Police and Crime Commisioner’s Community Grants 2024

Grant requirements

To apply for a grant your organisation must meet the general Eligibility criteria. In addition to this, you must also meet the specific criteria of the grant listed below:

Who can apply

Charities, CICs and community and voluntary groups working in Cornwall or The Isles of Scilly

What it will support:

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.

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”