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Our September issue is OUT NOW!
What’s inside this month:
🎓 School Open Days
🍕 Eating Out Guide
💉 Discover the world of Aesthetic enhancements
🏡 Focus on Holbeach
♻ Comprehensive guide to upcycling
and much more!
Have a sneak peek…https://bit.ly/4dDOyni
Specifically within the area of Pennygate, Brown's Gate, Woolram Wygate and surrounding areas of Spalding we have had reports of persons trying door handles of homes and cars. This is reminder to lock doors, keep valuables out of cars and report any suspicious behaviour via 101 or 999 if relevant. If anyone has any CCTV footage from 26th August 2024 after 23:00hrs of suspicious activity in these areas please report these to [email protected].
Looking for something that will keep your little ones occupied tomorrow? This looks like a lovely event at Vine House Farm Shop & Cafe. 📖🐝🍦
Not long to go now until Holbeach Food Festival. We're really looking forward to this, it should be a great event for all the family! 🌭🍕🍰🍨
We have just been chatting in the office about icons of Spalding and land marks.
Who remembers the sugar beet factory demolition? And maybe a sugar beet party 😜
⚽️ This is a wonderful event where you can try out a new sport or activity for FREE, meet with local sports clubs and see what is on offer in the district! 🎯
Happening this Saturday in Carter's Park, Holbeach!!! FREE activity taster day for all the family to enjoy!!!
Some of the activities include:
⛳️Crazy golf
🧗♀️Mobile climbing wall
🏐Aeroball
🏹Archery
🏑Hockey
🥁Learn to play an instrument
🎨Face painting and balloon modelling
☀️Summer themed arts and crafts
And the list goes on!!!...
Meet Tim! South Holland District Council's new Handyperson 🙋🏻♂️
If you are a sheltered housing resident in need of home 🏡maintenance assistant Tim is the right person for you... our new handyperson service provides reliable and professional home maintenance services exclusively for sheltered housing residents with the materials you provide
The jobs our handy person covers involve:
💡Changing light bulbs
🔨Putting shelves up
🏡One-off grass cutting
🔑Key safe fitting
🛠Grab rails
To book handy person assistance, please 📞 01775 764888 or 📧[email protected]
Calling all local businesses....do you have news you would like to share with local residents?
In Simply Spalding and Simply Boston we run a Business News section and it is FREE of charge to be included. It could be that you have new equipment, a new staff member, one of your team has done something for charity or you are moving premises.
Anything you wish to shout about that is news related please let us know!
Please email [email protected] with approx 250 words and 2/3 pictures
The new issue of Simply Spalding magazine is available now!
A sneak peek at our August edition:
🏠 Tips and advice when looking for a new home
🎓 Options available to your family when it comes to private education
💂♀ Top tips for a weekend in London with children
👁 The importance of eyecare in under 16s
🚣 Overview of the upcoming Deeping Raft Race
➕ much more!
FREE Music Festival this Saturday at Ayscoughfee Hall Museum & Gardens complete with vintage fairground rides, face painting, garden games and festival inspired menus at the cafe! 🎶🎤🎹
URGENT SIGHTINGS OF STOLEN DOG CALLED FOR BY JERRY GREEN DOG RESCUE
Jerry Green Dog Rescue is urgently seeking information regarding a stolen dog, Tilly. Whilst in foster care, Tilly was in a car which was stolen last night (Wednesday 10th July). The incident occurred at approximately 5pm in the car park of the Ortongate Shopping Centre in Peterborough, PE2 5TD. The stolen vehicle is a grey Volkswagen Golf, 60 plate.
Tilly is a small, black, wire-haired Terrier and is microchipped to Jerry Green Dog Rescue. She is 8 years old and was last seen wearing a collar with a green Jerry Green Dog Rescue identification tag.
The organisation is deeply concerned for Tilly’s safety and is appealing to the public for any information or sightings that may aid in finding her.
Anyone with information or sightings of Tilly is urged to contact Jerry Green Dog Rescue immediately. Reports can be made via phone call, text, or WhatsApp to 07824 046242, or via email at [email protected].
Additionally, for anyone who may have witnessed the theft or has information that could assist the police investigation, they are asked to contact Cambridgeshire Police on the non-urgent police number, 101.
