Anglian Regiment (£3,000) Royal Lincolnshire and Royal Anglian Regimental Association (£2,000) Children With Cancer UK and Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust (£2,000) Holbeach St Johns Over 50s (£500) Holbeach Sports Academy (£1,000) Hearing Dogs for the ...

St Godric Masonic Lodge in Spalding has given £500 each to Spalding Relief in Need Charity and Spalding Street Pastors. Spalding Relief In Need, which is administered by Spalding Town Husbands, works in conjunction with Citizens Advice Bureau to give financial support to people for items such as carpets, white goods and school uniform. Spalding Street Pastors is a Churches ...

Freemasons in Spalding have donated £500 to Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance. Worshipful Master of The Welland Lodge Paul Merry (centre) is pictured with the charity’s representatives Tom and Heather Chambers.

St Godric Masonic Lodge in Spalding has given £500 each to Spalding Relief in Need Charity and Spalding Street Pastors. Spalding Relief In Need, which is administered by Spalding Town Husbands, works in conjunction with Citizens Advice Bureau to give financial support to people for items such as carpets, white goods and school uniform. Spalding Street Pastors is a Churches ...

Family and friends of a former policeman are hoping a striking nativity scene will help raise awareness of a devastating illness which struck when he was only in his 30s. The traditional scene of Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus and wise men has sprung up in the entrance to Baytree Nurseries Garden Centre, Weston, where it is hoped it will help ...

A Spalding church has undergone a £600,000 refurbishment in the hope it will attract new people. Vision21 was launched in September 2012 by members of Broad Street Methodist Church to enhance the flexibility of the building. The £601,750 cost has been met through reserves, donations, grants and match funding. Members organised quizzes, concerts, garden parties and sales to raise funds. ...

A team of accountants will be swapping their smart shoes and suits for walking boots as they prepare for a charity trek. On Sunday, December 13, six Moore Thompson staff members will set off from the firm’s Market Deeping office in Market Place and walk more than 14 miles to the practice’s Spalding office in Broad Street. The team made ...