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no images were found Almost 200 of South Holland’s key business leaders gathered at the Springfields Event Centre to celebrate the best in innovation, hard work, entrepreneurial spirit and customer care within the area. “Now in its second year, the South Holland Business Awards once again showcased the outstanding level of innovation and services being developed across our diverse and ...

Promising entrepreneurs looking to profit from the recent upturn in the regional economy are being invited to The Franchise Conference in Woodhall Spa. According to the second RBS Regional Growth Tracker, the East Midlands is the fastest growing English region in 2014 and is one of four regions which have now grown bigger than their pre-2008 peak. Julie Taylor, managing ...

A new web portal is to be launched to help businesses in Greater Lincolnshire use digital technology to grow. The Growing through Technology in Lincolnshire online project will provide factsheets, how-to guides and videos to encourage firms to get online and grow their business through digital technology. E-learning courses will also be available through the new service. Funding totalling £176,000 ...

The message was ‘business as usual’ as Roythornes Solicitors marked the retirement from its partnership of two leading lights of the legal world. Around 250 guests attended an event at Stoke Rochford Hall to mark the retirement of partners Phil Brewster and Graham Smith, who between them have given over 83 years’ service to the firm’s agricultural business and land ...

Young people are being offered the chance to get valuable experience which could get help them get a job. More than 830 young people aged between 16 and 18 in Lincolnshire are registered as NEET – not in education, employment or training. But a new joint scheme between Fresh Meal Solutions and Lincolnshire County Council Young People’s Learning Provision (YPLP) ...

Two site managers at a Spalding housing development have been recognised as the best in their field after winning a top industry award. Andrew Smith and Greg Wimsey, site managers at Kier Living Eastern’s Kingfisher Court, won a National House Building Council’s Seal of Excellence for the Eastern region. The Seal of Excellence recognises and rewards the UK’s best site ...

Steadfast Training Ltd are celebrating their “500th Young Apprentice”. Matthew Tyrell, a previous Spalding Grammar School pupil, joined Roythornes Solicitors to undertake a Level 2 Business Administration Apprenticeship. He said: “I am pleased to be undertaking an apprenticeship at a solicitors with a good reputation, to help my employment opportunities in the future, whilst getting paid to learn. “The support ...

A manufacturing business renowned for the quality of its timber products has celebrated 130 years in Donington. George Barnsdale threw a birthday bash at its High Street site last Saturday. The event brought together three generations of the Barnsdale family, alongside past and present members of staff and their families. South Holland and the Deepings MP John Hayes attended to ...

A new Spalding town centre manager has been recruited to shape the future of the town and help unite businesses. Ex-Army major Dennis Hannant has recently completed a 43-year career in the service and brings many years of military and commercial business experience to the role, which he starts in November. Dennis says he understands the challenges facing Spalding town ...

Plans to refit a Spalding butcher’s shop have been given the go ahead – despite objections from the town’s Civic Society. T Law and Sons has been sold to Simpson Butchers, which wants to carry out a £150,000 refit of the Hall Place shop. Plans went before South Holland District Council’s planning committee last week when they were passed unanimously. ...

In an ideal world, we would all buy insurance against the financial cost of horrible things happening in our lives – death, serious illness or long-term ill health. Unfortunately, this isn’t the case. Maybe we have better things to do with our hard-earned money. Or, perhaps we have a subconscious suspicion that maybe the insurance won’t actually pay up in ...

A lorry ploughed through the corner of a restaurant where staff were resting on Monday evening. Incredibly, no one was seriously hurt in the crash which happened in High Road, Whaplode, during heavy rain at about 9pm. Arfon and Tracey Lewis were in a car behind the lorry as it veered across the A151 and struck Indian restaurant Spice Cottage. ...

Two Spalding businesses are feeling the benefit of applying to a capital grants project delivered by South Holland District Council. Welland Engineering received £25,000 towards the cost of roof insulation, and Simon Barker Plumbing and Heating got £6,000 help to buy two new vans. Both firms said how simple the Grants4Growth application process was and recommended others to look into ...

Final touches are being put to plans for filming of a television commercial to promote what Spalding has to offer. The town centre, market, Ayscoughfee, water taxis and The Crescent are likely to feature, as is Springfields Outlet Shopping Complex. The television advert, which is likely to air next Easter or summer, is a joint enterprise between South Holland District ...

What’s in a name? Well, quite a bit a Spalding hairdressers’ shop has found out. There was bemusement from some social media users and anger from others last week over the spelling of Colors & Curls, a new business in Winsover Road. There was even a suggestion on Facebook page Spotted:Spalding that “Colors” was a spelling mistake, rather than intentionally ...

A firm which has been manufacturing timber windows and doors in Donington since 1884 is planning to dramatically reduce its heating bills by utilising factory by-products. And George Barnsdale is also looking to grow this year by recruiting engineer graduates, and is hoping to find some local talent. The High Street firm says it is dedicated to the environment and ...

Europe’s largest producer of pumpkins is confident that he won’t be left sweating over the readiness of this year’s Spalding crop. David Bowman says a combination of the 2014 weather and years of experience tells him not to lose any sleep over the imminent harvest. In some wet years recently his firm has been a little concerned that its crop ...

Kerry Foods, which has a large factory in Spalding, has been bought for an undisclosed amount. Pork Farms Group has acquired the manufacturing, warehouse and back office support functions of Kerry Foods’ Spalding and Poole sites. A spokesman for Pork Farms Group told The Voice: “With regards to job implications for the Spalding site, while we can never rule out the ...

A proposed new Spar shop in Spalding, which caused a storm of protest when planning permission was sought five years ago, is finally to be built. The developer has confirmed to The Voice that work on the store in Winsover Road will get under way in 2015. A spokesman said: “I can confirm it’s a store we hope to build ...

An essential event for Greater Lincolnshire businesses will take place in October. LEP Business Live will bring together two events in one: last year’s successful Business Live event and the annual summit of the Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP). The free event will take place at the EPIC Centre, Lincolnshire Showground, on Friday, October 24 and will feature exhibitors, ...