WESTBURY Town Council awarded three local organisations grants towards their running costs and entertainment, during the town council meeting on Monday 13th May.
Matravers School was awarded £500 to help fund a live evening performance by the Oddsocks theatre company of ‘A Midsummer Nights Dream’. The school hopes this will bring live Shakespeare into the Westbury community and it is their hope that some residents would see Shakespeare for the first time.
The sum of £7,500 was awarded to the Westbury Heritage Society to cover their annual rent for the next year and to continue running the Heritage Centre for people to learn about the historical artefacts in the town and the town’s history.
Local charity Crosspoint was awarded £6,000, which will be used towards the rental and running cost of the charity – this will provide them with 50% of the total costs, the other 50% will be raised by donation.
This grant will allow the charity to meet its financial obligations of £15,000 per annum, for rent, utility bills and other overhead costs and will be crucial to enable Crosspoint to continue offering its current services.
Crosspoint is a local charity, founded on Christian values, set up to relieve poverty, sickness and distress amongst the inhabitants of Westbury and the surrounding area by the provision of such services and facilities as the trustees may from time to time think fit, irrespective of age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, race or religion by the provision of such services and facilities as the trustees may from time to time think fit.
