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Two Spalding schools have received a boost for their breakfast clubs. The Tulip Academy’s Springview Campus and St Paul’s Primary School have both received £1,000 from Kellogg’s as part of the scheme. Breakfast clubs help with everything from attendance and attainment to alleviating hunger and providing pre-school care. Tulip Academy pupils. Claire Moore, Senior deputy headteacher at the Tulip Academy ...

A Weston Hills cattery has netted an unusual new attraction created to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s Jubilee. Owner and football fan Geoff Wright recently bought the sculpture carved by Yorkshire artist Shane Green after seeing it as part of an exhibition at a fair at Burleigh Park recently. He’s put the sculpture, which marks England’s 1966 World Cup win, up ...

A bouquet of woollen flowers will decorate a care home float in next year’s Spalding Flower Parade thanks to the generosity of a knitter. Holbeach Meadows Care Home will be taking part in next May’s event and has been donated a huge variety of blooms by Margaret Barker. “We have been touched at the kindness of people in the community ...

A host of local organisations and groups came together to talk about health and wellbeing. Gabfest, a special event held by Tonic Health, comprised of speakers from several local organisations, alongside an information marketplace. Participants included Rachel Booth, of Carers First Lincolnshire; Katy Gale, of Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service; health and wellbeing coaches from Munro and Beechfield medical centres, ...

Fleet Art and Gift Fayre is returning this month thanks to two stall holders. The event has been running at St Mary Magdelene Church for 15 years but due to the youngest volunteer being 70 and eldest being 92, discussions were held not to run it again. However Julie Turner of Pandora’s Box has teamed up with Caroline Sullivan who ...

This week’s featured person bidding to be the Ambassador for the Spalding Flower Parade is 22-year-old practice nurse Imogen Woolf. Imogen has lived in Moulton her entire life and after previously being a district nurse in Spalding now works in Market Deeping. She’s involved with groups such as Bounce Spalding, Polka Dot Dance Academy and Spalding Young Farmers’ Club. She’s ...

A Holbeach care home is offering free coffee to emergency workers. The Blue Light Coffee Stop has been set up at Holbeach Meadows on Daisy Road which itself only opened in August. Home manager Debbie Holman says staff from blue light services can call in for a coffee whenever they pass by, day or night. “We all highly value the ...

Local charities are coming together to collect goods over the next two weeks to help the district’s homeless. Ella’s Project has joined with St Barnabas Hospice shop and St Thomas Project for two weeks from Saturday. Donations of duvets, blankets, sleeping bags and warm winter coats for teenagers and adults can be left at two venues over the next fortnight. ...

Saturday, May 13, 2023 is the new date for the Spalding Flower Parade. King Charles III’s Coronation on the original date of May 5 left chief organiser Steve Timewell with little option but to move the date after he’d contacted key stakeholders. The potential for a celebration alongside the crowning had been mooted but he told a meeting of the ...

A fundraising ball has topped £40,000 in money raised for charities with its tenth outing. The Spalding and Welland branch of The Rotary Club’s Two Lips Ball returned on Friday, as 90 people enjoyed a three-course meal and the entertainment of local band Zebra at the Springfields Exhibition Centre. It’s organised by Sarah Prior, in memory of her dad George ...

A charity set up in Fleet to help those fleeing the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces is appealing for more support, including looking for businesses to sponsor lorry deliveries. Boxes Of Hope was set up by Mandy Baxter at the Anglia Motel in March and has seen enormous growth to the point it’s now a central point of the ...

The Spalding Inner Wheel’s latest International Lunch raised money for the British Red Cross’ Ukrainian Appeal. The charity’s Jayne Owens was the guest at the lunch at Cley Hall. A spokesman for the Inner Wheel said: “After lunch was served to guests, Jayne Owens, senior fundraiser for the East Midlands, gave an inspiring and enlightening presentation providing an insight into ...

A pub’s golf day saw them downing puts rather than pints recently and helped net £2,130 for charity. Regulars at The Lincoln Arms in Spalding put on the charity tournament recently at Gedney Hill Golf Club. The competition was won by Eddie Rhodes. Organiser Nigel Burrell said: “I’m overwhelmed with the support and the amount raised. “I would like to ...

Members of 2430 (Holbeach) RAF Air Cadets popped in to visit Holbeach Fire Station recently. The young people were given fire safety input from the Holbeach’s on call crew and were tasked with an initiative exercise devised by the fire crew to search an area to locate a ‘casualty’ whilst being blindfolded to simulate the real-life search firefighters would undertake ...

The chairman of South Holland District Council reached new heights in his fundraising efforts. Coun Paul Redgate is looking to raise money for the charity MIND during his year in office and is looking to do at least one event a month to raise money and awareness for the organisation. The most recent was a skydive at Sibson Airfield done ...

Plans for Remembrance Sunday in Holbeach are set to reach new heights. Fleet Hargate man Harold Payne says he’s linked up with Holbeach St John’s Flying Club to carry out an airdrop of half a million poppy petals on Sunday, November 13. The owner of The Anglia Motel held what he calls ‘The People’s Parade’ after Holbeach Parish Council held ...

The area went green for Macmillan Coffee Mornings on Friday with a number of events held to raise money for the cancer charity. They included an event at the Moulton Harrox Sports and Social Club which raised a fantastic £1,000.As well as a tombola and raffle. Carolyn Naylor said: “Over 100 people came along. The event was very successful and ...

A South Holland charity which has helped people for six decades is ready to return to the town. The Spalding branch of Mencap was badly hit when volunteer numbers for club sessions fell to just three.Wendy and David Houghton were two of them, and they have both been involved for half a century. The Gateway Club met every Friday for ...

A historic Spalding venue has some new residents thanks to the generosity of a local business. Smalley House and Garden Plants has stocked the pond in memory of the business founder Roger Smalley who died in October last year. Roger’s son Nick and his wife Sandra have donated 60 fish, including Ghost Carp and Koi to help populate the newly-refurbished ...

A woman running the London Marathon in memory of her friend who was due to take part was among the South Holland runners raising thousands for charity at Sunday’s event. Karen Pearson decided to run it after Teresa Walton, who was raising money for Breast Cancer UK after beating that condition, died in a road accident last year. Karen released ...