The Hertfordshire Community Foundation is offering Police and Crime Commissioner’s Action Fund for projects that are helping to reduce crime and make Hertfordshire a safer place to live.

The aim of the Police and Crime Commissioner’s Fund is to support community and voluntary initiatives which will reduce crime and make Hertfordshire a safer place to live by helping to deliver the priorities of the Community Safety and Criminal Justice Plan for Hertfordshire.

The fund is made up from funds recovered under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) and empowers local groups to find solutions to community safety problems.

Priorities

The four priorities and the activities which they include are:

Building on success

• Crime reduction: early intervention and prevention
• Tackling serious violence
• Tackling the misuse of drugs and alcohol
• Preventing fraud
• Serious and organized crime and cybercrime
• Safeguarding vulnerable people
• Tackling modern slavery
• Reducing reoffending

Putting victims at the centre

• Preventing and protecting victims
• Tackling hate crime
• Domestic abuse
• Restorative justice

Public focus

• Local initiatives
• Rural crime
• Volunteering opportunities

Business sense

• Partnership working
• Working with responsible businesses

Funding Information

Grants Available: Up to £5,000

Who can apply?

• The fund is open to voluntary and community groups, charitable and not for profit organizations, including uniformed youth groups. Community Safety Partnerships and Parish, Town and District Councils can also apply. The Commissioner particularly wants to support innovative projects which have sprung from local collaborations and partnerships and can make a lasting difference to communities in terms of safety.
• Size of group: this fund prioritizes smaller local initiatives. Charitable groups with an income of more than £1m will not normally be considered.

Eligibility Criteria

• You are a not for profit voluntary or community group, active in your local community, with a written constitution or set of rules. Alternatively, you are a Community Safety Partnership (with Terms of Reference), a Parish, Town or District Council.
• This set of rules has at least the name of your group, its aims or purpose, objects, a dissolution clause for the group, a list of Trustees/Committee members and Trustee/Committee members' signature. Please be aware we do require the organization to have at least three independent trustees/management committee members.
• Your organization has its own bank account with at least two independent signatories and all the relevant Equal Opportunities and Safeguarding Policies required for your work. (for CSPs there would be a nominated council bank account)
• You are based in Hertfordshire or can show specifically how people in Hertfordshire benefit from your activities.

For more information, visit Hertfordshire Community Foundation.