3 Isle of Wight community projects are celebrating after receiving a share of £7,400 of project funding.
Sovereign Housing Association, working with not-for-profit digital fundraising platform The Good Exchange, has given grants to Cowes’ Moorgreen Road Allotment Society, and Newport’s Independent Arts and Market Days. All awarded projects had to focus on growing community impact.
Moorgreen Road Allotment Society is working with local people and partners to improve woodlands in Cowes, by improving tree management, enabling public access to the site for the first time, and protecting its habitat value for wildlife, which will strengthen the town’s network of green spaces.
Member Pete Fellows has said:
“Funding from Sovereign has provided a huge opportunity for all members of the community in Cowes to work together to reclaim a neglected and under-used publicly-owned woodland.”
Rachel Peters, Community Development Officer for Sovereign, has commented:
“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.”
Julian May, Head of Collaborative Funding for The Good Exchange, has added:
“We are delighted that Sovereign was able to use The Good Exchange platform to help find, shortlist, and distribute grants to a number of charities across the Isle of Wight. The focus on supporting projects that deliver impact and engagement across communities has become even more important as we move into the COVID-recovery period.”
Could they have used this to repaint the newly laid parking lines in St Cross Court.
Far to small to park in, without any space around you and the herring bone parking was there for a reason, now even their own vans can’t get into the bays.