Police & Crime Commissioner’s Community Grants 2024
Description: The overarching aim of the Police and Crime Plan is to support safe, resilient and connected communities and it outlines five priorities as key to achieving this. For 2024, the Commissioner's Community Grants Fund will focus particularly on crime prevention initiatives to make community spaces safer and education and/or activities for people with drug and alcohol issues.
Type: Project costs
Status: Open
Maximum: The grants range from £1000 - £5000
Opening: 05/11/2024
Deadline: 13/12/2024
Notes: The panel will be reviewing applications in early February 2025
About the Fund
The Police & Crime Commissioner’s (PCC) Community Grants Programme is aimed at supporting community groups and organisations whose work aligns with the commissioning intentions of the Police & Crime Plan 2021-25.
The overarching aim of the Police & Crime Plan is to support safe, resilient & connected communities, and it outlines five priorities as key to achieving this.
For 2024, the Commissioner’s Community Grants fund will focus particularly on:
- Crime prevention initiatives to make community spaces safer:
This funding is available for organisations aiming to make physical improvements to local public spaces e.g. local parks, sports grounds, municipal areas, shopping centres. - Projects focusing on offering education and or purposeful activities for people with anti-social drug and alcohol issues:
Purposeful activities and or education for people who already have existing substance misuse issues. The intention is to support individuals to embrace behaviour change and/or to provide diversionary activity or education.
Some examples of how to create safer spaces:
- Vision and wayfaring: Effective wayfinding includes signs, maps and other visual cues to help orient and guide people through a space and to their destination.
- Lighting: key to a feeling of security in public spaces at night and new technology allows far more intelligent use of lighting to ensure safety can be tailored to the space.
- Improving green spaces: Larger elements such as taller shrubs and trees, therefore, should of course still be utilised in landscape design, but placed further away from more highly trafficked sections of public realm. As well as removing potential places of concealment for would-be attackers close to main thoroughfares.
Applications are invited from small – medium sized voluntary, community & social enterprise (VCSE) groups & organisations in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, for work or projects that address one or more of the key priority issues and align with the Commissioner’s aims.
Funding for core organisational costs will be considered where the mission & work of the organisation as a whole aligns with one or more of the priority themes.
The OPCC is keen to support organisations who may be facing challenges related to the cost-of-living crisis and where they may be experiencing the ‘triple whammy’ of increased running costs, increased demand and a reduction in funding.
Where an applicant group or organisation has broader aims & purpose(s) but wishes to undertake an activity or project that fits the fund priorities, applications can be submitted for full or partial project costs.
All applications should demonstrate how the organisation or project benefits local communities and include details of how the organisation or project will be sustained or developed beyond the grant period.
New applicants and previous grantees are welcome to apply although funding should not be sought to complete work that has already been funded by the OPCC.
Grants will be awarded up to a maximum of £5,000.
Grants will need to be spent within 12 months of receipt, and End of Grant reports & feedback must be provided within 3 months of the end of the grant period.
Application Criteria
To be considered for funding, applications must:
- Be from an eligible group or organisation (see Eligibility to Apply below)
- Detail how the organisation’s work or project addresses one or more of the priorities and supports safe, resilient & connected communities.
- Detail how the work or project will benefit individuals, any identified population groups and the local community.
- Explain how the organisation’s work or project will be sustained beyond the grant period.
- Detail costs & expenses to be covered by the grant, whether core or project costs
Application Timeline
Deadline for applications is 9am on Fri 13h Dec 2024
The Panel are due to meet early /mid-February, and we will aim to inform applicants of the outcomes by close of play on Friday 28th February 2025
Application Form
To apply, complete our online grant application form.
Eligibility to Apply
Applications can be considered from not-for-profit community groups, organisations or social enterprises operating in Cornwall. You don’t need to be a registered charity, but your activities must be considered charitable, and you must have the following:
- A recognised governing document e.g. Constitution, Articles which outlines the organisation’s objectives, and it must have a Dissolution Clause.
- A minimum of three unrelated members on your Management Committee or Board of Trustees. If you are a registered charity, your trustees should be registered with the Charity Commission.
- If you are working with children and/or people at risk, you must have a Safeguarding Policy in place. This should include your Safeguarding Officer’s name/s and contact details and information on the training that staff / volunteers undertake.
- Up to date annual accounts for your organisation or group.
- A bank account in the organisation or group’s name which requires two unrelated signatories for all withdrawals.
For further information about who can and cannot apply for grant funding from CCF, and answers to other FAQs, please see our webpage here: Frequently Asked Questions – Cornwall Community Foundation
Any queries about the Fund or application process should be directed to grants@cornwallfoundation.com.