A Stoke-on-Trent Park was given £840 from the Police and Crime Commissioner’s People Power Fund to provide an emergency services day.
Queen’s Park Partnership was awarded the funding to set up the event with Staffordshire Police. The Emergency Services day was held on 7 June at Longton Park and aimed to get the community engaged with their local policing team and to better understand the work of the police.
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: “It’s events like this which help the police to engage better with the community so that the public can better understand the work that they do. It also encourages local people to discuss issues that they may have in their area.”
Councillor Lilian Dodd, Former Treasurer and Committee Member said: “The committee are really grateful for the support from the Police and Crime Commissioner’s Fund which was used to support the Emergency Services Day on Sunday 7 June.
“The event was a great success with in excess of 6,000 visitors in the park throughout the day. It raised almost £5,000 for the Donna Louise Children’s Hospice.”
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.
