Community

Members of Spalding Round Table and Spalding Ladies’ Circle have been visiting some of the good causes helped with profits from their first beerfest. The event in May generated more than £15,000 to be distributed to youth groups and organisations in the local community. As part of the latest donations, Spalding Gymnastic Academy received £1,175 towards mats for a London ...

Veterans with the Royal Anglian and Royal Lincolnshire Regimental Association can look forward to a fantastic Christmas meal thanks to a £3,000 donation by Holbeach charity shop Chosen. It will be at The Woodlands Hotel in Spalding in December. Chosen’s joint manager Iris Boland said: “We wish them all a very enjoyable and very well deserved meal from all at ...

A free conference in Spalding aims to bring clarity on the UK’s changing tax regime to the business community. There will be clear and concise presentations geared to helping business owners and professionals manage their tax effectively. Some of the East of England’s most prominent business leaders and professionals have been invited to take part in the event hosted by ...

Six air cadets and three staff members from Spalding 1406 squadron enjoyed a fantastic experience at RAF Brize Norton. They had a three-hour flight aboard a C-17 Globemaster III, and all the cadets had a chance to experience a take-off and a landing from within the cockpit. Plus everyone had a chance to walk out on to the rear ramp ...

A band comprising senior-aged musicians has no interest in making money – other than for charity. RetrospeKt is seven friends aged from 65 upwards based in Moulton Seas End. The band emerged after guitarist and vocalist John Heron placed a ‘wanted’ ad in shops and a magazine. He said: “I was in a band in Essex before I moved up ...

Holbeach is due to be alive with festive attractions on the first weekend in December as two Christmas events get under way. Charity fundraiser Les Ward has formed a new committee to see the return of a Christmas street parade, market and fairground on Sunday, December 4. Meanwhile, organisers of Holbeach St Nicholas Fayre, which sees stalls and entertainment in ...

by Karen Johnson – South Holland District Council community development officer Local groups and individuals have been given the opportunity to participate in events such as the successful Spalding Pumpkin Festival and recent Give it a Go! event. However, there are other ways that they can contribute to our communities by having their say on future policies and decision-making processes. ...

What can audiences at this year’s South Holland Centre panto expect? Well, a dancing dog, brilliant special effects, and eye-catching costumes and scenery for starters (plus a bad joke or two). Polka Dot Pantomimes is putting on Beauty and the Beast at the Spalding venue. It follows the big success of Peter Pan last year and Polka Dot is promising people to ...

Holbeach Beer and Music Festival has donated £7,365.20 profits to local charities and good causes. The second running of the August event was another huge hit with the public. Organiser Sean Taylor thanked Holbeach district councillors Francis Biggadike, Tracey Carter and Paul Foyster and South Holland District Council deputy leader Nick Worth for their support. He added: “We had a ...

Two former Spalding Grammar School sixth-form students will be giving a lecture at their alma mater on Friday (October 21) on their recent adventures in Ecuador. During the summer, Alistair Morgan and Andrea Williams spent time travelling through the South America country, exploring both city and jungle as part of the World Challenge experience. To take part in this requires ...

Nine months of fundraising this year by Lincolnshire Co-op staff members and customers has led to £59,201 being presented to MS Society. The donation to the the society’s charity partner would pay for 150 home adaptations, which are essential for comfort and stability, 75 adapted cars and 275 short breaks. Lincolnshire Co-op’s community engagement manager Sam Turner said: “From colleagues in our food stores teaming ...

Age UK Spalding District is asking for knitting help for an annual fundraiser. General manager Liz Walmsley said: “Every year we knit little bobble hats for the Innocent Big Knit campaign raising awareness for winter warmth. “These little hats are put onto Innocent smoothie drinks in Sainsbury’s in the winter and we get 25p for every one knitted for our charity. ...

A coffee and cake morning in support of Macmillan Cancer Support at Steadfast Training’s headquarters in High Street, Spalding, on Friday (Oct 7) raised £425.72.

Students from Ayscoughfee Hall School celebrated finishing their 11+ papers with a visit to 1498 Spice Affair restaurant in Spalding. The Year 6 pupils combined a lesson on their geography topic of India with a session making their own naan bread. Headteacher Clare Ogden said: “The children all enjoyed a delicious lunch and left understanding a lot more about Goa, ...

Community groups are being offered free access to a course designed to help them ensure they are fulfilling their responsibilities to safeguard adults form harm and abuse. The course, delivered by Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service (LCVS), is designed to empower individuals to spot possible abuse and those at risk and know what to do if they have a concern ...

An IT manager from Spalding raised the money necessary to fund a cancer support nurse for a day by running 118 miles in a month. Simon Lilley (43), of St Helena Drive, took on Out Run September for Macmillan Cancer Support as a personal challenge and to add to recent fundraising efforts. He raised £235, surpassing his original target of ...

Sneath’s Mill Trust has been presented with a £1,000 grant from the Freemasons’ Provincial Grand Lodge. Each year the 74 Masonic Lodges within Lincolnshire have the opportunity to request a grant to support one or more of their local charities – this year from a pot of £73,500. Fenland Daylight Lodge 9825 at Long Sutton put forward one request – ...

Spalding Hospice Foundation Committee held a fundraising stall at Johnson Community Hospital to support its Tulip Suite. Sales of plants, costume jewellery and bric-a-brac raised £152 to help the committee carry on its work supporting patients, their families and staff. Pauline Seymour, wife of South Holland District Council chairman Michael, donated a large number of hand knitted toys, which proved very popular. ...

A chef who was the youngest-ever person to be diagnosed with a particular form of cancer – and almost died – is ready to run a half-marathon on Sunday. And Rob Green has celebrity backing for the Perkins Great Eastern Run in Peterborough – comedian and social media star Dapper Laughs has pledged £500. Rob was just ten years old ...

Shoppers at Tesco Holbeach had the chance of getting ‘a little extra help’ last Saturday (Oct 1) in the way of having their cars washed by firefighters. Members of Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue’s Holbeach crew did a car wash in aid of the Fire Fighters’ Charity, raising £261.