Police and Crime Commisioner’s Community Grants 2024
The Police and Crime Commissioner’s Community Grants FundA sum of money made available for grant making, often with specific criteria/conditions. welcomes applications from groups working on crime prevention for safer community spaces and projectsA piece of work that delivers an output. offering education and or purposeful activities for people with anti-social drug and alcohol issues.
The Police and Crime Commissioner’s Community Grants Fund is part of the Police and Crime Plan 2021-2025.
The aim of the fund is to support safe, resilient and connected communities with a key focus on crime prevention initiatives to make community spaces safer and education and/or activities for people with drug and alcohol issues.
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Grant Categories:
- Closed
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”
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.
- Projects or activities outside Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
- Commercial profit making organisations
- Organisations with significant free reserves
- Statutory/public sector organisations such as health authorities, schools, hospitals, parish and town councils
- Contributions to an endowment, payment of deficit funding or repayment of loans
- Grant making organisations or bodies who fundraise or distribute grants on behalf of other organisations
- Activities or projects which have already happened
- Regional offices of national bodies that do not benefit local people
- Organisations whose beneficiaries are not people
- Organisations or projects intended to influence people’s religious choices or to promote a particular belief system
- The promotion of political causes.
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.
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If you meet the eligibility criteria and are ready to submit an application, apply at the bottom of this page.
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If this is your first time applying to us start by reading the Application Process & Guidance. Here you can find useful information and resources to guide you through the application process.
If you’d like to speak to our Outreach Officer you can find contact details at the bottom of this page.
Key dates & decisions
Deposit dates can be vary, however grants are typically paid within 10 days of the panel decision.
Grants FAQ
You might have some questions about the application process, check our grants FAQ for answers to common questions.
Projects this grant has already supported:
Choose Nature CIC are able to extend their Nurture through Nature project with a grant from the Commissioner’s Community Grant Scheme
Choose Nature works to increase the well-being of individuals, communities and the environment by inspiring life-long learning and care in […]
KBSK create a safe space for local youth with a grant from the Commissioner’s Community Grant Scheme
Since 2019 KBSK Performing Arts CIC has been a safe and accessible place for local children and young people from […]
Youth centre created to provide inclusive and supportive environment for young people in Bodmin
Thanks to the Office of Police and Crime Commissioner for Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly funding from their […]
A Band of Brothers mentoring weekend runs with funding from the Commissioner’s Community Grant Scheme
A Band of Brothers Cornwall is a well-established charity providing mentoring programs for deprived, vulnerable young men including ex-offenders. A […]
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If you have additional needs and would like support completing your application, please contact us on 01566 779333 or email us at Grants@cornwallfoundation.com
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Shannon Lenton
Outreach Officer
01566 779333