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Our Andover About Us

WELCOME TO OUR ANDOVER!

OUR ANDOVER is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company (CIC) whose Aim is to enable Andover and surrounding Villages become an unique and attractive location for residents, visitors and businesses.  The whole ethos of OUR ANDOVER is to keep things local, promote everything local and to encourage the community to get involved in improving things for themselves and others, so that our Town and surrounding Villages prosper socially and economically.

With so many shops leaving and with continual cuts to public services, a group of residents from Andover and surrounding Villages have got together to form OUR ANDOVER to both deliver and influence short, medium and long term improvements to the area. They want to turn the tide of decline of shops, tourism and businesses and help create a sustainable future for Andover and surrounding Villages. 

OUR ANDOVER projects are community-led so that the community have a real say on what projects we take forward.  These projects will be delivered as short, medium and long term projects by OUR ANDOVER, in conjunction with other organisations and/or by influencing ongoing projects.  The project lists are living documents and the priority of projects change as the community vote for the different ideas.  The project lists are not definitive and people can add projects at any time. 

OUR ANDOVER was formed in May 2018 as a not-for-profit Community Interest Company limited by guarantee registered with Companies’ House under company number 11365178.

This legal structure forms the centre of a dynamic umbrella organisation consisting of different themed groups, for example tourism, building and housing, business and the local economy, and with over 20 local projects, originating from these groups or who have become affiliated with OUR ANDOVER due to common aims and principles.

It is self-organising, mainly volunteer operated, and community-led.  Projects are developed by interested members of the community coming together to make them happen, with support for communications, strategic representation and fund-raising from the OUR ANDOVER office.