WELLINGTON Town Council agreed to grants totalling £4,550 at its monthly meeting on Monday.

It approved a contribution of £1,300 towards the total cost of £2,575 in relation to the work WHERE does with its partially sighted group.

A report to councillors stated: “Members have previously acknowledged the valuable work that WHERE does.

“The council has supported WHERE with the work of the partially sighted group in 2015-16 when a grant of £1,075 was made and again in 2016-17 when a grant of £1,005 was awarded.”

The council agreed to a grant of £1,000 to the Wiveliscombe Area Partnership in relation to the Wivey Link Scheme.

Councillors were told: “This is a successful community transport service which has been running for a number of years.

“Although the scheme is based in Wiveliscombe and covers surrounding parishes it regularly collects 46 people in Wellington and Rockwell Green but is sure that there are more residents who aren’t aware that they could access the service.”

Wellington Local History and Museum Society will receive £750 towards the cost of providing and fitting a new carpet in the museum. The overall cost is £1,500.

A report stated: “This will replace the existing carpet which has been in the museum for 35 years.

“The council makes an annual grant of £750 to the Museum Society. This relates specifically to the rent for the museum which is currently £1,000 a year. In the past the council has subsidised the society to the extent that we charge only £250 a year.

“Our internal auditor identified this some years ago as an indirect grant and suggested that we charge the full amount but grant aid the museum to the same level that we currently subsidise it.”

Wellington AFC Wildcats will get a grant of £1,000. Members were told: “The Wildcats provide football for girls. This part of the club has been hugely successful with numbers increasing year on year. It asked for £1,000 towards the cost of hiring the hall/astro pitch used for indoor and outdoor football training.

“The Wildcats have previously received grants of £650 in 2015/16 and £700 in 2016/16.”

Councillors were told that there was still £5,898 left in its grants budget for 2017/18.