Fundraising

The 4th Spalding Scout Troop can buy new camping tents, tables and lamps after a £980.50 donation by Spalding Round Table. Table’s ways and means officer Jason Parnell said: “We are proud to be able to support 4th Spalding Scout Troop and help them purchase much needed new camping equipment.” The cheque was presented to scout leader Rob Buck by ...

A woman who beat cervical cancer in just six months has raised £2,555 to say thanks for the support she received. Mandy Chillingworth was diagnosed with cancer on May 15 last year and was told she would need 12 weeks of intensive chemotherapy and radiotherapy at Peterborough City Hospital. She also had two brachytherapy operations at Addenbrookes Hospital, which failed. ...

An animal charity has had its coffers boosted by sales of a pet shop’s calendar. Rooke’s Pet Products handed over a cheque for £768 to Wood Green from the sale of its 2015 Face of Rooke’s calendar. The Face of Rooke’s competition is run annually and sees customers enter photos of their pets in a bid to win the coveted ...

A coffee morning in Holbeach raised £133 for Hovenden House, the Leonard Cheshire Disability home at Fleet. Janice Lawton organised the event at her home in The Sidings. She made cakes and more were supplied by visitors, who also bought some to take home. About 20 people popped in during the four-hour event. The fundraiser was the idea of Joe ...

Almost 40 people bent and stretched their way through a three-hour yogathon in aid of good causes. A pre-practice cuppa was followed by sessions with three yoga teachers. Carole Tovell led the warm up session, followed by Nikki Balding, who upped the pace with some dynamic vinyasa postures, and Sarah Tite, who finished the marathon with some more poses before ...

The coffers of Holbeach and East Elloe Hospital Trust have been boosted thanks to a bit of Christmas spirit. Every year Jack Turner bedecks his Fleet Road home with hundreds of Christmas lights and request those who come to see them to make a donation to the hospital. This year those donations totalled £627.

British heavyweight Tyson Fury went down a storm with guests at Spalding Round Table’s annual boxing night fundraiser. Over £10,000 was raised for local good causes – taking the total over the event’s 21 years to more than £200,000. Fury received rapturous applause by predicting in his speech that he would knock out world title rival Wladimir Klitschko inside “six ...

St John The Baptist Primary School in Spalding is hosting a fundraising quiz night on Friday, February 27 (7.30pm). The event is being organised by the Friends of the School, which works hard all year round to raise funds for the Hawthorn Bank school and to create a happier environment for the children. Tickets are £2 per person and teams ...

If you enjoyed pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, we bet you were not up until 3am preparing them. Well, 90-year-old Lorna Webb was as she turned out 250 ready for the annual coffee morning at her home in Poacher’s Gate, Pinchbeck. About £400 is heading to St Barnabas Hospice in Woolram Wygate, Spalding, as a result. And The Children’s Society is ...

A team of 17 students and teachers will be heading out to Tanzania in the summer to help out a community. The group from Spalding’s Sir John Gleed School is taking part in the World Challenge and leaves the UK for the 17-day trip on July 17. The group is a mix of boys and girls from years nine, ten ...

A Spalding residential care home is the latest to benefit from funds being distributed from the wound-up charity DASH Holiday Homes. Southfield House in Woolram Wygate has received £2,000 towards establishing further planters and troughs for residents to use. DASH trustee Angela Newton said: “They are built so that residents in wheelchairs can pull right up to them and set ...

Holbeach charity shop Chosen has made its first two donations of 2015. The local branch of The Samaritans has received £1,000. And £500 has been given for renovations at Moulton Seas End war memorial and purchase of a flagpole and flag. Chosen, in Fleet Street, donated more than £27,000 to good causes during 2014. This year the aim is £30,000. ...

A charity that supports children with cancer is £6,800 better off thanks to Sutton Bridge firm Wingland Foods. Members of the Wingland SEF presented a cheque to their chosen employee charity for 2014 – CLIC Sargent. Nightshift site manager Gary Tuttle said: “After all of the year’s various fundraising events across the site and kind donations from our employees we ...

Guests will be shaken, not stirred, at this year’s James Bond-themed annual ball in aid of Johnson Community Hospital. This year’s Thunderball event is at Springfields Events and Conference Centre in Spalding on Saturday, July 4, and will be the final one organised by Johnson Community Hospital Ball Committee. It will once again raise money to directly support patients, visitors ...

A New Year’s Eve party at Holbeach United Social Club raised £250 for the Multiple Sclerosis Society. The fundraiser included a raffle with prizes from many local businesses. The event was organised by Bob and Sharon Seymour and John and Jill Gamble. Bob said: “A good night was had by all and we raised some cash for a good cause.”

Two charities have benefited from a fashion show held at a Spalding shop. Beales Department Store in Market Place hosted the fashion show, in conjunction with Weight Watchers, back in October. The event raised £1,000 with Beales half of the money going to Macmillan Cancer Support and Weight Watchers’ half to Diabetes UK.

Pinchbeck Carnival Committee has handed over £250 to the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance in memory of one of the event’s long-time supporters. The money was presented to Jane Stacey, representing the charity, by committee member Kate Watkins on behalf of the family of Harry Camps, who had been involved in the village carnival for many years. Committee chairman Chris ...

A former Spalding Grammar School student is going to trek Machu Picchu to raise money for The Epilepsy Society. Chris Douglas has already raised £340 via a street collection in Spalding Town Centre in December. He is hoping to break through £3,000 with the trek in August, to help people with epilepsy. Epilepsy is a long-term neurological disorder that currently ...

A three-hour yogathon is being held as a fundraiser this month. SPOTS (Supportive Parents Of Tomorrow’s Stars) – a charity promoting the benefit of recreation facilities for children and families – and Agapecare Foodbank will be the beneficiaries of the event at The Umbrella in Westlode Street, Spalding, on Saturday, January 24. There will be three hours of yoga with ...

Labour’s prospective parliamentary candidate for South Holland and The Deepings is backing Cancer Research UK’s Cross Cancer Out campaign. Matthew Mahabadi (pictured) has previously fundraised for the charity in the Perkins Great Eastern Run in Peterborough. He said: “Cancer Research UK is a charity very close to my heart since the disease has sadly affected friends and family around me. ...