A FESTIVAL which sought to improve people's mental health through music intervention will no longer run after an incredible seven years.

The organiser of the Andover Rocks festival has announced that the much-loved show will cease.

Marie Ponting first took to Facebook to share the news with residents.

She posted: "As of tonight Andover Rocks will cease. I would love to thank everyone that has been on this seven-year journey with me. My heart bursts with pride at our achievements. We have raised over £10k for music intervention in adult mental health, ran six festivals, delivered 46 workshops and seen 97 performances with over 1,500 performers.

"Firstly the team, thank you all from the bottom of my heart, without you all it would have been nearly impossible, to go with the crazy ideas that were thrown at you.

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"To all the performers and workshop facilitators over the years, you’ve always brought nothing but passion, I thank you. To all the audience, thank you. Thank you to all the venues that have opened their doors to us. So as our slogan always says 'in a world where you can be anything, please be kind'."

In the past, they have funded Alabare’s The Junction music project and supported Andover MIND by setting up singing and guitar workshops.

This is achieved in several ways including through the music festival, which included many venues such as the White Hart, The Rockhouse, The time Ring and Queen Charlotte.

On top of this, they also ran drumming and meditation workshops, storytelling, poetry and expressive writing classes during the festival’s long weekend.

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Speaking to the Advertiser Marie said: "It has been an amazing journey but it is very tiring organising that and it is time I focused on my own business and my own family. It has been a wonderful run and an amazing seven years.

"The things we have achieved have just been incredible and not one single person within Rock, no performers, sound men or organiser ever got paid. Everybody did that festival for free and I think that is the proudest thing for me. The fact that everybody understood why we had come together and the amount of awareness we raised for adult mental health are the two sticking points for me."