Community

Shed-load of cash for group

Long Sutton’s Men’s Shed group has received a lockdown boost. The group which aims to provide a place for men suffering from loneliness or isolation is continuing to call on its members during the lockdown and working to expand when its sessions are allowed to reopen. It’s been boosted by a £1,000 grant from Lincolnshire County Council’s COVID-19 Community Fund. ...

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It’s time to get silly for the Summer Reading Challenge

Our local libraries may be closed at present but that’s not going to stop Lincolnshire’s young readers taking part in this year’s Summer Reading Challenge 2020. Better Libraries in partnership with The Reading Agency and Lincolnshire County Council went online to launch this year’s challenge on Friday at: summerreadingchallenge.org.uk The summer reading challenge promises loads of silly fun for children ...

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Freemasons’ donation to cyclone-hit countries

A grant of £15,000 from Freemasons will provide more than 700 families with food for almost three weeks in the wake of Super Cyclone Amphan, which swept through Bangladesh and India recently. This urgently-needed humanitarian assistance has been provided by the Freemasons’ charity the Masonic Charitable Foundation, which is funded by Freemasons throughout the country, including those in Spalding and ...

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Former firefighter and landlord is given vintage send off

A pub is set to be partly re-named after its former landlord whose coffin was given a special send off by firefighters last week. Nigel Woods passed away in April aged 70 after a short battle with cancer. He’d been a retained firefighter with Spalding for 42 years before taking on the ownership of the Lincolnshire Poacher pub in Spalding ...

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Abi and Air Cadet Choir have bags of talent

A Spalding Air Cadet has been helping wow the judges of Britain’s Got Talent. Abi Barks Cadet Abi Barks (pictured) applied for the National Choir in late 2018 and after sending in an online audition she was awarded a place. She attended several training camps with the choir and live concerts, such as a performance at Lincoln Drill Hall last ...

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Air cadet among those donating to Ella’ Project

A Spalding Air Cadet has helped donate 40 face visors to a local group. As reported in the Voice last week, Keris Moore of the 1406 (Spalding) Squadron has been spending lockdown creating the equipment as part of her Duke of Edinburgh silver award. The 15-year-old has lost count of how much protective equipment she’s made using her 3D printer ...

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Peddle power raises thousands

It pushed her to her limits, but a teen has raised thousands of pounds to go towards a cure for her debilitating condition by biking 100 miles from her home. Alia Jones (14) suffers with constant extreme exhaustion due to suffering mitochondrial disease. But hope has come from The Lily Foundation, a charity set up to find a cure which ...

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Donations for the Agape food bank

Spalding’s Agape Food Bank is the latest group to benefit from our Donate A Dinner appeal. The food bank, which is operated by Chas Sandhu of the Lighthouse Church, will be the beneficiary of any items donated this week. The Spalding and South Holland Voice teamed up with Coun Harry Drury to launch Donate A Dinner – an appeal which ...

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A cool way to raise money

A motor neurone disease sufferer who has raised thousands of pounds for charity is hoping to raise awareness of the condition while raising a bit more cash. Nigel Brasier, of Donington, has reinvented the Ice Bucket Challenge – renaming it the Ice-Olation Bucket Challenge – in a bid to raise awareness of the Motor Neurone Disease Association. The Ice Bucket ...

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Soaring efforts from air cadets

The lockdown hasn’t completely grounded Spalding Air Cadets with creating hundreds of items of protective clothing among the activities they’ve been carrying out. So far the 1406 (Spalding) Squadron of the RAF Air Cadets have printed and made over 300 face masks and 1,500 ear savers. Spalding Air Cadets’ Keris Moore (15) is among those making protective equipment and is ...

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GALLERY – Donations galore presented with help from Ella’s Project

Protective masks for a local school and more scrubs for NHS staff are among the items donated by a Spalding charity this week. Ella’s Project, set up and run by Mark Le Sage, has been helping provide support where needed. And they’ve teamed up with the For the Love of Scrubs group which are co-ordinating those making equipment in Lincolnshire. ...

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Thanks shown to teaching staff

Parents have shown their appreciation for the teachers supporting their children during lockdown. Parents of pupils at Spalding’s St Norbert’s Primary School gave teachers gifts and did a mini clap for teachers to say thank you. Melissa Ford, whose son Noah (7) attends the school, said: “I have always felt the staff there go above and beyond for all of ...

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Dancers are Diamondz in the lockdown

A dance school’s efforts to continue during the lockdown has led to them composing a video of thanks for NHS staff. Diamondz School of Dance which is usually based in Bourne Road, Spalding, has around 110 students after being set up by Abbi Thompson 13 years ago. She started it when aged 16 and it’s grown since then including moving ...

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A fish and chip thank you in memory of dad

Residents and staff at Holbeach Hospital were treated to a fish and chip supper as a thank you for the care they gave a former patient. The Hungry Plaice donated over 50 freshly cooked meals for those there and even came back later on Wednesday, May 20 so the evening staff didn’t miss out. Owner Georgina Lee-Price put on the ...

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Councillors give back to charities

Good causes in South Holland have received grants from Lincolnshire County Council to support them during the coronavirus pandemic. All eight councillors covering divisions in our district have helped to issue cash from the Covid-19 Community Fund Scheme. Each of the 70 county councillors is able to allocate up to £3,000 to community groups in their division. As of May ...

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Support for food banks, one of which has seen a huge year-on-year increase in use

Two local food banks have been given thousands of pounds to be able to continue to help some of the most vulnerable in South Holland with one reporting a nearly 550 per cent increase in its service last month. Both the Agape Food Bank in Spalding and Holbeach’s Food Bank have received the grants to help them continue through the ...

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Food bank is our latest recipient

Holbeach Food Bank is the latest group to benefit from the Donate A Dinner appeal. The Spalding and South Holland Voice teamed up with South Holland district councillor Harry Drury to launch the campaign at the start of April. Since then generous donations have ensured that scores of groups and individuals across the district have been supported. The idea behind ...

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Kindness Team will disband in June

The Spalding COVID Kindness Team will disband at the end of next month. The committee behind the team has decided to close it on June 28. On a post on their Facebook page, founder Keira Williamson said: “This decision has not been an easy one to make. “We are not by any means out of the COVID woods yet, but ...

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Women’s Great bid to raise funds

A woman is looking to beat The Great North Run in September alongside her friend just months after beating breast cancer. Teresa Walton, of Weston, was diagnosed with the disease after a routine mammogram just two days after son Sam got married last July. But after radiotherapy she was given the all clear on New Year’s Eve and is now ...

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El of a gesture for carers

Ella’s Project has continued to provide treats and essentials for local groups. The group set up by Mark Le Sage has been working with a number of local people including Diane Virden, Ros Reynolds and Louise Neal to help provide scrubs for local carers. They’ve also presented flowers and this week were able to donate cupcakes made by Janet Bowden. ...

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