A Staffordshire Moorlands Village Hall has been awarded £1,450 from the Police and Crime Commissioner’s People Power Fund to help prevent anti-social behaviour.
Alton Village Hall has been awarded funding to increase the security around the hall.
The Alton Village Hall has previously suffered from incidents such as young adults breaking CCTV cameras and an assault in the car park.
As part of his commitment to local communities, the Commissioner is providing £500,000 in 2014/15 through the People Power Fund in the form of grants of between £100 and £3,000.
The fund is supporting locally-driven community safety activities in communities throughout Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent.
Mr Ellis said: “I have significantly increased the funding that local areas in Staffordshire have to make their communities safer.
“The Commissioner’s People Power Fund puts half a million pounds back into local communities and is easy and simple to apply for.
“Alton Village Hall has suffered from numerous crimes which have been very costly to them, I hope the extra security will allow residents to feel safer in the community and will prevent any further crime.”
Alan Dingley, Secretary of Alton Village Hall Management Committee said: “This funding will allow us to buy LED security lights and extra CCTV cameras which will help to improve security at the village hall and will make the residents in the area feel safer.”
For further details about Alton Village Hall visit www.altonstaffs.co.uk/community/village-hall/.
The window for the next round of applications for People Power Funding opens on Sunday 1 March and runs until Tuesday 14 April.
People Power applications need to be sponsored by the group’s local Neighbourhood Police Officer or Police Community Support Officer. More details, including application forms and an animated video about the fund, are available now at www.staffordshire-pcc.gov.uk/fund.
The People Power Fund is one part of £2.5 million of Commissioner’s Community Funding for 2014/15. The Commissioner’s Locality Deal Fund has allocated money to local areas through working in partnership with local district and borough councils. Meanwhile, the Commissioner’s Proceeds of Crime Fund is seeing 100 per cent of funding received by Staffordshire Police going back into local communities, through grants of between £3,000 and £15,000. It is made up of money seized from criminals as Staffordshire Police continue to strip offenders of their assets.
Successful projects in all three funding streams will deliver what’s important to local people based on the four priorities set out in the Commissioner’s Safer, Fairer, United Communities Strategy – tackling the root causes of crime through early intervention, supporting victims and witnesses better, reducing reoffending and increasing public confidence.
