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@hugo7
Definitely fix up. If you take an old road bike, wack new wheels, tyres, chain and clean the difference is amazing.
If the bike is as tatty as you say, you'll prolly only get £140-200 for it, plus £150 = a budget of £350 max. What were you thinking of buying for that?
If you like the bike and the ride stay with it. Is there anything in particular you can feel as being wrong?
Here's a new front wheel for £40
Or an open sport laced to an on-one hub.
My list of upgrades would be:
Front Wheel + new tyres
Chainring and cog (TA do good chainrings at a pricepoint)
Chain (KMC)
Brake pads (Fibrax are cheap but good)
None of that requires a shop. Just allen keys, greese, the search function here and/or youtube. And even if you went a bit wild I think £165 would be your top wack.
After that, maybe replace the brake cables, check the crankset + BB and headset.
All bikes wear out and age.