Fundraising

A football match between Pinchbeck United players past and present was part of a big weekend of fundraising by the club for the Callum Pite Smile Charity. The Reserves beat a Vets team 12-0, but an even bigger winner was the charity, which helps youngsters undergoing cancer treatment. Forthcoming events include a race night at Sutton Bridge Conservative Club on ...

An enterprising young Spalding boy has completed the first of two fundraising events this month for charity. Jake Winkett was the chief organiser of a fun day at St Paul’s Primary School in Spalding on Saturday. It raised £200 for Peterborough City Hospital’s Amazon children’s ward. And on Saturday, August 30, the youngster is doing a two-and-a-half hour solo sponsored ...

A Moulton Chapel cyclist has said “it felt like fate” when he discovered a charity cycling challenge fell on the anniversary of his sister’s death. Simon Williams is gearing up to tackle this year’s Ride London 100 bike ride in aid of Asthma UK – on exactly the same day as his sister died as the result of an asthma ...

A grieving wife has vowed to continue her efforts to raise awareness of a disease which claimed the life of her husband. Julie Grantham and her family have held several fundraising events for the Motor Neurone Disease Association in the past 18 months since husband Andrew was diagnosed with the condition. Andrew (50) died last week after three weeks in ...

Spalding’s Iceland store has children’s TV characters Peppa Pig and George in store on Saturday (9am-3pm). It’s part of a week of fundraising for the Royal British Legion by Iceland. The Winfrey Retail Park store has a raffle to win £50 of vouchers, tombola, cake stall on Friday and Saturday and a sponsored bike ride around Grafham Water by staff ...

A charity shop manager is gearing up for a 100-mile cycle ride to raise money to help overcome world poverty. Gary Peatling, who is manager at the Oxfam shop in Spalding will join 70 riders from the charity in the Prudential Ride London-Surrey 100. The ride will involve more than 20,000 cyclists and takes place on August 10. Volunteers in ...

The son of an Alzheimer’s sufferer is coping with the disease which has “stolen” his dad by fundraising for a charity which he hopes will help “save the next generation”. Dan Wise (42), of Whaplode says research into a cure and a better treatments will come too late for his dad Graham, but he hopes that by raising cash for ...

Staff at a village store clocked up more than £200 to support people with dementia by “cycling” 67 miles. The colleagues at the Co-op in Long Sutton took it in turns to do 15 minutes on an exercise bike as part of a 12,000 Miles for Memories challenge across Lincolnshire Co-op’s stores – one for every person living with dementia ...

Live music, karaoke and barbecue kept the crowds entertained – and fed – at a charity music day at The Black Bull pub in Holbeach. The event was held in aid of Make-A-Wish UK, a charity that fulfils the dreams of children with life-threatening illnesses. As well as music, there was also a face painter and a raffle. Performers all ...

The first-ever Spalding parade to mark Armed Forces Week received great support. Held on market day, a stall and bucket collection raised £751.21 for the charity Veterans’ Aid. The parade was led by South Holland District Council chairman Coun Robert Clark and Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire Tony Worth, and included Spalding Marching Ambassadors Band. Standards borne were Royal Lincolnshire Regiment ...

Busy teenager Rhiannon Saunders added another £121 to her fundraising tally for a school trip to Tanzania next year. The 14-year-old held a pyjama party at Pinchbeck Village Hall last Friday. About 20 people enjoyed games with prizes donated by local businesses, including the village bakery and Birchgrove Garden Centre. Rhiannon, a student at Sir John Gleed School in Spalding, ...

Events to mark the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings continue with a military-themed family event at the Anglia Motel, Fleet. A host of military and vintage vehicles will be on display at the motel on Saturday, when everyone is welcome to go along – free of charge – and come face to face with a piece of the past ...

A pair of fundraisers has had to admit defeat after injury forced them to give up plans for a charity cycle ride. Mark Le Sage and Graham Ridley had planned to take part in a “top to bottom” challenge to cycle from John O’ Groats to Land’s End on a tandem in 2012. But an accident at work left Mark ...

There was glitz and glamour galore as Spalding ball-goers strutted their stuff on the red carpet at the annual Midsummer Ball. Springfields Events Centre was packed as 575 enjoyed the BAFTA-themed ball, thanks to great entertainment and tasty food. Committee chairman Tanya Beresford said: “We had a great night and have had loads of positive feedback, some people have even ...

Colleagues at Lincolnshire Co-op are to clock up 12,000 miles – one for every person living with dementia in Lincolnshire – in a bid to raise money for Alzheimer’s Society. Miles for Memories will see staff at the Spalding Travel branch cycle the 70-mile distance from their branch to Alzheimer’s Research Facility in Cambridge on an exercise bike.

The first Holbeach charity tractor run has raised more than £1,100. The run took place on Sunday and wound its way 22.65 miles, starting and finishing at King’s Field on Hurdletree Bank. Kevin Pearsall, who organised the event along with Stephen Pearsall and Paul Beecham, said: “It was the first time we had done this and we were delighted with ...

It will still be daylight when many people in Pinchbeck are in their pyjamas on Friday (June 27). Rhiannon Saunders is holding a pyjama party at the village hall to fundraise for her Sir John Gleed School trip to Tanzania next July. Pupils will help Africans as they build schools. People of all ages will be welcome at the party (7pm-9pm). ...

Holbeach branch of the Royal British Legion has presented £6,000 in donations. The house amenities committee of the Legion’s Break Centre, Alderson House at Bridlington, and the Legion’s residential home at Halsey House in Cromer each received £2,000. Richard Hewitt, of the Alderson House committee, and Tony Goodwin, of the Halsey House committee, spoke about the remit and work of ...

More than 7,000 visitors to Long Sutton St Mary’s Church flower festival helped to raise £12,800 – ten per cent of which has been donated to the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance. Father Jonathan Sibley and churchwardens Ivor Peacock and Teresa Watts recently handed over a cheque to Faye Nam. Father Jonathan said: “We were really pleased with the support ...

The final fundraising event in the name of the Anglia Motel Veterans’ Fund was a £2,500 success. Superb weather lured thousands of people to Hunstanton over the weekend as Fleet motel owner Harold Payne’s efforts were rewarded. A large display of military vehicles on The Green was supported on Sunday with a flypast by a Dakota and 50,000 poppies dropped ...