Clubs and Groups

Next year’s Spalding Festival is promising ‘A Little Bit’ more with chart topping band Liberty X the first headliner to be confirmed. The band currently containing Michelle Heaton, Jessica Taylor and Kelli Young will top the bill at the Spalding and District Round Table and Spalding Spalding Ladies Circle event.Formed from contestants on reality show Popstars, the band are known ...

The Rotary Club of Spalding is to return to its traditional name, something it’s celebrating this weekend. It’s name was chosen back in 1937, but in recent years it had ‘The Welland’ tagged on the end after merging with the previous club of that name.Now members have voted to ditch that suffix and go back to the original name of ...

Boston Musical Theatre Group (BOS) returns to the Blackfriars stage with a brand new production. The story of Big Fish will be familiar to anyone who has read the 1998 novel by Danny Wallace, or seen the 2003 film starring Ewan McGregor and Danny Devito.The musical version had a successful run on Broadway, followed by its West End premiere in ...

Act II Theatre Company are bringing the Disney version of The Little Mermaid to life this week. Both a senior and a junior cast are putting on shows at the South Holland Centre.The first show with the junior class was last night (Wednesday) at 7.30pm with another performance from them on Friday at the same time.The senior cast’s first production ...

Holbeach Brownies recently held a meeting at a care home. Residents at Holbeach Meadows were keen to spend the evening supporting the Brownies to achieve their painting badge.Home manager Gemma Woodcock said: “We used a variety of media, including canvasses and pastels, but the favourite was poster paint and fingers – the Brownies led the way and the residents were ...

Gosberton Youth Hub has officially opened its doors. Tom and Ann Mehew of the organising committee cut the ribbon on the rejuvenated project.Friday nights see the Junior Youth Hub run from 5pm to 6.45pm and sessions for older children from 7pm to 9pm.There’s a nightly sub of £1.A spokesman said: “What an amazing launch we had.“We registered 80 amazing young ...

Two members of Pinchbeck Girlguiding have been given the highest award possible. Amber Coleman (7) has been given the gold Rainbow award, the first from the group to receive it.And Laycie-Ann Creek is also the first Brownie from her unit to achieve the gold Brownie award.Leader Amy Coleman said: “They have gone above and beyond to achieve their highest awards ...

The Spalding branch of the Inner Wheel Club has celebrated its 70th and the organisation’s 100th anniversaries. The international women’s group was initially formed by the wives of Rotarians in Manchester in 1923, with the Spalding branch forming just over 30 years later.To mark both milestones, members invited others from the club to join them at Spalding Golf Club for ...

A pantomime at Easter? Oh yes it is! St Nicholas Players are bringing an eggcellent treat to the South Holland Centre from Wednesday, March 27 to Saturday March 30. They’re putting on the Easter pantomime Mother Goose as written by Kei Bailey.It’s promising fun for all ages as well as the usual panto fun.A spokesman for the South Holland Centre ...

A local jazz legend will be talking to Sutton Bridge U3A. Musician, broadcaster, writer and historian, John Petters presents an introduction to the great jazz vocalists at the Curlew Centre on Bridge Road on Tuesday, April at 2pm.A professional bandleader since the ‘80s, John was known as ‘Britain’s ace drumming man’.He has worked and recorded with a host of names ...

A group that aims to bring men together and talking about their health had a special visitor last week. Bro Pro, set up by the Tonic Health charity at its Spalding base, invited Michael Heppell, an advanced clinical practitioner from Beechfield Medical Centre, to its meeting.They discussed a variety of male-specific health matters such as prostate problems, and also other ...

The final lecture of the series courtesy of Spalding Gentlemen’s Society is set to be a silky affair. It’s been a fantastic few weeks of talks by expert at the Broad Street Methodist Church with more than 100 having attended each one.The current run closes this Friday (March 22) with a talk entitled Unravelling The Silk Road by Chris Aslan ...

There’s set to be a right royal load of laughs at the South Holland Centre on Saturday (March 16). Local theatre group Act II is putting on a special one-off sketch show entitled The Totally Brilliant and Completely Accurate History of the Monarchy (Sort Of).Written by the group’s very own Karl Gernert it’s set to be educational and funny in ...

Those talented folk at Act II Theatre Company are back next week with a black comedy in two parts. The local youth group are putting on Alan Ayckbourn’s black comedy The Revenegers’ Comedies on both Tuesday, February 13 and Wednesday, February 14 at the South Holland Centre.A spokesman for Act II said: “Fate throws together the eccentric Karen Knightly and ...

What do Suella Braverman, Vladimir Putin, South Holland District Council and Mickey Mouse all have in common? They all feature in Act II Theatre Company’s Revue 2023! This irreverent, topical and cheeky show is now into its 11th year and once again takes a swipe at the year’s news; local, national and global.Expect fast-paced sketches, scenes and songs from the ...

A former ranger at a National Trust nature reserve in Norfolk will be putting on the South Holland branch of the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust’s monthly talk next week. Ajay Tegala will be delivering a presentation entitled The Unique Life of a Ranger on Blakeney Point at Pinchbeck Village Hall on Tuesday (November 14) running from 7.30pm to 9.30pm. Coming up ...

The Girls and Boys Brigades in Spalding have celebrated the organisation’s 90th birthday. The 1st Spalding Girls Brigade and 3rd Spalding Boys Brigade held a joint celebration on Sunday October 15 where past members were invited to join a special service at the Spalding United Reformed Church.It was followed by a buffet lunch.Leaders and members took part in the service, ...

A local entrepreneur and inventor was the guest speaker at the Sutton Bridge U3A, which includes members from Long Sutton. Sandra McDonough suffered with Parkinson’s but she found tying a knitting needle to her glasses provided some control over her body.At the age of 60, 20-years after her diagnosis, she decided to create the Eye Guide and founded a company ...

The next lecture in the SGS Winter programme will be presented by Dr Bas Boots, who is a senior lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University. The subject is Soil and Dr Boots will talk about his exploration into the links between ecosystem functioning and microbes in a wide variety of habitats is interdisciplinary: merging ecology, microbiology, environmental science and biochemistry.Spalding Gentlemen’s ...

The Spalding and District Young Farmers are putting on their annual Tractor Working Day this Sunday. It takes place at Fold Lane, Moulton with sign in from 9.30am and the ploughing action from 10am.Entry for the main competitions is 10am.There will be a barbecue and drinks all day along with competitions to enter.A spokesman said: “All are welcome to come ...