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Civic soirée cash helps job seekers
By Victoria CorbettJune 24, 2009
Taxpayers’ cash that had been earmarked for a civic shindig has been donated to Wokingham Job Support Centre.
The £3,000 was due to be used to fund the civic reception but the posh do was called off following outrage across the town.
Now the cash has been donated to the support centre at the Cornerstone in Norreys Avenue.
The civic reception is normally hosted every year by the mayor at Taxpayers' cost to thank dignitaries including town, parish and borough councillors as well as MPs for their work.
But this year the news that the bash would go ahead as normal despite the recession caused fury, with the Lib Dems and Tory MP John Redwood threatening to boycott it.
Borough councillor Pauline Helliar-Symons - the then borough mayor - was forced to call the whole thing off and use the cash for a worthy cause.
- More in this week's Wokingham Times.
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