A CARE group for the elderly in Bishop’s Waltham is just months away from closure, a councillor has warned.

A lunch group meets at the town’s Jubilee Hall every Tuesday, but organisers appealed to the parish council for a grant after it began to struggle with the hall fees.

Cllr Robert Shields said: “If you look at its accounts, the lunch club has got about eight months left in its existence. It won’t last a year.”

Cllr Shields also noted there were two other such clubs, running on Mondays and Thursdays, and urged the groups to join together. “Why are the three clubs working differently? Trying to get them to work together would be pretty difficult but in the long term future that has to be done.”

The parish council voted to award the group a £1,000 grant.