Burnham-On-Sea Chamber Of Trade is due to hear this week whether its application for a £2,500 grant from Sedgemoor District Council to update the town’s Christmas lights is to be given the green light.
The Grants Award Panel is due to decide whether to provide funding to help the Chamber’s £7,000 project to supply, replace and erect lights along the High Street, Victoria Street and College Street.
The grant request is for 32 per cent of the project’s overall cost. Under the proposals, a total of £4,788 is to be spent on new lights in the coming months while the remainder will be spent on installation.
Meanwhile, it’s been confirmed this week that Burnham-On-Sea’s Christmas lights will be switched on along the town’s High Street on Saturday November 25th.
The festive light-up will be held, as normal, at the southern end of the main shopping area in front of the Somerset and Dorset pub and a celebrity may also be enlisted to perform the switch-on.
John Edwards, Chairman of Burnham-On-Sea’s Chamber of Trade, which oversees the illuminations, said on Wednesday that a TV weather presenter had been approached, along with several other well-known faces.
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