This year’s Burnham-On-Sea seafront fireworks display will be fully insured just in case bad weather forces another cancellation like last year, organisers said on Monday (August 18th).
Cash-strapped Sedgemoor District Council withdrew its financial support for the event in March due to the authority’s huge £1.8m funding shortfall, but generous businesses and residents in Burnham rallied around, donating thousands of pounds to save the event, as Burnham-On-Sea.com first reported last month.
But the event’s organisers are taking no chances with the weather and Town Clerk Eileen Shaw told Monday’s town council meeting that the display would be fully insured.
“We have placed an order for the fireworks for this year’s display and have ensured the event is fully insured,” she said.
“If we have to cancel the event, the company running the display could charge us up to 50 per cent of the overall costs, which would stretch into thousands of pounds, so we’ve approached an insurance company to cover the other half. It’s a small price to pay for financial security.”
This year’s fireworks will be held on Sunday November 9th, the night before this year’s Burnham-On-Sea Carnival on Monday November 10th.
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