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Arts Council England is looking for more applications for Grants for the Arts funding from South Holland. Grants for the Arts is an open access funding programme for artists, individuals, art organisations, local authorities and others who use the arts in their work. Awards range from £1,000 to £100,000 and support a wide variety of arts-related activities, from dance to ...

An Elsoms Seeds trial site in Pinchbeck has been chosen by The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board for its Winter Wheat Variety demonstration next week. Adrian Hayler, agricultural division manager at Elsoms Seeds, said: “This is the first time this event has been held in South Lincs and Elsoms are delighted that their trial site has been chosen as the ...

by Karen Johnson Community development officer at South Holland District Council We are currently working on an exciting new initiative aimed at turning impressive ideas into reality. The district is the latest community to get involved in the Global Soup movement which organises live crowd funded events. South Holland Soup will see people coming together to pitch ideas for improving ...

Spalding Amateur Dramatic and Operatic Society (SADOS) is looking for one more person to perform in its next production. Rehearsals for its next production The Games Afoot by Ken Ludwig – a murder mystery farce set in 1936 America – start next week. SADOS is looking for a male to play the part of Simon Bright (Zerlinsky). He is a man in his mid-20’s, sweet ...

Girlguiding Spalding District has a new badge courtesy of their own design competition. The competition was organised for the Rainbows, Brownies and Guides and two winners were selected. One was six-year-old Veronika Prots from 5th Spalding Rainbows with ten-year-old Molly Hallissey the other from 5th Spalding Brownies. The design used for the badge was taken from the drawing that Molly ...

Fleet businessman Harold Payne has heaped praise and gratitude upon the many supporters who have backed his cause over the past 25 years. Mr Payne has raised close to £750,000 towards helping veterans make annual trips to the battlefields and war cemeteries in France and Belgium. And, after organising the 25th annual trip this year, he insisted none of it ...

Surfleet mum-of-two Sophie Bailey is hoping to raise awareness for the Little Princess Trust after losing her locks for charity. The 23-year-old from Cheal Road decided to help the charity – who provide real hair wigs to children who have lost their own hair through illness – after concerns during her second pregnancy. And she now wants more residents and ...

Organising a wedding fayre from scratch would faze a lot of people but not June Wright. June is working hard to bring together an event, which takes place at Ayscoughfee Hall, Spalding, on September 11 (10.30am-4pm), and all proceeds will go to Sue Ryder’s Thorpe Hall Hospice. June, of Spalding, lost her first husband David to cancer 20 years ago ...

Shoe retailer Brantano is helping to ensure no-one faces cancer alone after launching a partnership with a cancer care charity. The footwear chain has chosen Macmillan Cancer Support as its charity for the year, and has a host of fundraising events and initiatives lined up. Brantano is calling for South Holland residents to help support its first event – Go ...

A woman whose daughter is suffering from cancer is organising a charity event to help the hospital where she is receiving treatment. Janet Pell, of Broadgate, Weston Hills, will hold the event at her home on Saturday, October 15 (10am-4pm), to raise money for the chemotherapy suite at Boston’s Pilgrim Hospital. She said: “The chemotherapy suite always needs funding for ...

It’s never a bad thing to get out of your comfort zone, but when A Handful of Harmonies was invited to perform with Blake they were quite daunted when the song list was received. It was the choir’s first venture into light classical music and opera, but according to music director, Andrew Clingo, they excelled themselves yet again. Twenty-one members ...

A Spalding postman has raised more than £3,200 in memory of a colleague who died from cancer. Ade Mills (48) cycled 115 miles from Great Yarmouth to Spalding to raise money for cancer charity Ride for Robbie that he set up seven years ago in memory of Robbie Coats. Ade completed the ride in seven hours 37 minutes. It took ...

An intrepid councillor is gearing up for an overnight cross-country motorcycle ride in memory of a friend who died of cancer. South Holland district councillor Jim Astill will don his leathers to take part in the Sunset2Sunrise challenge – which sees riders set off as the sun goes down to travel 256 miles. The event, from Holyhead in North Wales ...

Crafty staff at Spalding Library have scooped a national competition for their artistic display of this year’s Man Booker Prize shortlisted titles. The Reading Agency supports the annual competition – providing free materials on which librarians can let loose their creative flair. The idea is that the imaginative displays stop customers in their tracks and encourage them to find their ...

Winners of this year’s Pride of South Holland Awards will be crowned on Saturday. It is the second year of the awards run by the Spalding and South Holland Voice and Tulip Radio and the standard of entries has been phenomenally high. We have been looking for those people across South Holland who go the extra mile to make their ...

A student’s piece of 3D art which can be enjoyed by visually impaired people has gone up at nature reserve. Thomas Beardwell completed the piece, which shows an aquatic scene with molded three-dimensional creatures, for an Extended Project Qualification as part of his studies at Spalding Grammar School. He worked closely with John Oliver, warden at Spalding’s Willow Tree Fen, ...

A Crowland flying club is offering one lucky student the chance to learn to fly for free as part of a college scholarship programme. Peterborough Regional College has joined forces with Peterborough and Spalding Gliding Club, based at Crowland Airfield, to invite people to apply for an intensive course of flying instruction during the summer break, which will culminate in ...

Football pundit Chris Kamara has backed a fundraising challenge in Spalding which is part of a £1million fundraising effort. It is hoped the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society event will contribute to the target for its Hour of Need campaign, which is supporting Marie Curie. The society’s branch in Sheep Market, will be inviting customers and the public to support ...

A golf day at Hovenden Park Golf Club in Fleet raised £1,012 for the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal. The event last weekend, organised by the British Legion’s Holbeach branch, saw more than a dozen golfers play the course despite an uncertain weather forecast to compete for prizes including longest drive and most putts. Local businesses provided sponsorship and donated ...

A second set of relatives and friends of a late Spalding man are attempting a difficult fundraising challenge in his memory. Sisters Diane Sinclair and Christine Ambrose, nephew Jason Sinclair and his girlfriend Tara McNab will be chasing the rising sun this weekend. They will leave Hunstanton at 9.30pm on Saturday and cycle the 100 miles along coast roads to ...