Community

Two funding streams have been approved to help boost mental and physical health in Holbeach. A special open day is being held on Monday with taster sessions of walking football, walking cricket and other activities. The Money Care Network alliance of countywide community groups is funding the walking sports. District and county councillor Tracey Carter secured the funding which aims ...

Spalding’s Pumpkin Festival is to return in October. It’s back on Friday and Saturday October 7 and 8 celebrating local horticulture and harvest with an array of games, craft activities, live entertainment, food and gift stalls for the whole family to enjoy. Organised by South Holland District Council, on Friday the festivities will be hosted in the Gardens of Ayscoughfee ...

A special darts competition has hit the bullseye for an emotional charity effort. The Lincoln Arms recently put on the pairs event for Karen Pearson who is running the London Marathon in October. She’s taking up the place of Teresa Walton who spent years raising money for the charity Breast Cancer Now until she died in a road accident last ...

A Spalding community group has received a Lottery grant to help bring a former chapel back into community use. Project St Thomas is an initiative of the Catholic community in South Holland to create a local resource. The grant, for just over £14,000, will be used to work with local people to identify potential uses for the building and look ...

Spalding’s tax payers could fund a float on behalf of the town at the proposed flower parade return next year. The Spalding Town Forum is to ask South Holland District Council’s Cabinet to release £10,000 of its funding to go towards a float for the event set to happen on Saturday, May 6. It’s to come from the £100,000 reserves ...

A council partnership has launched its own local lottery with a £25,000 jackpot. The South and East Lincolnshire Lottery is aiming to raise money for local good causes. South Holland District Council first spoke about the setting up of a lottery for its residents back in 2020. Now it’s been launched by the South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership of ...

Former staff at a Spalding GP practice held a reunion at the weekend. The High Street Surgery closed its doors on November 9, 1996 to relocate to the then newly-built Munro Medical Centre. Some 26 years later, former doctors, nurses and support staff were reunited at Woodlands Hotel in Spalding. It was organised by Michelle Smith (former dispenser), Mary Barnes ...

The area’s Give It A Go Day has been hailed a huge success with more than 1,000 people visiting. Organised by the South Holland District Council’s Communities Team, the event took place at the Sir Halley Stewart Field in Spalding, and saw a number of groups and organisations in attendance. The idea behind the day was to give visitors the ...

A group of young people have been raising money for local good causes as part of the National Citizen Service (NCS) scheme. The NCS is a voluntary scheme that intends to build the confidence of young people by getting them involved in their community and taking part in trips and events. As part of it the 15 to 17-year-olds taking ...

A Spalding family says they’ve used life savings and given up jobs to help their mum fly to Mexico for cancer treatment. Katarzyna Chipala (69) has been in the Central America country for four weeks being treated for multiple myleoma, a form of bone cancer. Her daughter, also called Katarzyna, says after two years of suffering the family looked for ...

New play equipment has been officially opened in Pinchbeck. The parish council has organised the new features at Rotten Row Playing Field Its chairman James Avery took the opportunity to mention all of the groups, individuals, local companies and primary school age children who had all helped by making donations towards the cost of the new play facilities. Two children ...

Members of the Spalding and East Elloe Classic Car Club have donated £2,000 to their chosen charity this year. The cheque to Lincolnshire Emergency Blood Bikes was handed-over recently and the money was raised from the club’s 50th anniversary celebrations, hosted by president Robert Oldershaw, and the Annual Run, organised by Alan and Jackie Aistrup.

Kind public donations to help a Holbeach woman keep raising money for a charity has helped her reach a truly incredible milestone. Ann Gregory feared she may no longer be able to hold the sales for Jerry Green Dog Rescue at her Boston Road South home after she was told she needed to make a retrospective change of use planning ...

Hundreds of youngsters descended on Carter’s Park in Holbeach last week as Activate sessions returned. The sessions put on by South Holland District Council’s Communities team returned after a COVID enforced break and retained their popularity. Over 500 people attended the first hour alone at last Wednesday’s event. There was a whole host of activities to try out, from the ...

Youngsters from across South Holland have been recognised for achievement in the face of adversity, thanks to Spalding Lions. During the last week of school term, members of Spalding Lions visited local primary schools to present certificates and gift vouchers. In praise of young people, Walking Tall is an annual prize for a pupil in the last term of their ...

A band that’s led Spalding parades for a number of years is to return for next year’s Flower Parade. The Romford Drum and Trumpet Corps (RDTC) is one of the oldest independent youth marching bands in the country. It has played across the world but is set to return to Spalding when the Flower Parade is due to return in May. “We ...

Two people have been given the activities trip of a lifetime in The Lake District thanks to the local Rotary club groups. James Leverton and Harry Dobson were sent on the trip with the Calvert Trust charity thanks to the Rotary Clubs of South Holland and Spalding and the Welland. Both clubs are part of Rotary District 1070 which took ...

A very special cricket match is being held this weekend to raise money for two military charities. The Long Sutton club will be hosting its second Veterans’ Day on Saturday (August 6), and members are hoping to build on the success of last year’s inaugural event. It’s being sponsored by Tonic Health Veterans’ Project in association with the Veterans’ Foundation, ...

A Holbeach charity has donated £20,749 to local community groups since January. The amazing figure comes from the Chosen charity which has given amounts out from £80 to £1,300 to a range of different causes so far this year. Everything from jubilee celebrations in Fleet to Holbeach Football Academy and the Boxes of Hope for Ukraine all received money as ...

A Whaplode St Catherine woman has kept the promise to her dad by getting his memories of being a prisoner of war in Sumatra published in a book. After John Geoffrey Lee (known as Geoff) failed to find a publisher for his novel in his lifetime, daughter Christine Bridges vowed to ensure her dad’s story lived on. Taking his own ...