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Holbeach Air Cadets took on challenges set by the town’s firefighters recently. The 2430 (Holbeach) Squadron of the RAF Air Cadets visited the fire station on Wednesday, April 20. During the evening they learned how Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue mobilise to incidents. They were given fire safety advice and shown equipment available on front line fire appliances. Holbeach Fire Crew ...

A Spalding-based accountant was feeling on top of the world after making the climb to Everest base camp in memory of her dad. Kirsty Holmes has raised more than £1,600 for Cruse Bereavement Care through the 5,364m high climb up the world’s tallest mountain. The paraplanner at MT Financial Management faced six to nine-hour walks each day in temperatures that ...

A Spalding Voice journalist is taking part in her first – and last – 10k run at the weekend. Donna Semmens (54) has been training for the GEAR 10k which is held in King’s Lynn on Sunday. “I thought it was a good idea, but this is only going to happen the once. I’m not doing it again,” she said. ...

It’s been a busy week for Long Sutton’s Men Shed whose members were presented with books as part of Read a Book Night ahead of the launch of their new Youth Shed initiative. Began three-years-ago after chair Ray Cutbill saw the initiative in Australia, the group now has around 85 members and is thought to be the largest in Europe. ...

President of Spalding’s UK Parkinson’s branch, Sir John Hayes, has demonstrated his ongoing support this World Parkinson’s Day. Attending a parliamentary session to hear from some of the 145,000 people affected by the condition in the UK, Sir John said: “It was incredibly powerful to hear the personal stories of people living with Parkinson’s. The complexity of this condition, the ...

Christians gathered in Holbeach for the Walk of Witness on Good Friday. Starting at the town’s Roman Catholic Church, the procession went through the High Street before ending at All Saints’ Church. Members stopped along the way for readings and to sing hymns. The procession ended with a simple lunch to raise money for the Lent charity helping Ukraine. This ...

A Spalding man is walking 1,000 miles in 100 days to raise money for charity in his second fundraising event in six months. Nigel Wickenden, of Smithdale Close, starts his sponsored walk in aid of the Army Benevolent Fund – The Soldiers’ Charity today (Thursday). Back in October he took part in The Frontline Walk – a 100km trek to ...

Around 200 children took part in an Easter duck hunt around Holbeach on Saturday. Organised by Holbeach Parish Council, the free event saw youngsters collect entry forms from councillors at the churchyard before setting off in search of pictures of ducks around Carter’s Park, the High Street and the churchyard. Each duck had a letter on it and the children ...

Families enjoyed the long Easter weekend and the beautiful weather by taking part in the Springfields Easter Egg Hunt. The hunt, which ran from April 1 to 18 at the Spalding venue, was hugely popular with some of the days fully booked. Children were given an activity pack which included the Easter Egg Hunt clues and had to follow the ...

An annual memorial to a World War Two air crash that killed six people took place last Saturday attended by relatives of those who died and a Donington man who witnessed it. April 10 marked the 78th anniversary of the incident that killed the crew of Lancaster ND820 635 Squadron which crashed on a training flight from RAF Downham Market ...

A local football manager is putting on a special game this week in memory of his mum who he is also to run this year’s London Marathon for. Bobby Patterson, the co-manager of Moulton Harrox, is working with another of his former sides, Holbeach United, to raise even more money for The British Heart Foundation. Margaret Patterson died suddenly aged ...

A club to help older people in Crowland enjoyed a tasty start to its 70th birthday celebrations with a present from a local councillor. The Crowland Over 60s club was treated to a special afternoon tea by South Holland district councillor Jim Astill. It holds events every Friday afternoon at Trinity Court in the town as a place for the ...

A fitness instructor is to hold a two-hour charity exercise session helping animals in Ukraine. Helen Lea, who lives in Whaplode Drove, is looking to raise money for Animals of Ukraine at the event at the WI Hall on Park Road in Holbeach from 2pm on Saturday, May 14. She says she’s already raised over £11,000 for a number of ...

Moulton has been given a spring clean by a group of volunteers. Residents from Moulton, Moulton Seas End and Moulton Chapel turned out to support a The Big Spring Clean-up which was organised by the parish council on Saturday, April 2. Moulton Parish Council chair Coun Andrew Woolf said: “This was the first litter pick of the year. It was ...

It’s a cafe with a difference and it’s making a big one to people’s mental health in Spalding. The Night Light Cafe is a brilliant collection of individuals, all with their own inspiring stories who are helping each other. It’s bring run by Tonic Health from their Westlode Street base from 4pm to 7pm on Mondays and Thursdays with the ...

Spalding-based charity Ella’s Project and the town’s NatWest bank have made Easter special for families in the area. The two joined forces to gather together more than 150 Easter eggs which have been donated by kind-hearted staff and customers at the bank. The eggs will be delivered to families in crisis across South Holland ahead of Easter and both organisations ...

Volunteers from across Holbeach were treated to a special event at the weekend to say thank-you for all their hard work. Councillors Tracey Carter and Nick Worth funded the tea at the town’s WI Hall where there was plenty of cake for representatives from a number of groups in Holbeach, including Chosen, the foodbank, Little Miracles, the library, Holbeach Hospital ...

A South Holland development company has made £1,000 donation to a charity helping the people of Ukraine. Ashwood Homes handed over a range of items last week, including a fridge, chairs, pens, work gloves and hi-viz clothing. The donation was given to the Boxes of Hope charity which has set up collection points including the Anglia Motel in Fleet Hargate. ...

There was double the smiles as a photographic exhibition focusing on Spalding people launched at a town museum. The Portrait Promenade exhibition at the Spalding Gentlmen’s Society was the culmination of two Arts Council grants. South Holland District Council and Transported Arts put on Super Saturdays events in Spalding town centre and photographer Steve Hatton, of Electric Egg, created 30 ...

Staff and pupils at The Priory School have been able to collect six boxes of goods to donate to Ukrainian refugees. The school presented what it was able to round up to Ella’s Project on behalf of the St Norbert’s Ukrainian Appeal, which helped deliver a host of goods to the Red Cross through the Boxes of Hope appeal set ...