Community

Community music group soundLINCS has received a £20,000 boost towards growing their New Tricks project. New Tricks provides people over 50 years old of all musical abilities the chance to shape a new musical group around their passions. The project takes place across the county and the South Holland session is in Spalding at the South Holland Centre. The £20,000 ...

Spalding Hospice Foundation got baking to raise money for the Tulip Suite at Johnson Community Hospital. Volunteers raised £200 for the ward by holding a cake sale at the Market House, Long Sutton after one of their members passed away in the Tulip Suite recently. Spalding Hospice Foundation treasurer Liz Sneath said: “They were so grateful for the wonderful care ...

Dementia patients and their families are being encouraged to get involved in research as all three health trusts and the county council join forces. It is the first time a whole county has promised to get behind the national campaign. By 2025 it is predicted more than a million people will be diagnosed with dementia in the UK. The National ...

Nick Franklin will be running, swimming and cycling his way to raising £5,000 as he takes on five half iron man challenges over five consecutive days. The mammoth challenge has been inspired by Nick’s dad Graham who died from a heart attack in 2009 and his in-laws Geoff and Lynda, who have both survived cancer. From March 20-24, Nick will ...

Year 11 students from across the region attended Boston College’s first Prom Event at the Boston College: Spalding campus. School Proms are perhaps the biggest social event on the calendar for Year 11 and they are growing in popularity every year. Talented college students used this popularity to showcase their skills and help those anticipating their prom look and feel ...

Just under 25 per cent of South Holland’s children are living in poverty, according to a campaign group. Coalition pressure group End Child Poverty’s January 2018 report states that after housing costs, 4,320 children in South Holland are classed as in poverty, which is 23.97 per cent. Before housing costs, 2,729 children are classed as living in poverty. The group ...

Lincolnshire police aims to raise an extra £2.7m next year by a 5.8 per cent rise in council tax. Police and Crime Commissioner Marc Jones has revealed his proposed budget for the year and the rise would equate to 23p a week on a band D home. The increase appears to have support in the county as respondents to consultation ...

Bobby Bear, PCSO Naomi Newell and PCSO Tim Nicholls visited key stage 1 pupils at Cowbit St Mary’s Primary School last week to talk about the police. PCSO Newell said this included “how we are here to help people and respond to emergencies”. She added: “We discussed safe strangers and what to do if a child was lost, why we ...

Approval has been given for the Peele Community College to become an academy. The regional school commissioner has approved the move which would see the college join Holbeach in the Lincolnshire Educational Trust (LET). The Long Sutton school was rated as ‘inadequate’ in the latest Ofsted report published in July. As a result, it could be joining the LET if ...

A photographer who helps families capture precious memories of lost babies is taking on the London Marathon. Mum-of-two Marie Sampson (40) will be raising money for Remember My Baby, a charity that provides baby remembrance photography to parents who lose their baby in hospital. Marie, who suffered the loss of her twins, is one of the professional volunteer photographers who ...

Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn – one of South Holland’s maternity hospital options – is celebrating the first year of its Midwife-Led Pathway, which included the reintroduction of the Home Birth Service. Launched in February 2017 the Midwife-Led Pathway aimed to provide a less clinical approach for women having low risk pregnancies. A spokesman for the hospital said: “Since ...

Lincolnshire school pupils achieving a grade 4 or above in English and maths GCSE is above the national average. The latest figures released by the government have shown the county to be about average in several categories. But the news was a bit more mixed for schools in the Spalding area. While 97 per cent of students at Spalding Grammar ...

NHS staff from black and ethnic minority backgrounds have been sharing their experiences of working in Lincolnshire at a countywide conference. Anna Kusztyb works across the county for Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS), and was among those speaking at the third annual Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) conference on Friday afternoon. The event, which is run in partnership ...

South Holland school pupils have netted a football refereeing qualification. Twelve pupils from Spalding Grammar School were put through their paces by Lincolnshire FA referee tutors during the weekend-long training course, held at the school. The course entailed a two-hour evening induction session, followed by a full weekend of theoretical and practical workshops in order to provide the young people ...

Tickets and details have been released for this year’s St Barnabas Hospice Lipstick and Champagne Ladies Ball in Spalding. Booking ahead for Saturday, May 19, the charity ball will take place at Springfields Events Centre. Function band Starstruck Live will perform hits spanning from the 60s to today, and a there’ll be a disco. Vikki Allen, Community Fundraiser for St ...

Proposals to improve public access on a stretch of coast from Sutton Bridge to Skegness are out for consultation. Natural England has published a plan for the 57-mile stretch which, it hopes, will become part of the England Coastal Path. The path is a 2,700 mile walking route and the newest national trail being developed. Currently there is an eight ...

Almost 1,500 people under the age of 19 have a caring role and are supported by Lincolnshire County Council. But it’s estimated that there area many more who are missing out on support. The figure was revealed on Young Carers Awareness Day last Thursday. The county council is calling for more young carers to get in touch and let the ...

There has to be a very good reason to jump out of a perfectly good aeroplane. And one Gedney Hill mum certainly has good reason as she is raising money for a charity very close to her heart. But she will be marking Valentine’s Day by leaping from a plane. Aimee Bilham (35) will be raising money in memory of ...

A community owned group dedicated to organic and biodynamic vegetable, herb and flower seeds is to hold a workshop in Gosberton. The Seed Co-Operative, which was a BBC Future Food Award 2017 finalist at the BBC Food and Farming Awards, will hold its first workshop of the year at Gosberton Bank Nursery on February 17. David Price from the Seed ...

A woman wanting advice about a broken egg in her fridge dialled 999 for an ambulance. The East Midlands Ambulance Service has created a list of the top ten most inappropriate 999 calls in the last six months. Apart from the broken egg, a dead fox and a caller wanting someone to make breakfast were also logged by emergency call ...