Fundraising

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 ...

A Spalding Voice journalist is taking part in her first – and last – 10k run at the weekend. Donna Semmens (54) has been training for the GEAR 10k which is held in King’s Lynn on Sunday. “I thought it was a good idea, but this is only going to happen the once. I’m not doing it again,” she said. ...

A Spalding man is walking 1,000 miles in 100 days to raise money for charity in his second fundraising event in six months. Nigel Wickenden, of Smithdale Close, starts his sponsored walk in aid of the Army Benevolent Fund – The Soldiers’ Charity today (Thursday). Back in October he took part in The Frontline Walk – a 100km trek to ...

A fitness instructor is to hold a two-hour charity exercise session helping animals in Ukraine. Helen Lea, who lives in Whaplode Drove, is looking to raise money for Animals of Ukraine at the event at the WI Hall on Park Road in Holbeach from 2pm on Saturday, May 14. She says she’s already raised over £11,000 for a number of ...

Staff and pupils at The Priory School have been able to collect six boxes of goods to donate to Ukrainian refugees. The school presented what it was able to round up to Ella’s Project on behalf of the St Norbert’s Ukrainian Appeal, which helped deliver a host of goods to the Red Cross through the Boxes of Hope appeal set ...

Several Spalding residents have helped organise and take part in a special open swimming session to raise funds for Ukrainian refugees. Around £600 was raised for the Red Cross and Mission Poland’s Ukraine appeal as well as goods collected thanks to the efforts at Anton’s Gowt. Aga Smith, of Spalding, was among those who helped organise the event alongside Abi ...

Red noses, red clothes and general hilarity was very much the order of the day when South Holland schools took part in this year’s Comic Relief events. Pupils at Wygate and Gosberton academies were completely in the red with fancy dress and colour coordination all round. The fancy dress theme was continued at Ayscoughfee School in Spalding which was also ...

Staff at a Spalding school will be jumping from planes and running marathons to raise money for a charity that is helping a pupil and her family. The new head teacher at St John The Baptist Primary School, Clare Robinson, will be skydiving in May as part of the campaign to help the Lily Foundation.The charity has been providing help ...

Last year LIVES visited Wygate Park Academy in Spalding providing invaluable lifesaving skills to all children and staff.As a thank you for their hard work and dedication the school held an emergency services non-uniform day on February 11 where children came to school dressed as nurses, doctors, police officers, army medics, firefighters etc and raised £416.50.

South Holland Rotary has given out thousands of pounds to local good causes thanks to donations collected while moving Santa around the town in the run up to Christmas.The Woodlands Hotel was the venue where last week club president George Clement spoke to each group about how they would spend the money.Those receiving grants were Peter and Cath Kite, of ...

Wygate Park Academy pupils have been helping LIVES as part of Emergency Services Day last week. The event involved learners paying a small donation to come to school dressed in emergency services uniform and was to raise money for the Lincolnshire First Responders charity. A school spokesman said: “LIVES had been in the school a few weeks ago to give ...

A Spalding family helped raise the profile of a rare medical condition by appearing on a TV show and adopting a rescue puppy. Kiya Clarke (11) has mitochondrial disease and visited the Wood Green animal shelter with her family to choose a new furry companion. The meeting was filmed as part of Channel 4’s The Dog House show and the ...

A Spalding-based accountant is taking on the biggest mountain in the world in memory of her dad. Kirsty Holmes is to climb to Everest base camp to raise money for Cruse Bereavement Care which helped her cope. Kirsty said: “My dad died in April 2010, very suddenly and unexpectedly, when he was just 63. We are a really close family, ...

It might have finished after 66 years last year, but a club for the elderly in Holbeach is still have an effect. The Friday Club was set up in 1954 to give pensioners somewhere to go and it’s associated daily Pop In Club officially closed last September. Now the funds built up over the years are being spent on local ...

Tributes have been paid to a Holbeach resident thought to have raised around £40,000 for local charities. Les Ward held regular events in the town, especially bingo and 40s nights at the WI Hall, as well as having a table top sale. The 77-year-old particularly enjoyed raising funds for the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance alongside best friend Brenda Twigg. ...

Darts players were on target with their fundraising efforts at a Spalding pub last week. The Lincoln Arms in Bridge Street put on a ‘crazy blind pairs’ competition in aid of the local Macmillan organisation. There was also a raffle and auction leading to a final total of £1,200. The competition was sponsored by Steve Smith who kindly donated £100 ...

As part of its 40th anniversary celebrations, a Lincolnshire hospice is urging South Holland to get involved with creating its new HeART Trail. 2022 is a big year for St Barnabas which runs services across Lincolnshire, including weekly sessions in Spalding. The HeART Trail is one of its usual fundraisers and involves sculptures being erected with special designs. In the ...

The organisers of two Holbeach clubs which have disbanded were able to donate thousands of pounds to local charities. Holbeach Friday Club and Holbeach Pop In presented a cheque for £4,500 to Patrick Skells – chairman of the trustees at The Meadows Day Centre, Spalding. Two further cheques were also given to Patchett’s Lodge and Holbeach Hospital. Pat Harland, from ...

The generosity of the public will make Christmas a much nicer time for those in need as the Give a Gift campaign celebrates its most successful year to date. Spearheaded by Coun Harry Drury, Give a Gift has passed on donated toys to less fortunate children for the last ten years. Harry said: “Even after ten years of doing this, ...