Making Northamptonshire Safer Fund - Grants Awarded 2019-20
This fund, provided by the Northamptonshire Police Fire and Crime Commissioner, provides grants of between £3,000 and £10,000 for initiatives that support the aims of the Police and Crime Plan.
Organisation - SDD
Our Lives Matter
St James, Spencer,
Dallington and
Kingsheath
(Northampton)
£10,000
Prevention and Early
Intervention
Helps to raise awareness and reduce crime in the areas of knife crime, acid attacks and
hate crime
SSD must link with CIRV to help provide advice
and education
Bid Outline – To open the youth club for one additional night per week, during this night they would like to
focus on Knife crime, acid attacks, gangs and hate crime.
Organisation - Right Resolution
16 plus care leavers project
Countywide
£10,000
Prevention and Early
Intervention
The workshop content covers subjects related to crime and disorder, it also works with
young people who have engaged in crime or are at risk of doing so
N/A
Bid Outline – 4 x 8 week programme of workshops for care leavers looking at issues such as independent
living, mental health, crime, positive relationships and healthy living.
Organisation - Northampton Town FC Community Trust
NTFC Kicks
Wellingborough
£9,960
Prevention and Early Intervention
Engaging young people who are involved in (or on the edge of) crime or anti-social behaviour, providing positive activities to divert them and workshops in school about knife crime and fearless.
Sessions must cover both Hemmingwell and Queensway
Bid Outline -offering football sessions as a diversionary activity in two areas of Wellingborough that are highlighted as need something for young people to do to divert from crime and anti-social behaviour. The project is to run in the areas of Hemmingwell and Queensway.
Organisation - Daylight Centre Fellowship
5 Day Opening
Wellingborough
£10,000
Prevention and Early Intervention
Offering food and services to homeless people which has led to reductions in crime, such as shop lifting and anti-social behaviour.
N/A
Bid Outline – To allow for them to open on Fridays to support homeless and vulnerable people better. Clients reporting its very hard to have a 3 day weekend without access to the support and services (food bank, sleeping bags, shower etc.) and current resource only allows them to open until Thursdays.
Organisation - Northamptonshire Carers
Wellingborough Safe
Wellingborough
£9,699.53
Victims at the Heart of Justice and Reduce Reoffending
Burglary and fraud prevention support for the vulnerable elderly community.
N/A
Bid Outline – Raising awareness of crime and fraud with the elderly in Wellingborough, where vulnerability has been detected. Crime prevention advice to help prevent those identified from becoming victims of crime.
Organisation - Groundwork
Silent Tears
Kettering
£10,000
Victims at the Heart of Justice and Reduce Reoffending
Silent tears helps reduce the cycle of domestic abuse and helps to improve any mental health issues that manifest due to their experiences. This also links to our understanding of how children are affected by ACE’s in their lives.
N/A
Bid Outline – providing groupwork to children in families where domestic abuse is identified/disclosed, using various forms of art as a medium to engage and express themselves.
Organisation - Family Support Link
Changing Lanes
Countywide
£10,000
Victims at the Heart of Justice and Reduce Reoffending
preventative work to reduce the chance of people entering into crime and to reduce re-offending.
N/A
Bid Outline – To improve the physical and mental wellbeing of families affected by another person’s substance misuse to stop intergenerational substance misuse and to make the families affected feel safer in their own community and to avoid being pulled into criminality. It will be delivered through 1:1 and group work sessions.
Organisation - Northamptonshire Pub Watch
Safer Nights Project
Corby
£2,683.71
Prevention and Early Intervention
Impact on ASB, drug/alcohol related violence, harm to vulnerable people and criminal activity within premises.
1) For taxi tokens to be distributed by Pubwatch staff and an allocated amount per venue
2) All taxi firms used in the scheme must have a DBS and safeguarding training.
Bid Outline – The project will develop and deliver a range of partnership focused activities/resources aiming to:
· Reduce the risk of alcohol related harm to vulnerable individuals, and reduce levels of alcohol related violence and Anti Social Behaviour (ASB) experienced by the Night Time Economy (NTE) in the Corby Old Village area of the borough.
· Provide licensed premises staff with resources to identify and effectively tackle incidents of alcohol/drug related ASB and criminal activity within their premises.
· Reduce the impact of alcohol related ASB/violence within the wider Corby Old Village community.
Organisation - Support Northamptonshire
Community Watch – Days of Action
Wellingborough
£8,670.00
Robust Enforcement
Increases police accessibility and visibility, creates a hostile environment for criminals, tackling ASB and reduces the chance of burglary
N/A
Bid Outline – Deliver 6 Days of Action in priority wards of Hemmingwell, Queensway, Croyland, Swanspool, Victoria and Castlefieds/Ise wards. We also want to create 6 short films of each day to show community achievements and sustain action in these areas.
Organisation - St David's Church
Kidz Link
Northampton
£6,448.00
Prevention and Early Intervention
Diversion from criminal activity and possible exploitation and gangs. Building relationships with police, increasing reporting, engagement and understanding.
N/A
Bid Outline – We require funding for the growth and development of youth provision in St David’s ward. The objective is to offer diversionary activities to young people from 5 to 18 to divert them away from possible exploitation into gangs and criminal activity, but to also raise self-esteem/confidence and increase feelings of empowerment, and build community relations and increase public perception and confidence of policing.
Organisation - Kettering Street Pastors
Kettering Street Pastors
Kettering
£3,750
Victims at the Heart of Justice and Reduce Reoffending
Supports the Police managing vulnerable people in the night-time economy
Grant to be used for consumable items for vulnerable people and a contribution to the volunteer uniform to allow the volunteers to be identified.
Bid Outline -To provide volunteers with uniforms, consumables to give to vulnerable people such as flip flops, lollies etc.
Organisation - Care & Repair Northamptonshire
Safer at Home Northamptonshire
Countywide
£9,750
Prevention and Early Intervention
Helping to prevent vulnerable people becoming victims of crime
N/A
Bid Outline -‘Safer at Home Northamptonshire’ will aim to help reduce the likelihood of up to 200 vulnerable householders across Northamptonshire becoming victims of burglary or doorstep crime by arming them with crime prevention information and advice, empowering them to take the steps necessary to reduce their chances of becoming a victim.
Organisation - Emmanuel Church
Sweat & Respect Boxing Project
Eastern District, Northampton
£10,000
Prevention and Early Intervention
Preventative work to reduce the chance of people entering into crime and to reduce re-offending.
No charge young people. To ensure it’s a different client group to those that the Academy are sending to Proaction Martial Arts.
Bid outline – We propose to open a boxing club for young people in the Eastern District of Northampton. These are young people who are at risk of serious youth violence and gang crime. The club will run in conjunction with Northampton Academy in Weston Favell, during the “crime time” (3:30 to 5;00pm). The pilot will run one evening a week, with the aim of extending this to be a permanent, long-term fixture within the community.
Organisation - Rotary Club of Rushden
Prison Me! No Way! Crime & Safety Awareness Day
East Northants
£960
Prevention and Early Intervention
Raising awareness about the consequences of crime with young peole and trying to divert them
N/A
Bid outline -Small Grants – Delivering the Prison Me! No Way! Programme to the year 10 students at Rushden Academy in January.