A Newcastle-under-Lyme Bowling Club has been given £2,000 from the Police and Crime Commissioner’s People Power Fund to prevent anti-social behaviour.
Clough Hall Bowling Club in Kidsgrove has been awarded funding to install security measures to prevent anti-social behaviour and damages to the premises.
The Bowling Club has suffered from disruption at the site in the past including an arson attack. Members are now hoping that their new security cameras will defer people from causing damage.
As part of his commitment to local communities, the Commissioner is providing £500,000 in 2015/16 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 local areas throughout Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent.
Mr Ellis said: “I am very pleased to have provided funding for the club to install a CCTV system to help keep the Bowling Club in Kidsgrove safe.”
“Measures like this sometimes are needed to stop anti-social behaviour and prevent disruption to local residents.
“The Commissioner’s People Power Fund puts half a million pounds back into local communities and is easy and simple to apply for.”
Micheal Nield, Honary Member at Clough Hall Bowling Club, said: “The bowling green at Clough Hall is in a woodland area and is quite remote. With the provision of the CCTV cameras it will help us to achieve our aims, which are: damage limitation to fencing, green, grounds, equipment and storage and security of members’ pavilion and toilet facilities.
“In the future we plan to improve the system and to get a BT landline installed at the pavilion which will enable us to monitor the bowling green and picture surrounds on our mobile phones. This is the system that works well with our neighbours at Kidsgrove Cricket Club and we would like to have this.”
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.
