HASLEMERE Town Council will have another chance to quiz Waverley over its decision to cut funding to Haslemere Museum and Haslemere Hall.

Members will meet Waverley's director of environment Peter Maudsley and the head of leisure services, Julie Maskery, to ask why key organisations in Haslemere have missed out on grants.

The move follows a meeting of the town council's finance and general purposes meeting last week in which Waverley's partnership funding officer Wendy Varcoe was called on to explain "the incredible bias" being shown to the rest of the borough over Haslemere.

Haslemere Museum had requested £5,000 as part of the sponsored organisation scheme which was turned down. Funding for Haslemere Hall has been cut by £1,000 to £2,000.

Members further questioned the fairness of Waverley-owned Farnham Museum and Memorial Hall receiving significant amounts in capital funding - almost a quarter of a million and £70,000 respectively.

But because Mrs Varcoe's remit deals with sponsored-organisation grants, she was unable to comment.

"I was only able to deal with the sponsored organisation scheme but clearly there was a lot of concern over the amounts being awarded to Farnham Museum," said Mrs Varcoe.

"So I've organised another meeting to allow Haslemere Town Council to raise these issues with those directly responsible for those budgets."

Michael Biddiscombe said: "I appreciate that it is necessary for Waverley to award large sums to Farnham and Godalming Museums which are run by the borough council, but if we can only get a look in from the limited grant-funding schemes, then it really isn't acceptable. Mrs Varcoe wasn't really able to talk about what we wanted to talk about as it wasn't in her remit but hopefully our comments will have been carried back to Waverley.

"Hopefully, our concerns will be addressed at this next meeting meeting, although it won't be so much about the grant issue but the way in which Waverley is giving its own museums such substantial sums of money."

A date for the meeting is expected to be confirmed next week.

•Waverley will be holding a community funding seminar on March 18 at Godalming Baptist Church at 6-30 pm in which organisations will be able to apply for the small-grants scheme.