THE Wellington Museum and Local History Society has been given a £750 grant by local councillors.

Members of Wellington Town Council agreed at their latest meeting to award the grant as part of an annual agreement whereby the council sub-lets the museum space in Fore Street to the society for £1,000 a year – offsetting the cost with a grant of £750.

Curator Colin Spackman told councillors it was the museum’s 36th year of operating and that 2,500 people had visited in the past year from as close by as Bridgwater to as far afield as Wellington in New Zealand.

Cllr Vivienne Stock-Williams said: “I would like to congratulate everyone at the museum on promoting the town so well.”

IT’s not a bad deal at all – a town centre office for just £105 a month. So no wonder Wellington Town Council is going to snap up the offer.

Members of the town council heard at their monthly meeting that it was being given the opportunity to rent an extra office from landlords Somerset West and Taunton Council at its existing headquarters in Fore Street for a three-year period.

Councillors were told the rent would be £1,265 a year – although the town council would have to pay for business rates, insurance, any repairs needed and legal costs incurred in the proposed lease.

Cllr Mark Lithgow said: “We should take this forward. Wellington is a growing town and we are already stretched with the resources we have got.”