Fundraising

A Holbeach woman says she’s been overwhelmed at the generosity of people offering to pay for her to get planning permission to continue her own fundraising for charity. Ann Gregory says she’s had some incredible donations, including random people pushing bank notes through her door, since The Voice last week reported she’d been told by South Holland District Council she ...

Spalding cyclist Trevor Corney is set for a 600-mile ride, climbing more than 43,000 ft, to raise money for charity. He covered 150 miles non-stop last year in a five piers challenge on the coast of Norfolk and Suffolk to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Society and Mind. This time Trevor, 56, of Churchill Ciders, is covering the distance between ...

Free cookery sessions could be coming to Holbeach if a new scheme receives enough support. A plea has gone out for votes in the Tesco Community Grants initiative by Coun Tracey Carter who is organising the scheme. “After a successful application to Tesco, we are delighted that we have been shortlisted as Holbeach Moving Forwards and are bidding for a ...

An 11-year-old from Moulton is to cut his long locks off for charity for a second time. Dexter Whenman previously raised £1,155 for the Little Princess Trust in 2019, enough for the charity to make three wigs out of his hair for kids with illnesses that might mean they lose theirs. He’s grown it ever since to do it again ...

St Barnabas in Spalding has made a donation to the Community Mind Matters (CMM) team to aid its homeless project. The donation from the charity shop in Market Place was accepted by Ella’s Project. The shop manager was pleased to be supporting groups working in challenging areas of the community. Mark Le Sage, CMM’s Mental Health Ambassador, said: “During these ...

Golfers have clubbed together to raise £1,100 for a South Holland wellbeing charity. Tonic Health’s first ever golf day has been hailed a huge success by the group that runs numerous local groups and sessions aiming to support a wide array of the local population. A number of organisations and groups got into the swing of things at Spalding Golf ...

Jubilee celebrations held at two South Holland villages have helped raise £400 for charity. The final total was also boosted by people enjoying a game of bingo. The events at Holbeach St John’s and Whaplode St Catherine helped support Prostate Cancer UK and organisers Barry and Joan Joyce (pictured) want to thank everyone who helped achieved the total.

A dolls’ house lovingly created for the Queen’s Golden Jubilee has been brought out again to raise money for two good causes. Creator Christine ‘Kit’ Meggitt, of St Thomas’s Road in Spalding, has been building and collecting dolls’ homes and their furniture for around 30 years. To celebrate the more recent Platinum Jubilee she’s been showing the stately home she ...

Spalding Wargames Club has raised over £1,000 for Cancer Research. Three of the games club’s members, Ian Davison, Martin Jackson and Alec Bell took part in the Race for Life and the same day, they held a special gaming get-together. Demo games were held, including a Harry Potter Dungeons and Dragons game, Star Wars Legion and Warhammer 40,000. A model ...

The first of three new defibrillator units has been installed in Pinchbeck thanks to the hard work of two resident cake makers.Julie Collins and Lisa Atkinson regularly hold cake sales to raise funds for good causes.Coun James Avery was talking to Julie at one of her sales when she said they were raising money for a defibrillator.Coun Avery said: “Julie ...

A charity has named a Spalding 16-year-old as its Youth Ambassador of the Year. Jake Winkett was presented with the trophy by KidsOut’s CEO Stewart Moulds last Saturday at a charity mediumship evening at the Women’s Institute Hall in Holbeach. He’s collected gifts in the run up to the festive period every year since he was eight. In January 2021 ...

Customers at a Holbeach shop have helped provide a sizeable donation to a town charity. The Original Factory Shop has been able to donate £519.33 to the Holbeach Community Larder thanks to sales. It was presented to the charity’s Jane Francis recently. Julia Bowhill from The Original Factory Shop, said: “We are proud to help our local community. “Thanks to ...

Workers at the local branches of an opticians have set themselves a charity challenge to remember a former colleague. Those from Specsavers in Spalding will walk/cycle the equivalent of 780 miles from their store to the Eiffel Tower and back in memory of their colleague, optician Shyam Lakhani, who passed away suddenly last year. The ‘S-miles for Shyam’ will see ...

A woman who has been airlifted to hospital twice has taken on a charity abseil for the air ambulance. Hayley Rylott (27) was aged just four when she was thrown through the windscreen of a car after the driver fell asleep at the wheel as they drove along the A52 near Donington in 1998. When emergency services arrived on scene, ...

A charity ball has raised around £7,000 to allow parents to stay in hospital with their children. Organised by Hayley Warner, who is the ward sister at Boston’s Pilgrim Hospital, the A Night in Wonderland ball was a huge success. The event, which took place at Springfields, Spalding, raised money for the young person’s assessment unit at the hospital. The ...

A woman whose brother died aged 16 and whose 14-year-old sister has a brain tumour is putting on her running shoes to raise money to research the genetic condition that’s thought to have affected them. Harry Sandell suddenly died last October while sister Lily Sandell has an inoperable brain tumour medics have said is due to Neurofibromatosis, also known as ...

A South Holland businessman hit the heights of fundraising when he, his brother and a group of friends climbed six peaks in a day. Rob Bridgewater, of Spalding-based Infinity Properties Group, and his group headed to Scotland to start their challenge last weekend. The group of six, including Rob’s brother Pete, started at 5am on Friday and managed all three ...

A charity shop in Crowland has donated £20,000 to good causes. The Crowland Cancer Fund was able to hand out donations raised from sales in its East Street shop over the past couple of COVID-19 affected years. At its annual presentation evening £4,000 each was donated to Marie Curie Cancer Care, Sue Ryder Thorpe Hall Hospic, St Barnabas Hospice, Macmillan ...

A 65 ton Chieftain Tank has been loaned to veterans fundraiser Harold Payne to help raise money for a memorial garden. Harold, a long-time supporter of armed service veterans, , is building the memorial at the Fleet and A17 junction and has commissioned unique gates and planted 1,000 roses as part of the project. Now the Muckleburgh Collection in Norfolk ...

A Spalding-based accountant was feeling on top of the world after making the climb to Everest base camp in memory of her dad. Kirsty Holmes has raised more than £1,600 for Cruse Bereavement Care through the 5,364m high climb up the world’s tallest mountain. The paraplanner at MT Financial Management faced six to nine-hour walks each day in temperatures that ...