Charity closes doors for good

A scheme set up around the time of the pandemic has closed for good.

Members of The Spalding and Pinchbeck Good Neighbour scheme have decided to wind-up the charity.
A recent annual meeting was told a lack of volunteers and service-users meant the scheme could close.
It had helped members of the community who needed support ranging from chores to posting letters and advice.
The organisation was formally created in 2021 to carry on work of the Spalding Covid-19 Kindness initiative and members met in the community room at Morrison’s in recent times.
The late Coun Angela Newton (pictured right) had chaired the group and was behind a lot of its momentum.
Tim Barzycki, secretary, said her loss had been keenly felt within the group when she died at the end of last August.
The group had helped around 50 people at its peak, but the numbers of both the volunteers and service-users has dwindled in recent times.
The assets belonging to the group will be split between Welland Seniors’ Forum, Spalding Community Choir, The Meadows Day Centre and the Ever Young Club, based at Polka Dot Academy.
The Good Neighbour Scheme website has a comprehensive list of help available from other organisations to enable people to self-refer.
Mr Barzycki said it was a testament to the amount of help on offer that the group had become largely redundant.
“We always offered details of other groups and charities and were never seen as a long-term thing,” he said.
A full list of organisations in the area offering help across a wide range of issues can be found at the website www.spaldinggns.co.uk