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A town’s treasure-house Victorian museum that faces an uncertain future has announced a boost of £10,000 from the Garfield Weston Foundation to its drive towards sustainable self-funding. Wisbech and Fenland Museum applied to the foundation for a grant to help pay running costs as it works to find a new sustainable model to keep the lights on and staff paid while funding from other sources including local authorities dwindles. The Foundation is a family-founded grant-maker that hands out around £ 100 million a year to good causes. Curator Robert Bell said: “We applied for ‘breathing space: a c…

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