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Two South Holland schools won £300 of gardening vouchers after impressing in a composting challenge. It was part of a project Anglian Water’s Keep It Clear programme has been running with Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service (LCVS) called Fat of the Land. The aim was to grow awareness of the problems caused by food waste, fats, oils and grease blocking ...

Guide dogs Ozzie and Nana were popular visitors as volunteer staff at Chosen charity shop in Holbeach presented £3,000 to another worthwhile good cause – Guide Dogs of Spalding. Pictured: Back (from left) – Dennis Pearson, Angie Issitt, Dorothy Holdbrook, Pauline Mackman, Jean Marriot, Dorothy Katze, Sheila Cleary; front – Chosen’s Mary Stevenson and Iris Boland with guide dogs Ozzie ...

Pinchbeck East Primary School had one of its most successful Christmas fairs – raising an amazing £5,000. Last Friday’s event, organised by The Friends of the School, took up much of the place and was extremely busy. A big fundraiser was the raffle, with about 30 great prizes including an iPad Mini. Among the many attractions were tombolas with items ...

Hundreds of primary school pupils came together to raise the roof of St John The Baptist Church in Spalding with a very festive feel in the annual school choir competition. The event included renditions from ten schools from Spalding, Sutton Bridge, Gedney Drove End and Deeping St James. And it was the federated primary schools of Westmere at Sutton Bridge ...

Visitors to Holbeach on Sunday were delighted to be able to enjoy two Christmas events and have praised organisers’ efforts. St Nicholas Fayre – held on both days over the weekend – was based around All Saints’ Church and the separate Holbeach Hub Christmas Celebration took place in Boston Road South. St Nicholas Fayre was so successful that after donations ...

Long Sutton Parish Council laid on a terrific Christmas fair in the town on Sunday.(Dec 4) The highlight was more than 350 children getting to see Father Christmas in a grotto in St Mary’s Parish Church. The council had leafletted local schools and Santa – who arrived on a Long Sutton fire engine – was kept busy throughout. Grown-ups particularly ...

Two South Holland schools won £300 of gardening vouchers after impressing in a composting challenge. It was part of a project Anglian Water’s Keep It Clear programme has been running with Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service (LCVS) called Fat of the Land. The aim was to grow awareness of the problems caused by food waste, fats, oils and grease blocking ...

Holbeach’s Chosen charity shop has made a double whammy of presentations for £2,000. Spalding PHAB is planning to put the money towards taking 50 members to a Christmas pantomime. And Boston Samaritans is using the donation to recruit new members for the support group. Pictured (from left): Mary Stevenson, Dorothy Katze, Iris Boland, Pauline Bowyer of The Samaritans, Nigel Pulford, ...

Spalding Primary School has benefited from a community project by Swinton Insurance. A company representative joined the Year 6 gardening club to clear the outdoor learning space and make it usable. And then he teamed up with a representative from B&Q to donate buckets, trowels, spades and gardening gloves for the young gardeners to use to maintain and improve the ...

It’s all systems go for two big Christmas events in Holbeach this weekend. (Dec 3 and 4) Holbeach St Nicholas Fayre is centred around All Saints’ Church on Saturday and Sunday, and Holbeach Hub Christmas Celebration is in Boston Road South on Sunday. For St Nicholas Fayre, it is the third annual running of the event. Organisers say this year’s ...

Holbeach’s Fleet Road will once more become a wonderland of Christmas lights as Jack Turner switches on the illuminations at his home. Each year Jack decorates his home to raise money for Holbeach and East Elloe Hospitals Trust. Last year his home was covered in more than 60,000 lights, raising £1,245 for the charity. This year he promises there will ...

Gosberton Public Hall is staging its first-ever beer festival this weekend. The event is being held to raise funds towards the upkeep of the High Street venue which has recently undergone a much-needed revamp. Mick Pell, chairman of the Gosberton Public Hall trustees, explained that there was a certain amount of irony surrounding the event as the hall was originally ...

Dozens of young people in South Holland have been rewarded for their hard work in the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme. Many candidates were receiving their bronze award, five have completed the silver award and four teenagers – Spalding High School students Georgina Cantwell, Emily Crossland and Jade Rigby and Spalding Open Award Group member Sophie Roberts – have achieved ...

With Christmas shopping season now in full swing we’re asking you to spare a thought and a few pounds to pick up an extra gift for a deserving local child. We’ve teamed up again with We’ll Let Your House directors Harry Drury and Jacob Bell on the Give A Gift Campaign.We’re asking readers to buy one extra present suitable for ...

South Holland District Council is supporting a campaign to mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on Friday (November 25). The day is traditionally marked by the wearing of a white ribbon. Coun Gary Taylor, portfolio holder for community, said: “We’re keen to raise awareness of this worthwhile campaign and would encourage anyone to get involved by ...

Do you have a festive feline or a horse that’s in the holiday spirit? If the answer’s yes, then why not enter them into our Festive Pets Competition? Sponsored by Rooke’s Pet Products, the winner will be the pet that judges think shows the most Christmas spirit. Whether you have a Christmassy cat, a merry mutt, a festive fish or ...

South Holland D-Day veterans are being urged to take the opportunity to benefit from free visits to the Normandy beaches next year. Arena Travel is working with the Royal British Legion to arrange free five-day visits by using funds from fines paid by banks involved in the LIBOR scandal. And the firm is looking for nominees from the South Holland ...

Spalding Lions have set the dates and itinerary for Santa and his sleigh. The new sleigh was used for the first time last year after sponsorship from Euro Concept International of Spalding. Thursday, December 1: Donington – Market Place, Station Street, Barnes Road, Cowleys Road, Malting Lane, Town Dam Lane, Salters Way, Beech Grove, Chestnut Avenue, Ash Court, Top of Laurel ...

Three acts from the legendary 1967 Bar-b-que event have been booked to play at next year’s Spalding Beerfest and Music Festival. Soul act Geno Washington and The Ram Jam Band, rock act Sounds Force 5 and rhythm and blues and soul group Zoot Money will all feature – almost 50 years to the day since they appeared on the same ...

Holbeach Hub has stepped in to offer a lifeline to one of the town’s Christmas fayres. Fundraiser Les Ward was forced to cancel his plans for a street parade and market stalls fayre scheduled for Sunday, December 4, because of an administration error. The organising committee missed the deadline for submitting the street closure request and event plan. Trustees at ...