The Local Joint Committee for the Bishops Castle, Clun and Chirbury areas is to press on with its work despite the scrapping of its funding for community grant awards by Shropshire Council.
Since they were set up in 2009 Local Joint Committees have done sterling work in bringing Parish Councils and Shropshire Council together to discuss key issues. We have also been able to summon public bodies such as the Ambulance service and the police to talk about their service to our communities.
The removal of the grant pot by Shropshire Council will be felt keenly across the County. However the Committee felt strongly that we must work hard to make up this deficit by finding other sources of income to fund our community grant scheme.