Time is running out for local community groups across Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent to get their applications in for the Commissioner’s People Power Fund.
The current round of funding opened on 1 March and will remain open until 14 April for local community groups with ideas to make their areas safer.
The fund supports local community safety activities across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent. These could include providing activities for young people to help reduce anti-social behaviour, mentoring programmes through to activities that reassure and improve the quality of life in local areas.
In the last three years over 280 local projects across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent have received People Power Funding.
Projects across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent that have benefited include:
- Horninglow Community Learning Centre who received £1,670 to enable the community to take advantage of technology by providing support and training on a 1-to-1 basis. Members of the community are now able to attend and learn new IT skills, enhance existing skills and develop their computer based knowledge.
- Lifeworks Staffordshire who have been awarded £2,000 to support its health and well-being club, which helps to prevent people being targeted because of their vulnerabilities and help them take the best paths in life. It also helps them to overcome the isolation often experienced by people with autism.
- Biddulph Community Safety Fund who received £2,708 to provide free crime prevention advice and gadgets to members of the public at weekly Friday morning surgeries held by a PCSO at a local supermarket.
- Eccleshall Football Club who received £1,650 to install CCTV cameras and an alarm system following a number of break-ins at the club grounds resulting in the theft of maintenance equipment and gas bottles. The new security measures have helped to prevent further break-ins, reducing the need for local officers to attend.
Police and Crime Commissioner Matthew Ellis said:
‘The Commissioner’s People Power Fund puts £300,000 back into local communities and is easy and simple to apply for. It’s about local ideas to sort out local issues like anti-social behaviour. If you’ve got a good idea, the People Power Fund may be able to help you achieve it.’
People Power applications need to be sponsored by the group’s Neighbourhood Police Officer or PCSO and will initially be assessed by the local Community Safety Partnership.
Apply today: www.staffordshire-pcc.gov.uk/fund
