Fundraising

Young people on the National Citizen Service personal and social development programme organised a fun day in Spalding to raise funds for two charities. Among the attractions at the Memorial Field clubhouse were snakes and bearded dragons to handle, an owl display, face painting and refreshments. The event raised about £700 for Medical Detection Dogs and Cancer Research. As part ...

Members of a Spalding cycling group are taking on the Land’s End to John O’Groats ride next month. Spalding Spinners’ Kev Gray, Jason Booth and Mark Orton will be doing the fundraiser with Surrey friends Mark Tierney and Adrian Pharaoh. They start the ride on Friday, September 9, and expect to complete just over 1,000 miles in nine days – ...

A Holbeach charity shop has passed the £20,000 mark in donations to local good causes in 2016. And that means Chosen is over halfway to its fundraising target of £40,000 in 2016. And the good news is that the Fleet Street shop is looking for more beneficiaries. Joint manager and treasurer Iris Boland said: “If you have a really good ...

Sainsbury’s Spalding has announced that its new Local Charity of the Year is JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation). It follows an online and in-store vote by customers. To celebrate the announcement, a launch day will take place on Friday (August 5). Customers will get the chance to meet representatives from the charity and learn more about the work they do. JDRF raises ...

An intrepid group of South Holland fundraisers hope to have raised around £1,000 for charity after climbing Ben Nevis. The dozen climbers from Spalding, Cowbit and Donington decided to scale the 1,344-metre high mountain to raise funds for the Alzheimer’s Society for Dementia Research. The idea was started and organised by Sue Wilkerson whose mum, Mary Woods, died from the ...

Spalding United FC under-eights has been helped by Spalding and District Round Table with the purchase of two pop-up training goals. Making the hand over are (from left) Tablers Matt Cole, Ady Griggs, Matt Clark, Ben Cook, Jay Glover, chairman Matt Burchnall, Jason Parnell, Tom Bradshaw and Sam Nundy.

Seaside fun at the eighth – and best – annual Johnson Community Hospital Ball raised £5,000.   Five hundred guests were at this year’s ‘A Beach Ball’ event, raising money to directly support patients, visitors and staff at the hospital. Proceeds are to be divided between the hospital’s League of Friends and Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) Charitable Funds. The ...

Holbeach Town Band and Gedney Drove End Youth Club have both received £1,000 donations from Holbeach charity shop Chosen. Pictured at the Fleet Street shop are (from left) Chosen volunteer staff Dorothy Holdbrook, Mary Cooper and Iris Boland, Holbeach Town Band’s Mel Hopkins receiving a cheque from Patricia Burgess, and fellow staff member Christine Pritchard presenting a cheque to Christopher ...

A village bingo group has turned their monthly meetings into a fundraising initiative to help worthy causes. Organised by Phyllis Harris, the group meet every third Friday of each month at Whaplode Village Hall. And already two organisations have benefitted from the fundraising events. A cheque for £533.55 has been handed over to Moulton Health Centre to help towards buying ...

Organising a wedding fayre from scratch would faze a lot of people but not June Wright. June is working hard to bring together an event, which takes place at Ayscoughfee Hall, Spalding, on September 11 (10.30am-4pm), and all proceeds will go to Sue Ryder’s Thorpe Hall Hospice. June, of Spalding, lost her first husband David to cancer 20 years ago ...

A woman whose daughter is suffering from cancer is organising a charity event to help the hospital where she is receiving treatment. Janet Pell, of Broadgate, Weston Hills, will hold the event at her home on Saturday, October 15 (10am-4pm), to raise money for the chemotherapy suite at Boston’s Pilgrim Hospital. She said: “The chemotherapy suite always needs funding for ...

A Spalding postman has raised more than £3,200 in memory of a colleague who died from cancer. Ade Mills (48) cycled 115 miles from Great Yarmouth to Spalding to raise money for cancer charity Ride for Robbie that he set up seven years ago in memory of Robbie Coats. Ade completed the ride in seven hours 37 minutes. It took ...

An intrepid councillor is gearing up for an overnight cross-country motorcycle ride in memory of a friend who died of cancer. South Holland district councillor Jim Astill will don his leathers to take part in the Sunset2Sunrise challenge – which sees riders set off as the sun goes down to travel 256 miles. The event, from Holyhead in North Wales ...

Football pundit Chris Kamara has backed a fundraising challenge in Spalding which is part of a £1million fundraising effort. It is hoped the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society event will contribute to the target for its Hour of Need campaign, which is supporting Marie Curie. The society’s branch in Sheep Market, will be inviting customers and the public to support ...

A golf day at Hovenden Park Golf Club in Fleet raised £1,012 for the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal. The event last weekend, organised by the British Legion’s Holbeach branch, saw more than a dozen golfers play the course despite an uncertain weather forecast to compete for prizes including longest drive and most putts. Local businesses provided sponsorship and donated ...

A second set of relatives and friends of a late Spalding man are attempting a difficult fundraising challenge in his memory. Sisters Diane Sinclair and Christine Ambrose, nephew Jason Sinclair and his girlfriend Tara McNab will be chasing the rising sun this weekend. They will leave Hunstanton at 9.30pm on Saturday and cycle the 100 miles along coast roads to ...

A Spalding volunteer fundraiser is taking on the Longest Day Down Challenge in a bid to raise money for Cancer Research UK. On the longest day of the year (June 21), Dan Mills, from Gosberton, will attempt to ride from Land’s End to John O’Groats in under 24 hours without using any motorways. To make the challenge a bit more ...

Eight-year-old Joshua Hallam has raised £700 walking a lap of Cadwell Park race track to say thanks to Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance staff who helped his great nan. Dad Martyn said: “Joshua wanted to say thank you to the crew for flying his great nan from her home in Holbeach St Marks to Lincoln County Hospital in 13 minutes. ...

After the huge success of the first-ever Spalding Beer and Music Festival, organisers have turned their attention to distributing the £15,000 profit. Youth groups, clubs, organisations and schools in and around Spalding are being invited to apply for a slice of the fund. The event last month was jointly organised by Spalding and District Round Table and Spalding Ladies’ Circle, ...

Staying quiet during rugby matches is not something which comes easy to Tony Walkers. So a sponsored silence seemed a fitting challenge to fundraise in memory his brother Henry, a long-time member of Spalding Rugby Club and Spalding Town Cricket Club. Tony was in his local in Somerset and managed to bite his lip for seven hours during the back-to-back ...