Community

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 ...

The first work of South Holland’s new Poet Laureate has been published among others thanks to a historic charity. Last year, for Queen Elizabeth II’s Jubilee, the Spalding Gentlemen’s Society (SGS) launched a poetry competition with the National Lottery. Miles Green was chosen as the winner from eight shortlisted entries. Now the works have been published in a book: South ...

Two South Holland fish and chip shops have been serving up free meals for children over the half term school holiday. It’s the second time that Phoenix, in Little London, Spalding and Frydays in North Street, Crowland, have run the scheme after a similar initiative last summer thanks to a donation from Aphoenix Care. The same company has donated £200 ...

More accessible play equipment and facilities are being looked at for Ayscoughfee Gardens as the town’s first Changing Places toilets were officially opened there. A £150,000 government grant was given to build the facilities at the cafe in the gardens, in Holbeach and for the Sheep Market toilets, work on which is yet to be started. The toilets are designed ...

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 ...

A float planned to represent Spalding at this year’s Flower Parade could be set for a bee theme. Transported Arts is working with the Spalding Town Forum on its entry for the event on Saturday, May 13. They are also looking to work with local schools on different parts of the float for which £10,000 has been budgeted. “Our theme ...

A ‘white witch’ is the latest to put herself forward to the Ambassador for the Spalding Flower Parade. Jackie Clements moved to Pinchbeck from Essex in 2018 and says she’d always wanted to be involved in a carnival. “I’ve never had the chance,” said Jackie who works in an accountants. “It’s certainly on my bucket list.” Her hobbies include knitting, ...

They normally love birdies, but lovebirds were the focus of Spalding Golf Club for a special Valentine’s themed night. They held a fundraiser attended by 62 members and guests last Saturday organised by Elaine MacLeman. The evening involved a three-course meal prepared by the golf club catering staff, followed by a ‘Mr and Mrs’ or partners style quiz. The winners ...

South Holland District Council has been awarded money from the Community Matters Fund to help recently-opened warm spaces. The council is in the process of making a one-off £500 contribution to support signed-up warm spaces opening on a weekly basis. For those that have signed-up but are open less than once a week, there is a separate grant available of ...

A special cafe set up to aid mental health in Spalding is even more choc full of goodness thanks to a local company. The Night Light Cafe is run by Tonic Health from its Westlode Street premises. Aiming to avert loneliness, on Mondays and Thursday from 4pm to 7pm it provides a safe place to go and have a chat ...

Property owners can apply for grant funding to help make their properties more environmentally friendly. South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership, which South Holland District Council has been given additional funding for Green Homes Grants, though hasn’t said how much. Grants of up to £10,000 will be available to owner-occupiers with no contribution required. Grants of up to £5,000 will ...

A community project has launched its latest service serving hot meals for those that need it in Holbeach. Project St Thomas has been set up in Spalding by the Catholic community to create a community centre for the town, but one of its first actions was Hub In – Hub Out serving free meals from 12pm to 2pm on Sundays. ...

It’s just three months until Spalding Festival returns for its fifth year. The music and beerfest, held at the Castle Sports Complex, has not been staged since 2019 due to the pandemic. It’s a massive annual fundraiser by Spalding Round Table and Spalding Ladies’ Circle, which has made almost £100,000 in its first four years. And it’s ready for an ...

Spalding library’s first floor will be closed at the end of the month as part of an improvements programme. The facility will be fully closed from Monday, March 6 to Saturday, March 11 to allow work to replace the carpet. In advance of the full-week closure, customers can borrow additional items and return dates will be amended so fines aren’t ...

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 ...

Moulton has unveiled its plans for coronation celebrations. On Saturday, May 6 it will hold a Lantern Parade. Those looking to take part should meet at Moulton Mill before the parade heads down the High Street at 7.30pm heading along to the Community Centre. After a pause for hot dogs, the procession will leave at 8.45pm and head to the ...

The RSPB is celebrating after Britain’s tallest bird bred at a South Holland Nature reserve for the third successive year. The Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust owned Willow Tree Fen, near Tongue End, has been remodelled in the last few years after a pair of cranes bred there for the first time in four centuries in the county. They birds have kept ...

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 ...

The public have been snappy in getting their entries in to decorate the walls at vital hospital suite. The Tulip Suite at Spalding’s Johnson Hospital is set for a revamp with fundraising under way to improve all four of its palliative care rooms. One idea behind the refresh is to have a feature wall in each room showing a picture ...

The latest Spalding Gentlemen’s Society lecture on February 10 is set to get people buzzing. It’s entitled A Detectorists Utopia – Archaeology and Metal Detecting in England and Wales and will be presented by Professor Michael Lewis, Head of Portable Antiquities and Treasure at the British Museum and Visiting Professor in Archaeology at the University of Reading. He has an ...