A range of intervention projects across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight to prevent crime are to get underway, with more than £60,000 awarded to Isle of Wight-specific projects. Preventing gambling addictions, increasing street pastor patrols, more CCTV and helping people avoid scams are among the diversionary initiatives going ahead. The Police Commissioner, Donna Jones, has announced that 25 applications who applied in the 2nd round of her Emerging Needs Fund have been successful with a total investment of £454,081. On the Island, the Isle of Wight Youth Trust has been awarded £24,702 to help prevent youth crime and anti-social behaviour with a practical intervention to divert young people away from crime. The YOU Trust has been awarded £24,900 for a school intervention project to prevent youth crime on the Isle of Wight, as well as a further £25,000 to support the Dragonfly Project which provides domestic abuse and stalking awareness training. Artswork will receive £14,600 to help transform the lives of young people on the Isle of Wight through its creative Young Changemakers initiative. PCC Donna Jones said:
“My priority and promise to the public is to deliver more police and to ensure safer streets so this funding round was designed to promote crime reduction, support victims and reduce the demand on frontline policing. “This funding will empower our partners to go out and make a real difference in communities across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, to help prevent people from becoming victims of crime, stop crimes from happening in the first place, and reduce the reoccurence of crime. “Earlier this year, I announced funding of nearly £84K to fight rural crime in the first round of my Emerging Needs Fund. This second round enables a further range of providers to work with me in providing safer communities that can thrive instead of being crippled by crime.”
Other successful applications being funded by the 2nd round of the Commissioner’s Emerging Needs Fund on crime prevention include: Unloc – £24,500 Working with young people from Portsmouth with lived experience of violence to design youth-led social action projects to tackle youth violence Alabaré – £13,170 Gambling harm prevention sessions for vulnerable and homeless young people in Test Valle Yellow Brick Road – £24,898 Mentoring sessions for young people involved in anti-social behaviour (ASB) in Winchester Hatch Warren & Beggarwood Community Association – £13,790 Run sessions on knife crime, county lines awareness and ASB with young people who attend the youth club The Society of St James – £25,000 Weekly diversionary activities across Hampshire for those involved in the criminal justice system The Arukah Project – £24,255 Establishing a peer support model for young adults in Portsmouth to improve emotional stability Southampton Street Pastors – £20,680 Maintain and increase street pastor patrols in Southampton Catalyst Support – £25,000 Working to prevent cuckooing in Rushmoor Citizens Advice Portsmouth – £24,070 Helping people to avoid scams with workshops, consultations and online information Turnstyle – £4,940 Sports and educational programme to prevent youth crime in Rushmoor Winchester Street Reach – £10,200 Weekly targeted detached youth work in Highcliffe in Winchester Saints Foundation – £16,361 Project in partnership with HMP Winchester supporting offenders with resettlement into Southampton Motiv8 South – £23,125 Enhanced detached and outreach sessions in the Portsmouth area Southampton City Council – £25,000 Reducing domestic abuse offending amongst young males with a Young Person’s Male Engagement Worker Communities First Wessex – £24,536 To benefit participants of their Positive Pathways programme in Havant which supports disengaged individuals Havant Borough Council – £5,000 New boxing ring for Waterlooville Boxing Club to help young people develop their personal strengths and divert away from violent crime Children’s Services at Portsmouth City Council – £5,000 An insight hub module to help collate data and identify risk factors for young people at risk of serious violence and exploitation Rowlands Castle Parish Council – £1,175 Increase coverage of CCTV provision at the recreation ground Yellow Brick Road – £7,600 Deliver interactive seminars for students in Test Valley about knife crime and youth violence SoCo Music Project – £24,675 Music focused creative youth provision in Southampton The Prince’s Trust – £21,904 Emergency services-themed personal development programme for young people in Redbridge, Southampton
Blah blah youth blah blah initiative blah blah program
Did I miss something, I don’t see Isle of Wight mentioned anywhere.
Because you obviously didn’t read the article. Try again.
This is absolutely disgraceful. Most of those “projects” have got nothing to do with her as they are not about policing. Why should our council tax be hiked up to give money to schemes that we would not necessarily support? I for one will be refusing to pay any increase in the police precept next year. No more being used as a back door cash cow.
Paul just like Pop up Bob, the PCC doesn’t miss a chance to take the glory from others .. they are the only ones who’s day jobs do not get in the way of chasing newspaper space .. best delete and move on, both have under achieved during their terms ..
I agree, however I have gone one step further than commenting here. I have emailed this useless woman directly, objecting to this announcement and telling her exactly what I think of her performance. I have told her I will not pay any increase in the precept next year and she can take me to court if she doesn’t like it. No doubt she is still laughing, but it will be interesting to see what her response is…
I am fed up paying more money for a out of date service
Plod thesedays are only employed to protect the so called
Elite.
Plod cannot even stop vehicles parking on the pavement along
Regent Street in Shanklin and they have a cop shop up the road.
Lol
Aka the Gimmick PCC ..