April 2, 2013 3.50 pm
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Charity Expo in Lincoln to bring together charities and businesses
Charity expo: A brand new charity event will start up in Lincoln next month, encouraging charities and volunteer groups to network with local businesses.
A brand new charity event will start up in Lincoln next month, encouraging charities and volunteer groups to network with local businesses.
The Lincolnshire Charity Expo will take place on May 17 at The Showroom on Tritton Road, and will feature seminars and presentations for a variety of sectors.
The event is organised by Lincolnshire YMCA in partnership with St Barnabas Hospice and The Lincolnite.
The seminars will focus around marketing and fundraising, and to help connect Lincolnshire, all sector businesses are invited to see how they can work with, help or advise the third sector.
Businesses are also invited to exhibit their products and services, and representatives from the public sector who can advise charities on procuring contracts are welcomed too.
Dean Graham, Business Manager for Lincolnshire YMCA, said: “It’s important to recognise that the third sector has unique and diverse challenges, which need to be addressed directly as opposed to as part of a bigger, more general event.
“Charities have a difficult job to do to sustain themselves, particularly in these times of austerity and this event can assist in offering the additional support required.
“LCE brings together those businesses and individuals who have cut their teeth in the private sector, where sustainability is the key driver rather than a secondary factor, with charities who can learn from them.”
Rachael Hewitt, Corporate Fundraiser for St Barnabas Hospice said: “We are thrilled to be working with Lincolnshire YMCA and The Lincolnite on the upcoming Lincolnshire Charity Expo.
“There will be lots of interesting information for third sector organisations and I’d definitely say that it’s an event not to be missed by anybody working in this field.”
The event starts at 9.30am through to 4pm, and costs £15 per delegate. A light lunch is included. Business exhibition stands cost £200 for the day.
For more information or to book a stand contact Lyndsey Hannam on 01522 508377, or email [email protected]
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A 38-year-old man from a North Lincolnshire village charged with murder will face an eight-day trial later this year.
Emergency services were called at 4.23am on Saturday, July 2 to reports that a man was seriously injured on South Parade in central Doncaster.
The 28-year-old victim was taken to hospital but was sadly pronounced dead a short time later.
A post-mortem examination found that he died of injuries to his head, chest and abdomen.
Formal identification of the victim is yet to take place, South Yorkshire Police said earlier this week.
Steven Ling, 38, of Park Drain, Westwoodside in North Lincolnshire, has been charged with murder and was remanded in custody to appear at Doncaster Magistrates Court on Monday, July 4.
Ling later appeared at Sheffield Crown Court on Tuesday, July 5 for a plea and trial preparation hearing.
No pleas were entered during the hearing, but an eight-day trial was set for November 28, 2022. Ling has now been remanded into custody until the next hearing.
The Lincolnite went on a ride-along with a Lincolnshire Police officer from the force’s Roads Policing Unit (RPU), which aims to disrupt criminals’ use of the roads and reduce the number of serious and fatal accidents.
The team will support the county response including local policing, neighbourhood policing and criminal investigation too.
Operations first began in Grantham in January this year and started in Louth earlier this week with a sergeant and nine PCs based in both locations.
The Lincolnite went out on a ride-along with PC Rich Precious from Lincolnshire Police’s Roads Policing Unit. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
PC Rich Precious has been a police officer for 22 years after joining the force in 2000 and he recently rejoined the Roads Policing Unit, working out of Louth.
PC Precious, who also previously worked as a family liaison officer for road deaths for 16 years, took The Lincolnite out in his police car to the A1 up to Colsteworth and then back to Grantham. He described that particular area as “one of the main arterial routes that goes through Lincolnshire”.
PC Rich Precious driving down the A1 up to Colsterworth. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
Speaking about the new Roads Policing Unit, he said: “It’s intelligence led policing, it’s targeted policing in areas that have been underrepresented in terms of police presence, on the roads certainly, over a number of years.
“We’re hoping that the development of this unit will help address that balance, and look towards using the ANPR system to prevent criminals’ use of the road, and to identify key areas or routes where there’s a high percentage of people killed or seriously injured on the road, what we commonly refer to as KSI.
PC Precious is helping to keep the roads safer in Lincolnshire. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
When asked if he thinks the new team will help reduce the number of serious and fatal accidents in the county, he added: “That’s what the the unit designed for. Sadly, in Lincolnshire our road network does seem to incur a number of those KSI accidents year on year, and we need to reduce that.
“I’ve worked additionally in my roles as a family liaison officer on road death for 16 years, so I’ve seen first hand the impact that road death has on families and victims families.
“I know it’s important that we try and reduce those because, it’s very sad to see how a fatal road traffic collision can affect a family and the victims of that family.”
Marc Gee, Inspector for Lincolnshire Police’s Roads Policing Unit. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
Marc Gee, Inspector for the Roads Policing Unit, told The Lincolnite: “Every day there will be officers on duty from both teams and they’ll cover the whole county or the county’s roads.
“Eventually, we’ll have nine police cars and we’ve got six motorbikes. We’ll be utilising them with as many officers as we can every day basically to make our roads safer and enforce against the criminals who feel like it’s okay to come into the county and use our road for criminal purposes.”
Lincolnshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Marc Jones at the launch of the force’s Roads Policing Unit. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
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