Fundraising

The South Holland Rotary Club has been back out on the streets raising money in a bid to eradicate polio. The Rotary movement has raised millions and played a large part in tackling the disease, lowering the number of annual cases by 99.9 per cent since taking on the fundraising effort 35 years ago. The South Holland branch has played ...

A Spalding charity that’s raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for healthcare in the town has wound down by giving away a total of £70,000 to local good causes. The Pennygate Patient Link was set up to raise funds for the surgery of the same name and since 2001 it has been responsible for the charity shop on Winsover Road. ...

Special thanks have been given to volunteers who have helped Ella’s Project to aid the community during the coronavirus pandemic. The group, which is part of The Rightside Trust, has made a number of donations of items including protective equipment it sourced, particularly to healthcare workers. Mark Le Sage, who runs the project named after his daughter, recently thanked four ...

A group of volunteers who’ve been creating face masks to keep people safe took to Spalding Market on Saturday – and even raised money for charity. The Spalding Community Mask Hub started making them for carers during the lockdown and has continued to create them for others. All they ask for in return is donations to the charities they support. ...

Despite coronavirus and only having one shop open – the Chosen charity has raised thousands of pounds this year. The Holbeach-based charity has given more than £18,000 to local good causes so far. The charity has moved shops, only had one open and was hit by lockdown restrictions. But it hopes to re-open its Fleet Street shop as a Christmas ...

It was a London Marathon like no other, but South Holland runners stayed the course to raise money for various charities. Only the world’s top elite athletes were in the capital on Sunday, while thousands of the individual, club and fun runners completed the distance in their own part of the world. Teacher Frances Crampton and teaching assistant Louise Compton, ...

Was that Santa at Holbeach Fire Station last week? It might be a little early, but Father Christmas was indeed in town and spotted at the Station Street office. He’d popped in to help with a new charity calendar that Holbeach Fire Crew is putting together which will be available in the next few months. It’s looking to raise money ...

A 75-year-old from Long Sutton has raised over £1,500 towards a six-year-old with a brain tumour by walking 31.6 miles. Noel Bratt alongside his daughter Keily Cleary took 13 hours and 45 minutes to walk the distance from Ely Cathedral to his Long Sutton home. It was all to raise money for family friend Edie Jackson who is battling a ...

Holbeach Fire Crew showed how soppy they can get last weekend. They took on a charity car wash at the town’s Tesco on Saturday, raising £162 for the Firefighters Charity. A spokesman for Holbeach Fire Crew would like to thank everyone who came along and supported the event by getting their car washed and special thanks to the manager and ...

An incredible two-year-old who has fought off a host of medical issues has completed a 27-mile sponsored walk. Alfie Barraclough, of Holbeach, has raised over £1,000 for the charity Bliss which helps the family of premature or sick babies such as himself. Alfie was born 12 weeks premature, weighing just 1lb 7oz and has battled health issues for most of ...

Pupils at Gosberton Academy have put together a golden charity effort. To mark Go Gold for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month all of the pupils dressed up in gold or yellow on Friday, September 25. And with two pupils at the school battling leukaemia, the children were only too happy to raise money for the initiative set up by the Children’s ...

A Spalding couple are spending this week living on the rations given to Syrian refugees as they look to held feed a similar sized family for a year. Sam and Craig Luff are taking part in Concern Worldwide’s Ration challenge with all of their meals this week set to come from rice, flour, 170g of red lentils, 85g of chickpeas, ...

A 75-year-old former driving tutor is to walk 32 miles for a six-year-old with a brain tumour. Noel Bratt is walking from his Long Sutton home to Ely with daughter Keily Cleary to raise money for Edie Jackson. Noel and his wife Janet are longtime friends of Edie’s family having grown up alongside his grandparents in Essex. And after hearing ...

A Spalding lady is urging women to send her their old bras to raise money for a breast cancer charity. Keleigh Smalley-Willows, (pictured) who runs The Melty Wax Company, is collecting the items for the Against Breast Cancer Charity. Bras donated are recycled by the charity who are then given money to go towards research work. Keleigh has a Bra ...

A new fundraising charity quiz has been created, to help us all during these difficult times, and to exercise those little grey cells. Spalding Gentleman’s Society’s latest is themed on ‘Numbers’ and has been created by Dave Jacobs. Dave Jacobs with the quiz. There will be three prizes, £20 for first place, £10 for second, and a £5 random prize, ...

The 2020 London Marathon may not be taking part for the non-elite, but that’s not going to stop local runners like Samantha Hall and Shaun Turner. After ten years of trying, Shaun (43) was delighted to finally get into this year’s event, initially set for April before being put back to October 4. Samantha Hall It’s now been cancelled but ...

Three friends are walking a “Hundred Miles Home” to raise cash for three charities that are close to their hearts. Hollie Atkin (25), Lauren Day (33) and Charlotte Walsh (26) will be dropped off in Hemsby on August 17 and over the following five days will be walking their way back home. They will be camping on the way which ...

Pinchbeck Village Hall is taking to a different kind of booking than it normally does to keep income coming through. The committee who run the amenity are putting on weekly book sales from 10am to 12 noon event Saturday. It’s hoped sales will help recoup some of the loss of income due to the usual coffee mornings and gatherings not ...

An army veteran is looking to raise money for charity by riding his motor bike from his Long Sutton home to the Arctic Circle. Alex Belokon, who will turn 70 in November, is hoping to bike over 6,500 miles to North Cape in Norway, the most northerly road in mainland Europe. And he’s hoping to raise money for The Veterans ...

The lockdown may be easing but a Spalding group is continuing to work with others to provide essential items such as PPE where needed. Ella’s Project led by practicing nurse Mark Le Sage has been busier than ever with a host of projects. And it’s received a financial boost after Coun Angela Newton and Elizabeth Sneath provided it with some ...