THE chairman of a community group is proud of the work it has done to help a village as it is set to dissolve.

Think! Burnham will cease to support the village after its chairman, Viv Nicholas, and the group's committee agreed that it had 'run its course'.

The group formed in 2008 and has helped to shape programmes in Burnham, as well as provide valuable information through surveys and questionnaires.

Mr Nicholas said: "I do not think it is a bad thing to pack up as it gives room for people to come through.

"I think we just reached a point where it was difficult to get the drive and purpose.

"We didn't really have much of a shared and common agenda anymore; we had run our course."

Think! Burnham helped to promote many initiatives, including a High Street study and a health check, and Mr Nicholas was particularly proud of the interaction with village residents.

He said: "I think the best thing we did was conduct two pretty good surveys.

"One was of the village in general when we first started and later on in 2014 on the High Street.

"They were well done and well reported and I think they have been very helpful for the village.

"That is where our strength was - to find out what people were thinking."

But Mr Nicholas does not think it will be the final end of the group and thinks it may return in a different guise.

He said: "It is just a question of getting breath a bit.

"There has been an issue like the Station Road closure which we were mindful of but there is no real burning issue in Burnham at the moment.

"The other thing is that most of the people that have been with the group for all this time aren't young, and the average age of the group is more than it was when we started.

"When we reform and start again we would need some younger blood.

"We will wait to see what becomes an issue in the community that needs some sort of shared interest. Maybe a slightly different group would emerge and some of the people would be happy to take on that group in a slightly different direction."

There is still around £800 left in the bank, and the group's committee is yet to decide what to do with that before the formal dissolution date on February 15.