Events

Holbeach had a superb Christmas event thanks to hard work by a small committee over just ten weeks. It seemed like there would be no festive event this year until Jane Francis and a small group of helpers organised the Victorian-themed St Nicholas Fayre, based around All Saints’ Church. The first meeting was in mid-September and yet last Saturday and ...

  Renovation works at a Spalding church, which were made possible by a large bequest, are taking a little longer than anticipated. The £600,000 project started at St John the Baptist Church in Hawthorn Bank back in April and was expected to be completed by October. However, unforeseen circumstances mean the work is still going on and Christmas services will ...

Artists are invited to enter a competition designed to showcase the best work created by professionals and amateurs across the region. Entries are now open for the 15th South Holland Open Arts Exhibition which will take place at the South Holland Centre in Spalding from March 5 to 12. Artists can submit their work and an independent panel of judges ...

The Rotary Club of Holbeach are once again playing host to Santa and accompanying him on his tour of the area. To follow his progress and find out when he will be arriving in your area, search for Rotary Club of Holbeach on Facebook.

East Elloe Lions are spreading some festive cheer with their Santa’s sleigh tour. On Saturday the Lions will be taking part in Holbeach Christmas Fayre and the sleigh will be sited outside Holbeach Church. Santa will be housed in the children’s corner inside the church and will be looking forward to welcoming children and their parents from 11am until 4pm. ...

Spalding Lions will be accompanying Santa and his sleigh on his annual trip around the villages, spreading festive joy wherever they go. Thursday, December 4: Quadring – Town Drove, Casswell Drive, Boyfields, Ashwin Gate, Doecotes, Ludlow Gardens, Watergate, Gosberton Road, St Margarets. Monday, December 8: Gosberton – High Street, Park Close, Bowgate, Lila Drive, Churchfleet Lane, Poachers Hide, Welby Drive, ...

There will be a break with tradition this festive season as Long Sutton’s long-running Christmas Market moves under cover. But tradition will be upheld in other aspects as the market will boast its usual Santa’s grotto, children rides, hot roast chestnuts, craft stall, competitions, raffles and lots of people – although this year they will be protected from the biting ...

Santa is getting ready to climb aboard his sleigh for his annual ride around Spalding to see who has been naughty and nice. The Rotary Club of South Holland and other organisations will be starting their rounds with Santa’s sleigh on December 1 and hope to visit as many homes as possible before the big day. The first outing for ...

  Organisers of a village balloon race were left astounded after receiving a return ticket all the way from California! The helium-filled balloon took just nine days to travel some 5,144 miles and arrived faster than a letter sent via the post to the man who found it! Hundreds of balloons were released from Glen Park as part of the ...

It may have been a long time coming and fraught with more than one issue along the way, but Spalding finally has a new town centre manager in post. Dennis Hannant took up the role last week and immediately set about increasing the profile of the town centre by fixing dates for a series of events during 2015. Yet he ...

Vintage Hollywood was the theme for this year’s Kidney Research Ball and guests went all out with the glitz and glamour. Sisters Natalie Herring and Hannah Robinson and family friend Richard Spurr rolled out the red carpet at Spalding’s Springfields Events Centre and raised £6,000 for the charity, taking their five year fundraising total to more than £30,000. The trio ...

Fireworks events across the district went with a bang. Around 8,000 people went to the Tulip Radio display held at the Memorial Field in Spalding, while people turned out in droves to see the spectacular display put on by Harold Payne at Fleet’s Anglia Motel. Allotment holders, friends and family got together at Spalding’s Horseshoe Road allotments to celebrate.

Spalding retailers are doing everything they can to make the town sparkle this Christmas. For three days at the end of November, there will be loads of things going on in the town in a bid to attract Christmas shoppers. Friday, November 28, is the date for the switch-on of the town’s Christmas lights display, organised by Tulip Radio and ...

More than 165 people turned up to support a Weight Watchers group’s charity fashion show. The event, organised by Weight Watchers group leader Helen Webster, also featured a healthy cooking demonstration upstairs at Spalding’s Beales department store, live entertainment from the Two of Us, local businesses pampering guests with mini manicures and other beauty treatments, a raffle and instore competitions. ...

HOLBEACH: Sunday, 2pm – Parade musters at South Holland Boxing Academy, Fleet Street, and heads to war memorial for the Act of Remembrance and wreath laying. Followed by Remembrance Service in All Saints’ Church. After the service, sunset will take place before the parade returns to the muster point. Salute on return will be taken by HM Lord Lieutenant of ...

Holbeach broke the all-time record for high temperature in Lincolnshire on Halloween. The weather station at RAF Holbeach recorded 21 degrees Celsius (70 degrees Fahrenheit) on Friday. Meanwhile, unseasonably warm weather brought hundreds of Trick or Treaters on to the streets in towns and villages across South Holland. And themed parties were popular too – the submitted photo above shows one ...

Soap stars Gaynor Faye and Jamie Shelton will be bringing light to Springfields Outlet Shopping when they flick the switch on this year’s wonderful Christmas lights display. The pair, who play Megan and Robbie in ITV’s Emmerdale, will be switching on the Christmas lights on Thursday (Oct 30). The fun-filled festive evening kicks off at 6pm with lots of great activities for ...

A school bonfire and fireworks event which has run for almost 30 years has been cancelled due to insurance costs. Moulton Chapel Primary School had to pull the plug on the November 7 function. Headteacher Lisa Meacher said the decision was taken with a heavy heart and only after a number of other options were explored. “With regulations changing and ...

Over 100 people celebrated Churches Together in Spalding and District’s 60th anniversary on Sunday. The event commemorated 60 years of ecumenical life, worship and service, meeting at Spalding Grammar School where the Council of Churches first met, in the school library, on February 16, 1954. Welcomed by Kevin Taylor, guest speaker The Venerable Tim Barker, Archdeacon of Lincoln and Chair ...

Wednesday, October 8, was scheduled to be a training day for all of South Holland’s police officers and PCSOs to receive training about new legislation to tackle anti-social behaviour. The training, which had started at 9am, was still ongoing when the first report of a military aircraft crashing in Weston Hills was received. Spalding’s community policing inspector Jim Tyner, who was ...