Local community safety funding available until 1st December 2011

The Home Office yesterday released the guidance notes and application process for the £10 million ‘Community Action against Crime Innovation Fund’ with £5m available for this year and a further £5m for 2012/13. The purpose of the Innovation Fund is to stimulate creative new approaches to tackling crime by empowering local groups to develop innovative projects to tackle local community safety problems.

The Home Office are keen to attract applications from grassroots community activists who are not traditional recipients of government grants and also for the voluntary sector to work more closely with community safety partnerships and other statutory agencies to drive and co-design and co-deliver services and community safety projects.

The Application Process

Applications can be made between £1,000 and £15,000 for each year (small grants) and for£15,001 and £50,000 for large grants. The application process is now open and runs until the 1st December 2011. The grant panels are locally based and have a rolling allocation process meaning that grants will be assessed in date order and awarded on a first come first served basis if they meet the awarding criteria. Therefore, I would recommend that if members are planning to apply for a grant then please start to do so as soon as possible.

Need any help? Contact the Neighbourhood and Home Watch Network (England & Wales) enquiry line on 0116 229 3118 or email enquiries@ourwatch.org.uk if you need any help with aspects of the funding bid which is NHW relevant. If you need assistance on the application process, please contact Community Development Foundation directly by calling 020 7833 1772 (option 3) or email Crime.Innovation@cdf.org.uk


http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/crime/partnerships/innovation-fund/
- posted by Shreekant on Wednesday, September 07, 2011

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