A South Holland District Council-owned housing company has once again given its profits to charity. Welland Homes made a £128,274 profit which has been shared between Citizens Advice South Lincolnshire, the Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service, Active Lincolnshire and South Holland in Bloom. Citizens Advice South Lincolnshire will receive £88,074, which will be used in its goals to provide free ...

A Spalding special school is appealing for help as it looks to fund a minibus so its pupils can experience even more fantastic adventures. The Tulip Academy looks after SEND (Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities)pupils.“As our school community already knows, we have a mission of ‘Making every Moment Matter’, which means putting our learners first,” a spokesman for the school ...

Time is running out for South Holland residents to add ideas to a heritage strategy for the area. South Holland District Council is working with Heritage Lincolnshire to create a strategy for Spalding.Over the next ten years, the Spalding Heritage Strategy will see groups and funders join forces with the district and county council.A survey online is due to end ...

This week marks 50 years since South Holland District Council was created. It was formed on April 1, 1974 replacing three former districts of East Elloe, Spalding Rural and Spalding Urban.It’s current leader Coun Nick Worth said: “I am delighted the council has been proudly serving residents in the district for 50 years. It is a real milestone in the ...

Spalding has been hit by a spate of incidents of graffiti leading to a councillor to ask for anyone with information on the perpetrators to contact the police. Even council-owned street art has been targeted, leading to county and district councillor Gary Taylor’s call at Spalding Town Forum last week.“We had the problem in Spalding before, it was one or ...

The Spalding branch of the Inner Wheel Club has celebrated its 70th and the organisation’s 100th anniversaries. The international women’s group was initially formed by the wives of Rotarians in Manchester in 1923, with the Spalding branch forming just over 30 years later.To mark both milestones, members invited others from the club to join them at Spalding Golf Club for ...

Councillors have criticised the transparency of top council officer pay rises that have been voted through after already having taken place. As previously reported, in October East Lindsey District Council voted to increase the pay of the chief executive who oversees the South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership, which South Holland is part of with Boston Borough Council.The Voice asked ...

Several roads in Moulton and Holbeach are set to get a new surface. They are among 50 in the county to get micro-asphalt surface at a cost of £500,000 to Lincolnshire County Council.The roads to be surfaced within six weeks from Monday, April 8 are, Hatt Close, Moulton, Burnstone Gardens, Moulton, Willders Garth, Holbeach, Creewood Close, Holbeach, Windsor Avenue, Holbeach, ...

Awake, citizens of Holbeach, awake!Your sewage problems are the fault of one company, Anglian Water, which is led by Chief Executive Officer Peter Simpson.His email address is psimpson@anglianwater.co.uk, his postal address is Lancaster House, Lancaster Way, Ermine Business Park, Huntingdon, Cambs, PE29 6YJ.You need to email him or write to him to tell him of your disgust at his lack ...

We will all be paying energy firms £1.3bn in annual charges to help them recover bad debt from April 1, 2024.Despite billions of pounds in profits, the firms will bill each of us an average of £28 a year extra to pay for the cost of recovering bad debts.And a new report by the Warm This Winter (WTW) campaign also ...

In the March 28th edition of the Spalding Voice, was a letter from D. Loos, a Fleet Hargate resident, complaining about the work going on the area, replacing the gas transport system (the pipes).I have also lived in the same village for the past 33 years, and applaud the work going on to make the gas infrastructure safer for us ...

Referring to Mark Hadley’s letter in Spalding Voice (March 20) regarding dog attacks, I always carry a small bottle of washing up liquid with me when walking my little dog and will not hesitate to squirt it into a dog’s eyes who wants to savage my dog or indeed to a person who wishes to harm either one of us.The ...

John Hayes is leading a lobby against the creation of a new pylon route through the district.Well, OK, but; those involved should go further than protest: they should reveal the alternative they have in mind.The National Grid is already on the brink of inadequacy in relation to the new modes of power generation – wind and sun – now coming ...

The Environment Agency says it can’t put a time limit on when work to fix breaches in the banks of the River Welland will be completed, as a local fisherman warned Spalding will lose its prestige for fishing. The water levels in the waterway will not be returned to normal levels until the breach is fixed with work due to ...

Two Spalding Rotarians helped a fellow member from East Sussex in his charity cycle ride. James Slinn, the president of the Rotary Club of Bexhill, is on a mammoth ride of 2,500 miles raising money for the DISC Dementia Support and Sarah Lee Trust.He stopped in Spalding on Saturday night, after riding 52 miles with Graham Dawson of the Spalding ...

The Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance (LNAA) is giving a mega toe-tapping thanks to the Ukulele Orchestra of Spalding for raising a fantastic £500 from events and concerts in aid of its life-saving work. The group’s secretary Katy Walker said: “It was a unanimous decision by us all to nominate LNAA.“The air ambulance is a vital device and we all ...

A charity’s drive to get more people on their bike has moved up another gear after taking on a new mechanic. Tonic Health launched Wheels For Life with Active Lincolnshire last year. The scheme takes in donated old and broken bikes and will make them usable again for those who might otherwise not have access to a bike.The scheme has ...

Crowland Community Preschool had a special visitor to walk with them on their Easter bonnet parade on Maundy Thursday. Children and staff were joined by the Easter Bunny to walk around Crowland saying hello to the local shop owners and customers.A spokesman for the school said: “The pupils looked great showcasing their bonnets which they made followed by an afternoon ...

Spalding’s Community Connectors are holding fortnightly coffee and cake drop in sessions for those who may need them. Vanessa Collins and Jo Ireland are based at Tonic Health at Broadgate House on Westlode Street.“Our job is about connecting people to local services that are right for them, whatever that might be,” Jo said. “It helps people meet even more faces.“Anyone ...

The majority of Moulton Park looks set to be opened up to the public with planners being recommended to approve change of use permission. The John and Maureen Biggadike Foundation, a charity set up following the death of the aforementioned John for good causes in Moulton, bought the land last year.They’ve given a small part to be allocated for a ...