Melksham's food festival gets a £1k grant boost (From Wiltshire Times)

Melksham's food festival gets a £1k grant boost

10:30am Monday 8th February 2010

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Melksham's second annual food festival has been given a £1,000 grant from the town’s area board to help stage the event in June.

Melksham Town Council, which is organising the week-long festival, were awarded the money for the festival at a meeting last Wednesday.

A total of £3,754 was awarded to the town council to spend on projects, including £974 to put graphics into empty shop windows to improve the look of the town centre, as well as £800 towards an annual playday for children, planned for August 4 in King George V playing field.

A grant of £980 was also given towards improvements to signs in the car parks and shopping areas, which will include replacing signs at Avon Place Shopping Centre and putting up a lockable, outside cabinet that will house local business maps in the town’s main car park.

InfoZone Homework Club, which operates from Melksham Library, were awarded £2,889 to help towards salary costs.

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