WELLINGTON Town Council, which has supported the Taunton and District Citizens’ Advice Bureau for many years, agreed at its April meeting to make a grant of £2,900 for the CAB’s regular outreach service held in Wellington in the town council’s building at 28 Fore Street. 

This was the amount requested by the CAB and the same figure as the council gave last year.

Town clerk Greg Dyke reported that the CAB had been busier than ever in Wellington with a 53 per cent increase in enquiries.

Cllr Andy Govier said it was an important facility for the town and saved people from having to go into Taunton.

*THE council also made a grant of £300 to Wellington Quakers towards the funding of the Celebration of Light 2016.  This is to be held in the gardens of the Quaker Meeting House in HIgh Street in the last few weeks of the year around Christmas time as in previous years.  The event has been supported by the council in the past.

The town council has £15,000 in its grants budget for the new financial year which started on 1 April and also had just over £1,000 left in its 2015-16 grants budget.