A Staffordshire Moorlands cricket club has been awarded £1,000 from the Police and Crime Commissioner’s People Power Fund to help reduce crime.
Checkley cricket club has been awarded funding to increase security to prevent thefts.
The cricket club has previously suffered attempted break-ins and the funding will prevent further crime and damage.
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.
“Checkley cricket club is used by a wide range of people in the Staffordshire Moorlands area and safety at the club is important.”
Gavin Carr, Chairman of Checkley cricket club said: “We are really grateful for the Police and Crime Commissioner for making these grants available and awarding us this money.
“We have a wonderful facility at Checkley that we are very proud of and we want to ensure we protect our facilities for all members. We intend to use this grant to upgrade our security systems and make it a safe environment to the club members and the community.”
For further details about Checkley cricket club visit www.checkleycc.co.uk/.
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.
