Deadline: 16-Jun-23
Avon and Somerset Police & Crime commissioner is seeking applications for the Crime Prevention Fund for helping communities become safer.
Funding Information
- You can ask for between £1,000 and £5,000.
- They have nearly £200,000 to give out a year and expect to make about 50 grants in total.
- This money will be distributed around the area covered by Avon & Somerset Police based on the number of people who live in each place. That means that approximately:
- £80,000 will be awarded to groups in Bristol
- £60,000 to groups in Somerset
- £20,000 each to groups in BANES, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
Eligible use of Funding
- They are interested in giving money for a wide range of activities, including:
- Services for young people, so they can develop social and emotional skills. This can help them avoid contact with the criminal justice system, so they believe they’re important. They might support youth club or another group to provide this. They might also support them to give young people another chance if they’ve got into trouble.
- Events that bring people together who might not otherwise get to know each other. This can help build community cohesion, which in turn can combat things like antisocial behaviour and hate crime.
- Raising awareness, so certain groups become less likely to fall victim to a crime. They might support a project that teaches older people about how to spot online fraud. They might also support you to train your frontline staff and volunteers to spot the signs of someone being at risk of crime.
- This isn’t everything they will support, but whatever you apply for you must be able to tell them how it helps to prevent crime in some way. This is important, because this money must contribute to the Police and Crime Plan 2021 – 2025.
- If you can do that, then they are happy to consider paying for:
- people’s time to deliver the project
- a contribution towards people’s time to manage your group
- travel
- buying small items of equipment
- a contribution towards your group’s core running costs, like training and development.
Eligibility Criteria
- You can only apply if you work or volunteer for a group that:
- is based in BANES, Bristol, North Somerset, Somerset, or South Gloucestershire
- is run by a committee or board of at least 3 unrelated people
- has a governing document or set of rules
- has an appropriate level of free reserves. If this is more than 12 months running costs, then you should have a policy explaining why
- has a safeguarding policy
- has a bank account in its name, which requires two unrelated signatories.
- They welcome applications from groups that exist to support people in their local community. They can award money to groups that are not registered charities, but the purpose of the funding must be charitable. This means they can give a grant to:
- community groups
- registered charities
- community amateur sports clubs
- community interest companies (CIC) limited by guarantee that have a clear asset lock benefitting local communities
- companies limited by guarantee that are not-for-profit with all surpluses re-invested back into the organisation
- faith organisations, but not for the promotion of religion
- community benefit societies.
- Please note that they can consider applications from national or regional organisations, but only where there is no local organisation undertaking the work in question. In such cases they will only consider projects that are clearly targeted in their area, and not contributions to national campaigns.
Ineligibility
- They can’t help you if:
- you want to make an individual building more secure by installing things like CCTV, gates, fences etc., unless it prevents a known threat of criminal activity.
- you want to provide counselling services
- your work is being considered under other OPCC or Ministry of Justice funding programmes.
- you have applied to this fund before and been turned down, unless they are applying for a different activity or significant changes have been made
- you have received a grant from this fund in the last 12 months
- you’re an individual, or operate as a sole trader or company limited by shares
- you work or volunteer for a statutory organisation, like a parish council or school
- you want to provide a statutory duty, like educational activities for pupils that take place during the school day
- your activities have already taken place or if you have already purchased what you need
- you work or volunteer for a group that gives money to another group, rather than spend it on their own activities
- your work is about animal welfare.
For more information, visit Avon and Somerset Police & Crime commissioner.
