The Police and Crime Commissioner, Donna Jones, is to launch her biggest grant funding opportunity to support local projects that reduce crime and anti-social behaviour.
Charities, councils and third-sector organisations will be invited to apply for funding from 1st April until 15th May. Successful applicants will receive the funding from 1st October 2025 until 31st March 2027.
The PCC launched her last Safer Communities Fund in 2022. This saw 44 projects being funded in the first year, 43 in the second year, and 37 in the third year. Key areas included tackling violence against women and girls, preventing youth crime, and tackling anti-social behaviour.
This year, the Commissioner will welcome applications that seek to tackle serious violence, prevent child exploitation, reduce crimes affecting women and girls, drive down anti-social behaviour, and reduce reoffending.
PCC Donna Jones says:
“My role as Police Commissioner is to look beyond frontline policing and to work alongside local projects and initiatives that prevent crime, reduce reoffending, support victims, and divert those at risk, especially young people, from entering the criminal justice system.
“I’ve seen first hand how third sector organisations have provided life-changing interventions that have transformed people’s lives and communities. Children involved in anti-social behaviour have been offered meaningful activities, repeat offenders have been rehabilitated and back into employment, and victims of exploitation have broken free. Crime and anti-social behaviour can’t take hold of communities when neighbourhoods are invested in.”
The Funding Network was launched by the Police Commissioner earlier this month to provide a streamlined grant application process for local providers. Organisations will need to be a member of the Funding Network to be eligible to apply for the Safer Communities Fund.
The total amount of funding available will be announced at the end of March.
For more information and to apply, visit https://www.hampshire-pcc.gov.uk/funding/funding-network.
It is all lies, nothing ever changes with her in charge. Why do we need a grant, when quite simply we need more actual police. We pay a precept for police, so where the hell are they.
Ah, the quiet road to privatisation of the police force. Outsource a few departments and divert funding, that way when people complain about fewer bobbies they can then reach into our pockets and help themselves via taxation. The monies go to private enterprise. Did we expect any less from a Tory with one eye on the Mayorship that they say they don’t want?
Great idea, get the Numpty’s off our streets,
whilst at it sort out the speeding problem on the island
Speeding is rife!
Change the record, you sound like a BBC repeat.
Nothing wrong with a Beeb repeat.
The first responsibility of a Police and Crime Commissioner is to hold the Chief Constable to account for how they are policing the area an fulfilling the Police and Crime Plan. It would be nice to see some evidence of this rather than the constant photo-opportunities afforded by offering taxpayers money to organisations over which the PCC has no jurisdiction.