Fundraising

Events organised at their homes by twin sisters Diane Tilley and Elaine Ladds raised £855 for Boston Breast Unit at Pilgrim Hospital. Diane and her friends raised £565 with a coffee morning in Westminster Drive, Spalding, and Elaine made £290 through craft days at her bungalow in Fosdyke. They said: “We wanted to raise the money in memory of our late ...

South Holland residents are being encouraged to support a charity auction at Spalding Market on Saturday, April 4. It will raise funds for the RNLI service at Skegness. Organiser Justin Grimshaw, of Pendragon Antiques, who will be assisted by M&A Auctions, says there are no limits to what type of goods can be entered – but they must be regarded ...

Customers at Springfields Home and Garden Centre in Spalding who bought carrier bags have supported Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance. The £912 proceeds, which garden centre manager Joe Garland is pictured presenting to Anne Palmer, a volunteer at the charity’s Spalding shop, includes donations to collection boxes.

Spalding and District Young Farmers’ Club have new logoed clothing thanks to a donation by Spalding Beerfest and Music Festival. Spalding YFC gave volunteer help at last year’s first annual beerfest, organised by Spalding and District Round Table and Spalding and District Ladies’ Circle. The beerfest committee gave a £1,000 donation to Spalding YFC by way of appreciation and this ...

The Rotary Club of South Holland has formally thanked the many clubs and  organisations which helped with the 2016 Christmas Sleigh Collection. Representatives attended the Rotary Club’s meeting at The Woodlands Hotel last week and were presented with cheques in recognition of their groups’ help. Club president Steve Colby said: “Since we first began the sleigh collection in 1986 there ...

Villagers have rallied to support the owner of their local shop after a break-in – launching a fundraising bid for beefed-up security and quickly topping £500. So many people turned up to help in the clear-up of Cowbit Village Store after up to £1,000 of cigarettes and alcohol was stolen that owner Colin Foxwell had to turn some away. Shop ...

Donations by members of the public wowed by Jack Turner’s well-known annual Christmas lights display raised £1,058 for Holbeach and East Elloe Hospital Trust last year. Each year the Fleet Road homeowner puts on a spectacle which attracts visitors from miles around. Hospital manager Maxine Winch said: “On behalf of Holbeach and East Elloe Hospital Trust, I would like to ...

Moulton Ladies have made donations totalling £1,000 to seven good causes. Representatives from Macmillan Cancer Support, Moulton Mill, St Barnabas, Moulton Community Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn radiology department, The Salvation Army Boston and Holbeach Hospital collected cheques at this month’s meeting. The group holds various fundraising events throughout the year and then decides at its annual general meeting in ...

Former two-weight world champion Carl Frampton packed a punch as star guest at Spalding and District Round Table’s boxing night. The charitable organisation added to the more than £200,000 it has raised over the previous 22 annual events, with proceeds going to good causes in the area. Frampton was the talk of last Saturday’s event at Springfields Events Centre in ...

A first fundraising calendar for Lincs and Notts Air Ambulance was so popular that the person who came up with the idea has made a date to do it all again. The venture by Surfleet resident Rachel Rodgers raised £4,747 for the charity, which needs £2.1m a year. Rachel set up Twitter account @LincsSkies last year, enabling photographers to share ...

The charity LIVES has issued a plea for continued financial support after experiencing its busiest year on record. It responded to 20,516 emergency calls to patients across Lincolnshire in 2016 – an increase of more than 2,000 on the previous year.  The trend of increasing calls is continuing into 2017 with LIVES responders kept exceptionally busy over the new year ...

A wind farm developer is putting £52,000 per year into a community fund over the lifetime of the farm. Wryde Croft Wind Farm, which became fully operational in March last year, has 13 turbines between Crowland and Thorney. The area of benefit for grants (6km radius of the farm) includes Crowland, Fleet, Gedney Hill, Holbeach, Sutton St Edmund and Whaplode. ...

The star attraction at the annual Johnson Community Hospital ball this summer is Strictly Come Dancing stars Anton Du Beke and Erin Boag.  The pair will hit the dance floor as special guests of The Strictly Johnson Glitter Ball at Springfields Events and Conference Centre in Spalding on Saturday, July 8. The ball committee is offering sponsorship packages for the ...

A South Holland couple are aiming to raise awareness about a charity that has the potential to save lives.     Philip and Heather James, of Fleet Hargate, are championing the cause for the Medical Detection Dogs charity.   They have launched an online petition which is aiming to get 10,000 signatures to ensure the charity’s lack of funding will ...

Laura Hudson likes a challenge, but she’s having to keep mum about the outcome of one of them for now. The Donington 27-year-old has competed in the current series of ITV hit show Ninja Warrior UK, being screened on Saturday nights. Her effort over the demanding obstacle course, which finishes with an attempt to “beat the wall” – a run ...

by Karen Johnson South Holland District Council community development officer It is really exciting to learn when a new community fund is announced and in particular one that I am personally involved in. That’s why it is great to tell you about the East Coast Community Fund. Each year for the next 20 years, approximately £390,000 will be available from ...

Holbeach Tesco has now handed over a total of £16,500 towards the regeneration of Carter’s Park.   On Tuesday (Jan 10), Holbeach Parish Council was presented with £4,500 collected in store by staff and parish councillors. This added to a £12,000 grant by Tesco from its Bags of Help scheme in which money raised from the government’s 5p carrier bag charge is ...

Organisers of the Holbeach Music and Beer Festival have handed over £6,000 profit from the 2016 event. The funds raised have been donated to the Holbeach United Community Sports Academy and will go a massive way to helping with the running costs. The Community Sports Academy provides a footballing home for nearly 200 young footballers with teams ranging from Under 6 to Under ...

Spalding High School’s deputy head girl Rosie Stevenson is on a fundraising mission to ensure her place on a trip of a lifetime. The 17-year-old has been selected to spend a year as a volunteer in Honduras for Project Trust where she will spend 12 months working as a teacher in either a primary or secondary school. Rosie, who is ...

A mammoth fundraising effort by a mum whose daughter has been undergoing chemotherapy treatment at Boston’s Pilgrim Hospital for two years paid off handsomely. The Christmas fair held at Janet Pell’s bungalow in Broadgate, Weston Hills raised £2,205. Mrs Pell, mum to cancer sufferer Mandy Beecham, made 221 phone calls to local businesses seeking raffle prizes. She said: “It was ...