Crime number: 35-49924-24
Incident number: CC100720240532
Jerry Green Dog Rescue appeals to the public to share this information widely to help bring Tilly back home safely.
For media enquiries or to schedule an interview please contact the Jerry Green Dog Rescue’s CEO, Christina Marriott, on 07570 663174 or the marketing department at [email protected]
Don't forget it's Father's Day on Sunday! Check out these brilliant gift ideas from Baytree Garden Centre 👇👇
There is lots going on at Vine House Farm Shop & Cafe next week. Plenty to keep your little ones entertained during the half term break! Fingers crossed for good weather 🤞☀️🦅
🌷 A huge well done to all involved in the Flower Parade. What a wonderful event for the town. If you went along and managed to get some good photos, we would love to be able to use them in a feature we are putting together for the magazine.🌷
Please email them over to [email protected] 📷
Who was out late last night and managed to see the amazing Aurora Borealis? Please share your images below
FREE Outdoor Yoga - don't miss out! 🧘♀️🧘♀️
The theme for this year's is `Movement: moving more for our mental health`. In collaboration with Adults Move Lincolnshire we are offering a FREE outdoor yoga session in the beautiful William Stukeley grounds led by the wonderful Bekki.
Breathe in the fresh air, relax your body and mind and join us for this one off session 🧘♀️
Booking is essential! To book your place, click the Eventbrite link ➡️ https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/outdoor-yoga-tickets-887524418427
⚽️ FREE entry for everyone this Saturday ⚽️
If Spalding win this game they are champions and get promoted! 🌷🌷Up the Tulips🌷🌷
SPALDING UNITED v COLESHILL TOWN
https://www.spaldingunited.net/news/spalding-united-v-coleshill-town-2847009.html
📢 Classic Car & Bike Meet tomorrow at Birchgrove Garden Centre from 9am - FREE Admission! 🏍🚗
🚗🏍️ Join Us for Birchgrove Garden Centre's first Classic Car and Bike Meet of the year. 🏍️🚗
Mark your calendars for this Sunday, April 21, from 9am onwards. Whether you're a classic car enthusiast or simply love a good bike ride, this event is for you!
🎉 Open to Everyone! 🎉
🆓 Admission: Absolutely FREE! Donations are welcome and will be supporting a great cause this year – Waddles Rescue, based in Holbeach. They focus on bird rescue and rehabilitation, making a difference one bird at a time.
Enjoy a morning surrounded by classic cars, bikes, and fellow enthusiasts, all while supporting a wonderful cause. Bring your friends and family for a fun-filled day out!
Happy Easter from the Simply Spalding team! From all of us here, we hope you have an egg-ceptional Easter break 🌼🐰
✨New Issue – Available Now!✨
This month is a jam packed edition, including everything from advice for parents who are about to move house to a handy guide for anyone thinking of building an extension or converting a garage.
In our travel section, we discover what it’s like to visit the Alps in the summer months and the huge range of activities on offer. While our Business and Finance pages focus on the great advantages of using cashback sites, along with helpful guidance if you are thinking of starting your own business and what things you need to consider before taking the plunge.
You will also find our regular round-up of local school and business news, health and beauty advice, delicious recipe ideas and much more!
No plans for the Easter weekend? There's lots of family-friendly events happening in Spalding if you are looking for something to do that will keep your little ones entertained. 🐰🥕🌼
Calling all local businesses....do you have news you would like to share with local residents?
In Simply Spalding and Simply Boston we run a Business News section and it is FREE of charge to be included. It could be that you have new equipment, a new staff member, one of your team has done something for charity or you are moving premises.
Anything you wish to shout about that is news related please let us know!
Please email [email protected] with approx 250 words and 2/3 pictures x
Walk…Don’t Run!
Have you missed picking up the latest issue of Simply Spalding? We have just restocked in the supermarkets, grab a copy when you’re next in store at Morrisons, Sainsbury’s or Tesco.
Sending love to you all, no matter what your situation is this Mother's Day! 💜
Pylons submission to National Grid
A powerful response on behalf of its thousands of supporters has been submitted on Wednesday, March 6 by No Pylons Lincolnshire to National Grid’s Grimsby to Walpole Great Grid Upgrade consultation.
