Fundraising

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. ...

A charity shop in Holbeach which raised and donated more than £27,000 to local good causes last year has sets its target even higher in 2015. Chosen Charity is a phenomenal success and keeps growing – so treasurer Iris Boland wants to raise £30,000 this year. It’s a remarkable story for a shop floor measuring just 6m x 5m, with ...

Three charities have had their coffers boosted thanks to the good will of people in South Holland. A cheque for £1,700 was presented to the Lincolnshire and Nottingham Air Ambulance by Les Ward at the WI Hall in Holbeach. The money was raised through regular bingo sessions. The local branch of the Caledonian Society also made a donation to the ...

A historic shop in Spalding has been given a new lease of life by a church raising money for charities. Christian United People’s Ministries has taken on the former Butters shop in New Road, which closed in August. There are three elements to it – Quids Inn, selling charity shop items; Del Boy’s Emporium, dealing in trinkets, gold and silver; ...

Santa’s reindeer at Baytree Nurseries have been busy fundraising for charities by munching through carrots. Each year they arrive at Weston in November and visitors pay to feed them donations by Baytree’s neighbours Lincolnshire Field Products. The total before the final week was £2,789.88. Recipients were (in chronological order) The Royal British Legion (£255.57); World Challenge (£308.31); Children in Need ...

A 2015 calendar raising money for charity features winners and runners-up in the Face of Rooke’s competition, run by Spalding store Rooke’s Pet Products. The calendar costs £3.99 and has more than £20 of offers on products supplied by Rooke’s. One thousand calendars have been printed and £1 from the sale of each goes to Wood Green The Animals Shelter. ...

Dash Holiday Homes charity has presented £27,000 to Spalding PHAB (Disabled and Able Bodied) Club. PHAB chairman Andrew Inkley said: “It’s a fantastic amount which will help keep the club going, helping with outings and transport.” DASH Holiday Homes is being wound up and its funds distributed to benefit disabled people. Sense Stables at West Pinchbeck has received £20,000 and ...

Looking for something to do on Christmas Eve? Why not get yourself a ticket for the Loaded Christmas Eve Party and do your bit for charity at the same time? Tickets for The Big Night Before Christmas are available from a number of charity shops around the town and any money raised from selling the tickets is kept by the ...

  Cowbit residents are being asked to dig deep to help get the church clock working again. The clock on St Mary’s Church has stopped and the committee is facing a £10,500 bill to get it going again. Part of the cash has been donated by the local council and the church has a dedicated team working to secure funding ...

Shoppers have helped raise more than £800 for a good cause in their community. By using their dividend card at Long’s Sutton Lincolnshire Co-op food store, they have helped staff raise £847, which has been handed over to “Community Champions” from Christ Church Parish Church Council. A spokesman for the Co-op said: “I believe the church is going to be ...

Spalding Lions have presented £1,000 to a charity which aims to bring a mobile chemotherapy unit to South Holland. The cheque was presented to Rosa Woodley, head of events and community fundraising at the Hope for Tomorrow charity, which was set up after a woman lost her husband to cancer. Whilst he was having his chemotherapy they had to travel ...

Staff at Pinchbeck’s Spar raised a whopping £2,149 with a 12-hour boxathon in aid of Children in Need. Money was raised by asking shoppers to make a donation and guess the number of punches that would be thrown in total throughout the day. A spokesman for the shop said: “We found it very hard as this was the first year ...

More than 20 years of support for the Holbeach branch of Royal Air Force Association has been marked with a show of appreciation. The RAFA branch first collected at The Farm Café on the A17 at Fleet in 1992. Robert Healey, sitting on a pallet of potatoes, filled the collecting tin which Frank Sauntson (now 89) issued to him by ...

  Chosen Charity of Holbeach has smashed its target of donating £25,000 to good causes during 2014. A £2,000 presentation to Spalding PHAB (Physically Disabled and Able Bodied) on Monday (pictured) achieved the landmark. Chosen treasurer Iris Boland said: “I would like to thank all of the staff at Chosen and our customers for making this possible.”

People all over South Holland got into the Children in Need spirit last week – raising hundreds of pounds for Pudsey. Staff and children at Spalding’s Little Treasures Nursery thoroughly enjoyed dressing up as their favourite superheroes to raise cash for the charity. The children also had their faces painted with Pudsey bears and eye patches. Manager Rebecca Genever said: ...

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 ...

A £250 donation from East Elloe Lions will help to keep the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance flying. The Holbeach-based Lions invited Heather and Tom Chambers, who represent the air ambulance, to their meeting to hand over a cheque towards the helicopter’s running costs. Tom and Heather introduced the Lions to Linda Helmn, who works with them, helping with publicity ...

Colleagues sponsored a Spalding worker to shave her head to raise money for charity. Sue Sells, from Bakkavor Salads Spalding, has raised more than £2,000 by losing her long, dark locks to fundraise for breast cancer charity, Wear it Pink. Her hair was expertly removed by her son Keagan Goodwin, who works at Spalding’s Image International salon. Sue has worked ...

Andrew Clingo and his ladies at Spalding Handful of Harmonies certainly know how to raise funds for charity. On this occasion a soup and bread roll lunch followed by apple pie and cream or custard followed by the normal choir singing session and concluding with tea and cakes raised £400 for Breast Cancer and the Wear it Pink Day. This ...