A HAMPSHIRE charity that uses its herd of horses to support people’s emotional health has received nearly £100,000 through the National Lottery.

The team from Tower House Horses, in Micheldever Station, was thrilled to accept £95,197 from the National Lottery Community Fund on Friday, March 3, securing its financial future for the next three years.

The money will support the delivery of equine-assisted emotional health and wellbeing services to the charity’s clients including young people and adults coping with anxiety and depression, survivors of domestic abuse, those in recovery from substance misuse, and asylum seekers.

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The funding will also contribute to the charity’s running costs such as the care of its six horses and group projects until 2026.

Chief executive Susie Little said: “We are thrilled because it gives us so much more security to know that we have this guaranteed income for three years.

“It’s a great boost to our confidence that the National Lottery has seen fit to award us the full amount – every penny we asked for. I can’t speak highly enough of our regional funding team at the National Lottery Community Fund. 

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“During the pandemic, we would have struggled to survive without their emergency aid, which enabled us to keep feeding the horses over the period when we could not see clients in person at our centre near Micheldever Station and had virtually no income. This grant is recognition that the work we do is valued and we are very proud of that and the fact we can make a real difference to people’s lives.”

The National Lottery Community Fund distributes more than £600m a year, raised by lottery players, to communities across the UK. For more information go to tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/.

And for more on the charity that has been supporting people with its horses since 2011 go to towerhousehorses.org/.