AN ANDOVER charity has been selected as one of four community groups to receive a share of more than £14.6k in project funding.

Sovereign Housing Association, working with not-for-profit digital fundraising platform The Good Exchange, gave a grant to Andover’s More Education, as well as fellow Hampshire causes Bishop’s Green Community Association, Basingstoke’s Fluid Motion Theatre Company, and Lymington’s St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery.

All awarded projects had to focus on growing community impact.

Rachel Peters, community development officer for Sovereign, said: "Our themes were community cohesion and growth and it has been great to support so many grassroots and resident-led projects that focus on bringing people back together and will make a real impact in our communities.”

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Julian May, head of collaborative funding for The Good Exchange, added: “As well as the grants received from Sovereign, many of these projects have also received and continue to be eligible for funding from other funders in the area and we look forward to continuing to help the local charitable sector in this way going forwards.”

“The ability for Sovereign to use The Good Exchange platform to give its grants alongside other grant funding organisations enables local charities to raise the money they need in a faster and more effective way, through a single application.”

More Education was founded in 2019 by Tori Rist, with the aim of creating the Andover Small School. As time passed, the trustees realised that there was a need for more support within the wider local neurodivergent community and launched the Koala Community Hub in June 2021.

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