Fundraising

Two ladies who bake cakes to raise funds towards another defibrillator for their village. Pride of South Holland Awards Community Heroes Julie Collins and Lisa Atkinson have raised £15,000 in the last few years and their latest donation has gone towards the second of a planned three defibrillators for Pinchbeck.Councillors James Avery, Sally Slade and Elizabeth Sneath have also helped ...

A community fundraiser has been launched after a fatal house fire in Spalding. A 56-year-old member of the Lithuanian community died in the blaze at Spring Gardens in the early hours of Tuesday, April 11.Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue say carelessly discarded smoking materials was the cause.The Lithuanian community is rallying around the family who lived at the building with whom ...

A group of friends are to climb the biggest mountains in three different countries in the space of 24 hours to raise money for a charity that looks to prevent suicides in young people. Elliot Lea, 23, Connor Lewis, 25, Josh Clarke, 22, and Jamie Bingham, 25, are taking on the Three Peaks Challenge of climbing Ben Nevis in Scotland, ...

Young fundraiser Lewy Royle-Hutson has completed his sponsored cycle ride to raise money for a football club. He completed a total of 5.4 miles in just 50 minutes to boost the coffers of his club, Spalding Under-6s.His parents, Ellis and Brett, and big brother Theo (10), cycled alongside him to keep the big-hearted five-year-old motivated.The group was met at the ...

A local firm has been raising money and awareness of epilepsy. Steadfast Training last week got involved with the Epilepsy Society’s worldwide Purple Day (March 26) by wearing the colour to work. It was created in 2008 by Cassidy Megan, a young girl from Canada, who has epilepsy and wanted to get people talking about the condition. She decided to ...

Students have helped raise money for a local hospital after creating wooden items to sell. Construction teacher at the University Academy Holbeach, Darren Morris, presented a cheque for £312 to Holbeach Hospital. “The idea was that students got a chance to experience making joinery items for potential clients, while using the knowledge and skills gained in the three months or ...

A Spalding postie and his girlfriend will be back doing the rounds of London for charity. On Sunday, (April 2)Rachael Nichols and Ade Mills will both be running the London Landmarks Half Marathon to raise money for The ME Association, a condition Racheal has been diagnosed with.Ade, who’s worked as a postie in Spalding for 18 years, remembers doing a ...

Friday saw people don their red noses to raise money for charity. Red Nose Day 2023 was the first to be held annually after it previously took place every other year. The staff and pupils at Spalding’s Wygate Park Academy were among those to get involved with fundraising for the BBC appeal raising £329.65. A spokesman for the school said: ...

A Holbeach fundraiser has reached a huge milestone in her support for a dog charity. Ann Gregory has been helping Jerry Green Dog Rescue, which has a centre at Algakirk, since she read a sad story relating to two of the residents – and has hit £30,000. Brandy and Marley were taken to the charity and Brandy needed extensive surgery ...

The organisers of a charity ball’s last act has been to donate an amazing £9,309.11, making nearly £80,000 raised for local healthcare. The Johnson Hospital Ball committee donated the total for the last few events to Friends of Johnson Community Hospital. It has run for 13 years with all the profit raised going to the charity. Hospital ball committee chairman ...

More than £1,000 was raised for the hosting of this year’s Spalding Flower Parade on Sunday, as part of a sponsored walk. There were 20 people who took on the 12.5 miles sponsored walk around the town. Flower parade organiser Steve Timewell organised it and said: “It was a great day and we managed to raise over £1,000 for the ...

Spalding Round Table is launching a push to grant thousands of pounds to local good causes – and wants applications. The men’s organisation fundraises through events such as Spalding Festival, which returns for its fifth year in May, and the 90s Night held at Springfields Events Centre last October. However, since the Covid pandemic fewer applications for support have been ...

Spalding Lions held the annual Race Night to help boost funds.The town’s South Holland Centre was packed with supporters for the night which was hosted by Tom Mehew and Premier Race Night.“Spalding Lions would like to thank their sponsors and those who bought advertising space in the race programme, compere Terry Patey, the horse owners, raffle donors and Harrington’s Catering ...

Long Sutton Athletic U13 football team showed their support for those in Turkey and Syira affected by the recent earthquake.The players gave their match fees to the relief effort with donations from parents leading to a total of £104.Coach Ian Billinghurst said: “One of our players has friends and family in Turkey and our kit sponsor has offices in the ...

A Spalding runner is among a group of NHS staff heading to London for a half marathon.Philippa Ketteringham, a receptionist at Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust, will be running the London Landmarks half marathon on April 2.The group of 11 will be raising money for the Lincolnshire NHS Charity. Each is aiming for £250 to fund projects to enhance ...

A man who has quite literally flown the flag for Spalding across the country is to run the London Marathon for two charities, one of which is helping research a rare illness his wife suffers from. Graham Hewitt is the standard bearer for the town’s branch of the Royal British Legion as well as its president. Just months after representing ...

Spalding Lions Club recently paid thanks to all the organisations which had helped on their Christmas sleigh runs in the villages around Spalding during December. The Cley Hall Hotel hosted Lion president Michele Elvin and Lion activities chairman Stuart East, thanked and presented cheques to representatives from Spalding Flower Parade, Pinchbeck Guides, SENSE, Donington Community Fire Station (Firefighters Charity), Flinders ...

A Brownie group has been given a boost by a new district councillor. South Holland councillor Steve Timewell met the Spalding 3rd Brownie group to present them with a new projector and a laminator. The Brownies needed the projector to enable them to organise movie nights and a laminator to protect all their certificates Coun Timewell donated £200 from his ...

A charity Easter event in Pinchbeck is set to return. Herring Lane Easter Egg Hunt with Julie Collins and Lisa Atkinson is back for a third year. The pair have been putting on several events recently, including hosting a grotto with Father Christmas. For Easter they are bringing back characters Naughty Norman and Rita Rabbit from April 1 to April ...

A man walking the entire coastline of Great Britain to raise money for veterans strode through South Holland last week. Daniel McNeil has already raised over £11,000 for military charity SSAFA through the mammoth task of walking all 16,000 costal miles of Britain including islands. Originally from Dumfries in Scotland, the former member of the Royal Artillery began in March ...