A £10,000 grant from South Western Railway’s Customer and Community Improvement Fund has been awarded to Artswork to make Sandown Railway Station more welcoming to the whole community.
The money has been awarded to the charity’s Young Cultural Changemakers project. The Island-based project is one of 19 across the south coast to benefit from the near £500,000 fund.
All the projects to be awarded funding, which have been submitted variously by charities, community groups and local authorities, are short-term schemes which should be completed by the end of April 2026.
Peter Williams, South Western Railway’s Customer and Commercial Director, said:
“We’ve been amazed by the number and variety of initiatives that have applied for grants from CCIF this year and it’s been a difficult job to narrow it down to the 19 projects that we’re supporting.
“These projects will make a difference in communities all around our network and help people from Waterloo to Weymouth and
“Over the last eight years, we have invested more than £8.6 million in a wide range of community-based projects through CCIF. The work that the groups and charities we fund do to support their local areas can never be underestimated and it’s important to us that these CCIF grants can help to make life better for people in towns, villages and cities across the south west.”
How about making sandown more appealing
If only IW Council were concerned about the looks
of Sandown High Street and Esplanade.
While I welcome these incentives (and they do work) the station is the least of Sandown’s issues. It’s charming enough as it is. The High Street on the other hand…