A Cannock Chase school has been given £3,000 from the Police and Crime Commissioner’s People Power Fund to set up sports activity sessions throughout the school holidays.
Redhill Primary School has been awarded the funding to provide sports camps for its students who are aged between five and eleven during school holidays. These sports camps will be run by staff from Progressive Sports and will give students the opportunity to take part in a range of different activities to keep them active over the holiday periods.
As part of his commitment to local communities, Police and Crime Commissioner, Matthew Ellis, is providing £500,000 in 2016/17 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: “The £3,000 I have awarded will provide students at Redhill Primary School with a safe place to participate in sporting activities that will keep them entertained throughout the school holidays. It will also help to reduce anti-social behaviour that can occur during school holidays.
“The Commissioner’s People Power Fund puts half a million pounds back into local communities and is easy and simple to apply for.”
Paul Mobberley, a teacher at Redhill Primary School, said: “We are delighted to have been awarded £3,000 from the Police and Crime Commissioners People Power Fund to be able to provide sports activities for our Students during the school holidays. Redhill School already has strong links with Progressive Sports and the funding will enable such initiatives and successes to hopefully develop even further”
PCSO Laura Mancicius, who supported the schools application, said: “I am so pleased that Redhill Primary School have been awarded this grant. This money will be used to enhance the schools excellent community initiatives and provide positive engagement for the district’s young people”
The People Power Fund is one part of £2.5 million of Commissioner’s Community Funding for 2016/17. 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.
More details, including application forms and animated videos about the funds, are available at www.staffordshire-pcc.gov.uk/fund
