Police and Crime Commissioner’s Fund to reduce Crime in UK

Deadline: 25-Jul-23

The Hertfordshire Community Foundation is seeking applications for the police and Crime Commissioner’s Fund Program to support innovative local schemes which aim to reduce crime and make the communities safer.

Priorities

• Preventing harm through early identification of vulnerability
• Improving the response to victims of sexual abuse
• Addressing and responding to domestic abuse
• Tackling the supply, demand and misuse of drugs and alcohol
• Improving the response to Mental Health
• Preventing and Tackling Hate Crime
• Fighting Fraud and Cybercrime
• Preventing and Reducing Reoffending
• Modern Slavery
• Growing Volunteering
• Reducing Business Crime

Funding Information

• Grants of up to £5,000.

What can they fund?

• Proposals can cover a range of activities lasting up to a year. These can include, but are not limited to practical activities, research projects, awareness raising or training. They can also fund some equipment and materials as part of a wider initiative.
• Initiatives should take a prevention approach and be backed up by evidence. This means working upstream to prevent crime happening in the first place and ensuring that the impact of a project can be measured.
• Initiatives should also strive to either keep crime low and/or support victims.

Who can apply? 

• The fund is open to voluntary and community groups, charitable and not for profit organisations, including uniformed youth groups. Community Safety Partnerships and Parish, Town and District Councils can also apply. The Commissioner particularly wants to support innovative projects which have sprung from local collaborations and partnerships and can make a lasting difference to communities in terms of safety.
• Size of group: this fund prioritises smaller local initiatives. Charitable groups with an annual income of more than £1m will not normally be considered.

Eligibility Criteria

• You are a not for profit voluntary or community group, active in your local community, with a written constitution or set of rules. Alternatively, you are a Community Safety Partnership, a Parish, Town, or District Council.
• This set of rules has at least the name of your group, its aims or purpose, objects, a dissolution clause for the group, a list of Trustees/Committee members and Trustee/Committee members’ signature. Please be aware they do require the organisation to have at least three independent trustees/management committee members.
• Your organisation has its own bank account with at least two independent signatories and all the relevant Equal Opportunities and Safeguarding Policies required for your work. (for CSPs there would be a nominated council Bank account).
• You are based in Hertfordshire or can show specifically how people in Hertfordshire benefit from your activities.
• Ineligible
  • National Charities without a Hertfordshire branch or a clear Hertfordshire focus.
  • Businesses or profit-making enterprises.
  • Organisations that cannot demonstrate public benefit as defined by the Charity Commission.
  • Hertfordshire Constabulary.
  • Individuals.