Sovereign Housing Association, one of the country’s largest housing associations, working with not-for-profit digital fundraising platform The Good Exchange, have awarded grants of over £10,000 gave grants to two local community groups, Swindon’s Shinepinehurst and the Golden-Oldies charity.
The Golden-Oldies Charity, fondly known as “Goldies”, delivers fun daytime social Sing&Smile community groups, supporting health, wellbeing and independent living by combating loneliness and isolation with older adults.
Founder Grenville Jones said: “We were absolutely delighted to receive funding from Sovereign Housing via The Good Exchange.
“We have many plans for 2022, including relaunching many of our popular social sing-along groups that had to stop with COVID, but also to launch many more new groups across the region.
“We look forward to working in partnership with Sovereign Housing, offering their residents opportunities for fun and friendship, engaging in local community-based activities over the coming month.”
Rachel Peters, Community Development Officer for Sovereign, 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, 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.”
