SOUP! has helped more than 80 local good causes – and this grant-giving lunch run by Wells Independents will start the new year by benefitting another four.

The date will be this Saturday, January 6, and the venue the Connect Centre at the junction of Portway and Chamberlain Street in Wells.

At SOUP! volunteers from each good cause explains what they do, then the audience votes on which one would benefit most from the money on offer, but all four go away with funds and a raised profile.

"Come along at 12.45pm this Saturday to the Connect Centre for a memorable light lunch," said Wells SOUP! organiser Ross Young, "and hear the four speakers tell us in four minutes how their organisation supports local people, then take questions from the floor."

The good causes will be:

 ·      Wells Air Cadets.

 ·      WCN Wells Trishaw.

 ·      Edgar Phillips' Art Experience Days.

 ·      Wells in Mosaic.

"We are enormously grateful to Martin Bowe of Wells Business Centre, which is based at Probusiness, for match-funding January's SOUP! to the tune of £350," said Ross.

Before the four good causes give their four-minute presentations, previous winners the Strawberry Line will explain to the audience how they are using the money they received at October's SOUP!