Community

A special cafe set up to aid mental health in Spalding is even more choc full of goodness thanks to a local company. The Night Light Cafe is run by Tonic Health from its Westlode Street premises. Aiming to avert loneliness, on Mondays and Thursday from 4pm to 7pm it provides a safe place to go and have a chat ...

Property owners can apply for grant funding to help make their properties more environmentally friendly. South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership, which South Holland District Council has been given additional funding for Green Homes Grants, though hasn’t said how much. Grants of up to £10,000 will be available to owner-occupiers with no contribution required. Grants of up to £5,000 will ...

A community project has launched its latest service serving hot meals for those that need it in Holbeach. Project St Thomas has been set up in Spalding by the Catholic community to create a community centre for the town, but one of its first actions was Hub In – Hub Out serving free meals from 12pm to 2pm on Sundays. ...

It’s just three months until Spalding Festival returns for its fifth year. The music and beerfest, held at the Castle Sports Complex, has not been staged since 2019 due to the pandemic. It’s a massive annual fundraiser by Spalding Round Table and Spalding Ladies’ Circle, which has made almost £100,000 in its first four years. And it’s ready for an ...

Spalding library’s first floor will be closed at the end of the month as part of an improvements programme. The facility will be fully closed from Monday, March 6 to Saturday, March 11 to allow work to replace the carpet. In advance of the full-week closure, customers can borrow additional items and return dates will be amended so fines aren’t ...

Spalding Lions Club recently paid thanks to all the organisations which had helped on their Christmas sleigh runs in the villages around Spalding during December. The Cley Hall Hotel hosted Lion president Michele Elvin and Lion activities chairman Stuart East, thanked and presented cheques to representatives from Spalding Flower Parade, Pinchbeck Guides, SENSE, Donington Community Fire Station (Firefighters Charity), Flinders ...

Moulton has unveiled its plans for coronation celebrations. On Saturday, May 6 it will hold a Lantern Parade. Those looking to take part should meet at Moulton Mill before the parade heads down the High Street at 7.30pm heading along to the Community Centre. After a pause for hot dogs, the procession will leave at 8.45pm and head to the ...

The RSPB is celebrating after Britain’s tallest bird bred at a South Holland Nature reserve for the third successive year. The Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust owned Willow Tree Fen, near Tongue End, has been remodelled in the last few years after a pair of cranes bred there for the first time in four centuries in the county. They birds have kept ...

A Brownie group has been given a boost by a new district councillor. South Holland councillor Steve Timewell met the Spalding 3rd Brownie group to present them with a new projector and a laminator. The Brownies needed the projector to enable them to organise movie nights and a laminator to protect all their certificates Coun Timewell donated £200 from his ...

The public have been snappy in getting their entries in to decorate the walls at vital hospital suite. The Tulip Suite at Spalding’s Johnson Hospital is set for a revamp with fundraising under way to improve all four of its palliative care rooms. One idea behind the refresh is to have a feature wall in each room showing a picture ...

The latest Spalding Gentlemen’s Society lecture on February 10 is set to get people buzzing. It’s entitled A Detectorists Utopia – Archaeology and Metal Detecting in England and Wales and will be presented by Professor Michael Lewis, Head of Portable Antiquities and Treasure at the British Museum and Visiting Professor in Archaeology at the University of Reading. He has an ...

A charity Easter event in Pinchbeck is set to return. Herring Lane Easter Egg Hunt with Julie Collins and Lisa Atkinson is back for a third year. The pair have been putting on several events recently, including hosting a grotto with Father Christmas. For Easter they are bringing back characters Naughty Norman and Rita Rabbit from April 1 to April ...

Civilian committee, staff and cadets of 2430 (Holbeach) Squadron of the RAF Air Cadets enjoyed a formal ‘Dining In’ evening at Whaplode St Catherine Memorial Hall on Saturday. The evening consisted of a three-course meal followed by entertainment. Flight Lieutenant Keith Bate RAFVR conducted the formal ceremony which was enjoyed by all. Air Cadets meet at Church Street, Holbeach on ...

Holbeach Hospital has thanked one of its longest serving members of staff. Lynne Carter is retiring after 25-years working as a carer for the Holbeach and East Elloe Hospital Trust which oversees the community hospital. She started there on November, 19 1997. A party lunch was organised by the care team and she received gifts and cards from staff.Hospital trustee, ...

A new group has been set up to help South Holland residents with cancer ‘Survive and Thrive’. It’s come after Charlotte Astley found there were few places in the district to talk about her battles. At the moment Survive and Thrive is a WhatsApp group, but will soon have their first meeting and are looking to set up a Facebook ...

A man walking the entire coastline of Great Britain to raise money for veterans strode through South Holland last week. Daniel McNeil has already raised over £11,000 for military charity SSAFA through the mammoth task of walking all 16,000 costal miles of Britain including islands. Originally from Dumfries in Scotland, the former member of the Royal Artillery began in March ...

A South Holland charity has been able to donate £3,000 to good causes so far this year. Despite being a tough year, Chosen Charity was also able to give more than £25,000 to local good causes across 2022. And William Stukeley School was among the first batch of recipients to be helped this year when a cheque for £500 was ...

South Holland charity Tonic Health has launched a new ‘Digital Den’ at its Holbeach Hub thanks to an internet provider. The idea behind the room is to create a fun and safe space for local people to enjoy state-of-the-art technology. Lightspeed Broadband has provided the equipment including the latest TVs and Virtual Reality headsets, gaming consoles, laptops, cameras and green ...

If it wasn’t for a Spalding charity, it’s possible next door neighbours Marie Baker-Dixon and Bob Elliss would have never met. But that’s what The Meadows does, helps bring people together who might otherwise be on their own. Marie (85) was brought to the area from Ashton Under Lyme two years ago by her daughter to be looked after and ...

Spalding United manager Brett Whaley is to run the London Marathon in April alongside his wife Claire. The pair are raising money for Tommy’s, a charity that provides support for parents of premature and still born babies as well as funding research into their causes. Their fundraising is inspired by the Tommy’s help after their nephew Harry Waltonwas born prematurely ...