Fundraising

Minnie Mouse, Buzz Lightyear and Spongebob Squarepants helped raise money for a good cause during a street collection in Spalding. They were lending a helping hand to Dan Wise, of Whaplode, who was collecting for Alzheimer’s Research UK. The street collection raised almost £80. Dan (42) is a big supporter of the cause and other Alzheimer’s charities as his dad ...

The South Holland Centre in Spalding is among the venues holding a Macmillan World’s Biggest Coffee Morning event on Friday (Sep 26). Pop along between 9.30am and 12.30pm, and enjoy a treat from the cake stall and try your luck in a raffle. There will also be an event at Sezanne Walk Community Centre, off Park Road, Spalding (from 10am), a Cake, ...

A successful charity shop in Holbeach has made three more large donations from its proceeds. Chosen Charity made presentations last Saturday for a total of £4,000. Pictured at the event in front of the Fleet Street shop: Right – shop manager Mary Cooper presents £2,000 to a representative of Leonard Cheshire Disability/Hovenden House at Fleet Left – treasurer Iris Boland ...

Donations made following the death of a former Spalding woman during a charity cycle ride have topped more than £21,000. Sally Preece, whose parents Terry and Judy Wing still live in Spalding, was killed on the seventh day of the Ride Across Britain event – a nine-day charity ride from Land’s End to John O Groats. She was cycling as ...

A successful charity shop in Holbeach has made three more large donations from its proceeds. Chosen Charity made presentations last Saturday for a total of £4,000. Pictured at the event in front of the Fleet Street shop: right – shop manager Mary Cooper presents £2,000 to a representative of Leonard Cheshire Disability/Hovenden House at Fleet left – treasurer Iris Boland ...

Spalding Round Table has presented £1,000 to Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance. The cash came from some of the funds raised by the Round Table’s annual charity boxing event held at Springfields Events Centre. Ways and means officer Jason Parnell said the air ambulance was selected as a worthy cause due to the frequency of support it provides to Spalding, ...

Live music, stalls, games and a Dakota flypast combined to make Holbeach Hospital’s annual summer fair a great success. The theme for the event was country and western, with live music and several members of staff dressing up as cowboys and Indians. Other attractions on the day included a red bus that has been turned into a mobile fish and ...

A Spalding postman is pedalling his way 120 miles to Norfolk and back in memory of a colleague who died from cancer. Ade Mills will take on the cycling challenge on Sunday to raise money for the cancer ward at Boston’s Pilgrim Hospital. He will be joined along the way by Malcolm Smith, Steve Allison and Tony Quinton. The ride ...

The fairies and staff at Sainsbury’s Spalding have been out in force again trying to beat the amazing £1,032 raised at the store last month for charity Anna’s Hope. At this month’s Fairy Friday staff member Vanessa Pardy took part in a sponsored head shave. The charity helps to make a difference to local children suffering with brain tumours.

Firefighters from Spalding’s station will swapping their fire hoses for garden hoses on Sunday when they’ll be washing cars for charity. The crew will be at Sainsbury’s car park from 10am to 4pm raising money for the Fire Fighters Charity. They will also be handing out fire safety information. Be warned no cash is not an excuse as the team ...

Vintage Hollywood is the theme at this year’s annual Kidney Research Charity Ball in Spalding. It will be the fifth ball organised by committee members Hannah Robinson, Natalie Herring and Richard Spurr. The trio have raised more than £25,000 for Kidney Research UK, which undertakes research for kidney patients, like Hannah and Natalie’s mother Pauline. Pauline was born with a ...

Former Liverpool and England player Neil Ruddock is in South Holland next month for the latest sports celebrity dinner arranged by Spalding United. The central defender, known as “Razor”, will be the special guest at Spalding’s South Holland Centre on September 11. As well as a talk from Ruddock, who also played for Tottenham Hotspur and Southampton, there will be a ...

A group of elite cyclists from local packaging company Coveris spent the weekend completing a gruelling 460-mile cycle challenge in memory of former colleague, Steve Callaway – and helped to raise £15,000. Steve lost his battle with cancer in November and Coveris, formerly Paragon Print and Packaging, set up the Steve Callaway Challenge to raise funds for his chosen charity, ...

A fundraising drive this year by a Spalding mum has raised more than £3,500 for Cancer Research UK. Liz Batterham, who added £387 proceeds from a garden party at Aycoughfee Gardens in Spalding last Saturday, still has four more events to go in 2014. The inspiration for the fundraising came from the loss of her aunt, Tina Bryan, to cancer ...

A father and daughter’s charity bike ride from Holbeach to Crawley was fine – in terms of both the physical challenge and the weather. Steve and Dayna Kingshott pedalled from home in Stukeley Road to Crawley fire station over last Saturday and Sunday. The pair hope to have raised about £800 for The Fire Fighters’ Charity and Boston and South ...

A young mum who lost her aunt to cancer last year at the age of 50 has organised a charity garden party in Spalding this weekend. Tina Bryan died last October and Saturday’s event at Ayscoughfee Gardens is the latest fundraiser for Cancer Research UK by niece Liz Batterham (33). Liz, who has raised more than £3,000 this year, said: ...

Kind-hearted councillors have clubbed together to provide new play equipment for a Spalding school. The Garth School, a special school with 45 pupils aged between two and 19 from across South Holland, will benefit from the generous donation which includes scooters, tricycles, wheelbarrows and buggies. Twenty councillors contributed a total of £2,370 from their own budgets and the equipment will ...

Chosen Charity of Holbeach has made presentations to three local beneficiaries. The charity shop in Fleet Street has donated some of its proceeds to: £500 to Whaplode Primary School swimming pool committee £500 to Holbeach and District Youth Centre £500 to Home Start. Treasurer Iris Boland said: “Chosen Charity donated over £19,000 to local causes in 2013. Our target for ...

A daunting 150-mile bike ride for charity is drawing near for a Holbeach father and daughter. Steve and Dayna Kingshott are planning to pedal from Holbeach fire station to Crawley fire station on Saturday, August 23, to raise money for two charities close to their heart. Steve – a retained firefighter at Holbeach – is fundraising for The Fire Fighters’ ...

‘Selfie’ photos of kids with Peppa Pig and George helped Spalding’s Iceland store towards its £1,000 fundraising target for Royal British Legion. Children loved having their picture taken on mobiles with the TV characters (costing a grown-up £1). It was part of fun at the Winfrey Retail Park on Saturday which raised £310. A raffle, tombola, cake stall and name ...