It calls National Grid to account on a number of important issues and forcefully makes the point that it absolutely opposes the pylon proposals.
It firstly challenges the consultation process itself and claims the proposals show no understanding of the significant adverse impacts pylons would have on the landscape, environment, heritage, businesses or quality of life of the communities affected.
The official No Pylons Lincolnshire response says the presentation of costings and the consideration of alternative approaches, as presented by National Grid, are based on an excessively narrow definition of value for money, do not follow Treasury Green Book guidelines and ignore all costs other than the capital cost of the proposed works.
“This masks the true full economic costs of the alternative approaches and favours the most intrusive and least appropriate option,” says the response.
“The proposals subject to this consultation are flawed. They ignore the importance of Lincolnshire’s agricultural economy to the food security of the United Kingdom,” it continues.
Lincolnshire produces an eighth of all England’s food, 30 per cent of its fresh produce and 18 per cent of its poultry. Food security is one of the Government’s key priorities, as acknowledged by the Prime Minister. There has been no account taken of the impact of these proposals on farming or food security.
It claims the pylons plan would saddle the county with the cheapest possible infrastructure for the next 50 years.
“We accept the need for additional electricity transmission infrastructure and we support the decarbonisation of electricity generation. But there are alternative approaches which would offer better value for money.”
It is clear from National Grid’s own consultation material that the decision to proceed with the project has already been made, and alternative options such as underground or undersea routes or upgrading existing infrastructure have been discounted.
The current consultation exercise appears to be little more than an administrative fig leaf designed to make a pre-determined outcome appear slightly less offensive.
National Grid’s preferred option appears to have been determined on solely financial grounds.
These deficiencies render the current exercise an insufficient basis on which to enable National Grid properly to conduct the next, statutory, stage of consultation.
The open vistas of the Lincolnshire landscape offer no relief from an 87-mile line of a minimum of 420 50-metre-tall pylons. It is a landscape which cannot stand the intrusion of disproportionately large, industrial structures.
These are judgements which clearly informed the 2012 decision to underground the link from the Triton Knoll windfarm to the Bicker Fen sub-station. If such considerations applied in 2012, it is difficult to understand why NG should now think it acceptable to route 440kV cables over a broadly similar route.
An integrated offshore grid has been demonstrated by National Grid to be technically feasible, better for consumers to the tune of £6bn, to offer environmental and socio-economic benefits and to be more effective the sooner it is started.
We therefore call on National Grid to:
1. engage in a genuine consultation process with the communities of Lincolnshire to identify the best approach to building transmission capacity with the least impact on landscapes, agriculture and socio-economic well-being;
2. engage in such consultation with an open mind, rather than a pre-determined preferred option;
3. support an approach to value-for-money assessment which follows the Treasury Green Book principles and does not simply ignore unmonetised costs and benefits;
4. adopt an integrated approach to transmission capacity development, reflecting the potential benefits of an integrated offshore grid.
See the full submission at
https://nopylons.co.uk/official-objections
Lincolnshire’s MPs, Lincolnshire County Council, district and parish councils are opposing the pylons plan and Victoria Atkins, MP for Horncastle and Louth, has launched a short four-question survey for constituents ending this Sunday (March 10). www.victoriaatkins.org.uk/news/pylon-survey-offshore-alternative
She is calling for an independent review of the offshore alternatives.
No Pylons Lincolnshire is urging everyone to take part in the current National Grid consultation, which ends on March 13.
The easiest way is to email your name and the sentence “I strongly oppose National Grid’s pylons proposal for Grimsby to Walpole” to [email protected] or write to Freepost G TO W (no stamp or further address required).
To all the strong, inspiring, fierce and compassionate women out there, Happy International Women's Day! ✨
Please be vigilant
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Not sure what to do this afternoon, why not head down to Carters Park this afternoon for Holbeach food festival. There’s lots of yummy treats on offer plus some great drinks too!
Who spotted Spalding on Good Morning Britain this morning? Excuse the dodgy filming...had just woken up and switched the tv on. The next weather report my baby cried all the way through so this was the best of it 😝
