Deadline: 26-Oct-21
The Hertfordshire Community Foundation (HCF) is seeking applications for its Police and Crime Commissioner’s Fund to support community and voluntary initiatives which will reduce crime and make Hertfordshire a safer place to live by helping to deliver the priorities of the Community Safety and Criminal Justice Plan for Hertfordshire.
The fund is made up from funds recovered under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) and empowers local groups to find solutions to community safety problems.
Priorities
The four priorities and the activities which they include are:
- Building on success
- Crime reduction: early intervention and prevention
- Tackling serious violence
- Tackling the misuse of drugs and alcohol
- Preventing fraud
- Serious and organised crime and cybercrime
- Safeguarding vulnerable people
- Tackling modern slavery
- Reducing reoffending
- Putting victims at the centre
- Preventing and protecting victims
- Tackling hate crime
- Domestic abuse
- Restorative justice
- Public focus
- Local initiatives
- Rural crime
- Volunteering opportunities
- Business sense
- Partnership working
- Working with responsible businesses
Funding Information
- Grants of up to £5,000 are available from the Police Commissioner’s Action Fund to support innovative local schemes which aim to reduce crime and make their communities safer. Your project will help deliver the aims of the Commissioner’s Community Safety and Criminal Justice Plan for Hertfordshire (2019-2024) which sets out the priorities for ‘Everyone’s Business.’
- Size of group: this fund prioritises smaller local initiatives. Charitable groups with an income of more than £1m will not normally be considered.
Eligibility Criteria
- 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.
- 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.
For more information, visit https://www.hertscf.org.uk/pcc-action-fund