Events

Award winning artist Vic Bearcroft had Spalding Art and Crafts Society howling at their latest meeting. Vic specialises in animal portraits and he provided a demonstration of pastel and black valour using just four colours.   Vic created Howling Wolf from an original photo taken in a Berkshire Wildlife centre of a North American grey wolf called Nuka. The meeting ...

Ice cream and sweets shop Laddies Ices has won the Holbeach Christmas Window competition. The competition launched in December and saw the town adopt a festive feel as participating shops dressed their windows. Judith Snowden from Laddies Ices said: “It’s great to be a part of something like this that makes a difference to the town.” The windows were judged ...

Youngsters who want to get into the arts have the chance to plan, organise, perform at or run a mini-festival at the South Holland Centre. South Holland Centre’s Youth Takeover Team and Lincolnshire One Venues network host the Emerge project that aims to give young people a start in the arts. The scheme will also offer an arts award. “There ...

Dance and drama groups with a disability or inclusive focus are wanted by Transported and artsNK who are putting on a show in March at the South Holland Centre. The free performance on Friday, March 9, will be the second of the organisation’s Inclusive Dance Platform events. The night will be headlined with a performance by professional dance group Casson ...

Holbeach Red Hatters took some festive spirit to St John’s Care Home, Spalding. The Fen Fatales (pictured), in their trademark clashing colours of purple with a red hat, sang for all residents – even those who were in their rooms. The Red Hatters is a group aimed at women over the age of 50 looking to “grow old disgracefully”.

Friends of Johnson Community Hospital brought the sound of Christmas to patients at the weekend. South Holland and the Deepings MP John Hayes, South Holland District Council leader Rodney Grocock and Coun Elizabeth Sneath read the lessons. The St Mary and St Nicholas Singers sung carols while Rodney Britten played the organ for the party. Father Christmas also arrived with ...

Sunday’s snowfall wasn’t enough to dampen spirits at the Long Sutton Christmas Fayre. The event at St Mary’s Church featured a return of Santa’s grotto, which hundreds of children visited for free. Long Sutton Parish Council Chairman Charles Moore said after the event: “Well we did it! Another year completed with just shy of 300 children in to meet Father ...

St Paul’s School in Queen’s Road, Spalding is holding its Christmas Fete this Saturday, (December 9). The fun starts from 11am with a host of stalls and games on offer as well as the opportunity to visit Santa in his grotto. Entertainment will also be provided by the school’s choir singing Christmas carols.  

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas with Spalding getting ready for Saturday’s festive lights switch on. The official turning on of the Christmas tree lights is due to take place around 5pm on Saturday, amid a day of celebration in the Market Place. Santa himself will be in town accompanied by the Rotary Club of South Holland. Spalding’s ...

An acclaimed equestrian artist gave a painting demonstration at a recent Spalding Arts and Crafts Society meeting. Award-winning painter Jane Lazenby travelled to Pinchbeck to show how to immortalise a horse using pencil and acrylic paint. A Spalding Arts and Crafts Society spokesman said: “Jane’s love of horses came through in her painting of a runaway horse based on a ...

A public meeting is to be held in town on plans to turn Spalding’s Post 16 Centre into an academy for youngsters who may have been excluded from other schools or have problems. Springwell Alternative Academy’s proposal to convert the Matmore Gate building has met some opposition with a petition having been launched opposing the move. The meeting will run ...

Santa will be out and about touring the district with the Spalding Lions. Monday, December 4 – Donington: Park Lane, Gleed Avenue, Church View Close, Church Street, Main Road, Church Lane, Browntoft Lane, Manchester Way, Badgate Lane, Crosslands, Mill Lane, Mallards Reach, Saxony Way, Highfield Road, Market Place. Tuesday, December 5 – Donington: Market Place, Station Street, Barnes Road, Cowleys ...

This weekend sees a raft of Remembrance Sunday events taking place right across South Holland. Pinchbeck: On Sunday there will be a service at the Baptist Church from 10.30am. The service at St Mary’s Church, Pinchbeck, beings at 10.45am. The parade will leave the village hall at 10:30 and then proceed to church. After the service, wreaths will be laid ...

Cold Feet star John Thomson added a bit of sparkle to Springfields when he switched on this year’s Christmas lights. The event was hosted by Heart FM’s breakfast show favourites Kev and Ros with live performances from Classical Reflections, as seen on BBC1’s TV programme The Voice and Spalding’s St Paul’s Community Primary School Choir. John Thomson switched on the ...

Spalding residents are being invited to remember loved ones with a Light Up a Life event later this month. St Barnabas Hospice will have a Tree of Life at each of its buildings and the community is being invited to dedicate a light. There will be nine events in November and December and each will feature readings, music and a ...

Long Sutton’s Ruby’s and Diamonds Party Boutique is staying open late this Saturday (October 28) for Circue De La Sinister, its day of “face art and special FX”. The shop’s facepainting, costume and prosthetics experts will be on hand to transform visitors into the zombie, ghoul, Gruffalo or any other creature they want to be this Halloween. Costumes will also ...

The prestigious Song For Lincolnshire competition will for the first time be held in Spalding. Hosted by BBC Radio Lincolnshire, the event is in its 23rd year and features live performances from the finalists, as well as sets from professional bands. Proceeds from the evening will go towards the Children In Need charity and the event will be broadcast live ...

A group dedicated to social cohesion has drawn upon leaders in business, politics and religion for its first meeting discussing the implications of the EU referendum. Social Issues in South Lincolnshire, a group run by Father Jonathan Sibley of St Mary’s Church, Long Sutton, met at Long Sutton Market House to discuss the economic implications of Brexit. Speakers included Lincolnshire ...

MP John Hayes was among a group of people who negotiated Spalding town centre with their vision impaired as part of an awareness campaign. The MP for South Holland and The Deepings took part in the event organised by Spalding Lions. He wore a special pair of heavily-tinted glasses and used a white stick to get a feel for some ...

Spalding Grammar School staff and pupils celebrated the 16th annual European Day of Languages with educational games, a themed dinner menu and two multilingual speakers. Head of Languages, Ms Dungarwalla, said she prepared a playlist of modern French, German and Spanish music to be played before school and during break time. Quizzes included a Guess The Country Eurovision Form Competition, ...