Commissioner's Safety Fund - 2024-2025

This grants scheme channels funding into community projects that help reduce the risk of crime and abuse and increase public safety.

There is £400,000 available for the 2024/2025 financial year and you can apply for up to £10,000 for a twelve month project (depending on the round).  This maximum exists to support as many projects and initiatives as possible.

The Commissioner is keen to hear from organisations that can make a meaningful difference in the lives of those residing in Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland.

There will be two funding rounds for the 2024/2025 year, being either a general or specialist round. 

Funding Round Details:

RoundOpening DateClosing Date

 1.      General

8th August 2024

5th September 2024 (5pm)

 2.      TBA

TBA

TBA

 

Funding awarded for 2024/2025:

 

Round 1 (General)
 
ORGANISATION
 
NAME OF PROJECT
 
PROJECT SUMMARY
 GEOGRAPHICAL
AREA
 AMOUNT OF FUNDING
LMA Youth and Community Development Ltd  Youth Club 2

To deliver youth club sessions and activities for young people such as boxing, kickboxing and wrestling training, PlayStation 5 gaming, American Pool and table tennis. The project also offers weekly mentorship, motivational talks and once a month workshops.

The aim is to enable young people to challenge energy in a healthy way, develop self-control, encourage positive relationships with others, to encourage character development, positive choices, and supporting young peoples’ futures by addressing any issues they are facing

City  £10,000.00
LMA Youth and Community Development Ltd Lives Not Knives 3 To deliver kickboxing sessions aimed at individuals aged 18 plus and boxing for individuals ages 16 plus. The aim is to encourage character development, positive choices, and supporting young peoples’ futures, alongside a focus on improving physicality and technical skills.  City  £10,000.00
LMA Youth and Community Development Ltd Girls Empowerment

To provide a weekly safe space with activities such as journaling, fitness classes, and arts and crafts for young girls to express themselves freely, without judgment at the LMA Academy gym.

The project will promote the development of healthy habits, teaching participants how to build positive friendships and adult relationships. Activities such as arts and crafts, fitness classes, self-defence, and day trips will be used to foster emotional and physical well-being. In addition to regular activities the project will teach self-help techniques and provide guidance on emergency situations.

City £9,137.99
Guru Nanak Gurdwara Football Club GNGFC Cricket Champions: changing young lives

This project will recruit at least 20 at risk children and young people from refugee backgrounds and 20 at risk children and young people through Leicester City Council Youth Offending Team and provide marketing material to local schools with relevant catchment areas (and community organisations).

The project will also deliver Saturday morning cricket games, train five new/young coaches and provide workshops and talks on antisocial behaviour knife crime, online safety, and hate crime (including role play for empathy skills, bullying, healthy eating and emotional health).

The aim is to reduce antisocial behaviour and provide participants with new skills, knowledge and enjoyment.

City Centre,
Saffron,
Braunstone and
Spinney Hills

£10,000.00
St Matthews Big Local St Matthews supporting a safer city through Sports Engagement Year

The project will provide open access for young people across the City with an additional four hours of daily organised and structured sports activities in the daytime during School half term/s and school summer holidays and late-night floodlit football on Friday nights for 20 weeks during the winter months.

The aim is to reduce antisocial behaviour and provide positive, safe and structured activities, increasing trust of young people and building positive relationships.

City
(St Matthews)

£9,990.90
Street Doctors Ltd Leicestershire Street Doctors

To deliver 25 training sessions on what to do if someone is bleeding and what to do if someone is knocked out, for 11-25 year olds in the Leicester city area. The sessions will cover:

  • The true medical consequences of street violence. 
  • How to approach the scene when someone has been injured and how to contact and work with emergency services.  
  • A repeatable process to safely help someone who has been stabbed or knocked out using emergency first aid.  The most common mental health consequences of experiencing violence and how to manage them.

City

£7,500.00
Leicester City Community Trust Ltd (Leicester City in the Community) Respectful Relationships

To deliver a comprehensive Respectful Relationships intervention to identified young people across nine secondary schools in Leicester and Leicestershire.  This will be through 1:1 sessions, small group work and school assemblies and workshops. The intervention will include topics such as:  

  • Understanding yourself   
  • Communication Skills   
  • Boundaries and Consent   
  • Building Empathy and Respect   
  • Digital Relationships and Social Media   
  • Healthy Intimate Relationships

City & County

£9,950.00
The Saffires Project Street Outreach

To fund the salary of the part time Street Outreach Manager to provide coordinated outreach sessions in locations in Leicester where street sex work takes place.

The aim of the project is to build relationships and reduce the vulnerability of women to crime and violence and facilitating them to exit sex work.

Leicester Cultural Quarter

£10,000.00
The Saffires Project Parlour Outreach

To fund the Parlour Outreach Manager who is responsible for visiting women working in massage parlours and saunas throughout Leicester, offering holistic support and signposting to specialist services that women struggle to access.

The Parlour Outreach Manager will distribute creative ‘Inspire bags’ and Wellbeing Packs during fortnightly Parlour Outreach which include personal alarms, wellbeing booklet with physical and mental health/mindfulness reflections, signposting information to relevant services, mental wellbeing gifts e.g. creative activities, affirmation cards, a journal, books, sweet treats, hot drink supplies and sweet treats, hand sanitiser and sexual health supplies

City

£10,000.00
Antoin Akpom Achievements Foundation AAA Foundation Anti-Social Initiative Project

The purpose of this project is to reduce antisocial behaviour in Beaumont Leys by addressing root causes through trauma-informed care, behavioural guidance, skills development, and education.

The project will deliver community outreach awareness campaigns in Beaumont Leys Community Shopping Centre and local schools, Trauma-Informed Workshops focused on trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), behavioural workshops and a mentorship program, skills development workshops and  Intervention Workshops on the consequences of ASB.

Beaumont Leys
Leicester

£10,000.00
Rose Alchemy CIC Wake Up & Bloom

To support young girls and women aged 14-25 in Leicester, particularly those in Rowlatts Hill area, who are impacted by or at risk of trauma and abuse.

Delivery will consist of monthly workshops and bi-weekly 1:1 support sessions at the Golden Token Youth Hub with the aim of providing education, tools, and empowerment to break harmful cycles of trauma and build healthier, more prosperous lives.

East Leicester

£10,000.00
Team Hub CIC Team Hub on the Streetz II

The project provides detached outreach on the streets to young people aged 10-16 in the following areas:

  • St Oswald Road after school
  • Shops on Aikman Avenue after school     
  • Aikman Avenue Flats     
  • Support Hot spot area when/where needed such as New Parks Library/ Elgin Avenue/ Glazebrook Avenue

The purpose of this is to build positive relationships, de-escalate any incidents and sign post young people to support and diversionary activities in the area.

West Leicester

£9,963.00
Go-Getta CIC (in partnership with H.O.P.E. Training and Leadership CIC) Adolescent Domestic Abuse (ADA) Project

The project delivers workshops to frontline practitioners and parents and carers in relation to adolescent domestic abuse. The purpose is to raise awareness, effective support strategies and equip them to spot the signs of adolescent domestic abuse

Leicester,
Leicestershire & Rutland

£9,990.00

The Braunstone Foundation
(t/a b-inspired)

The Grove Community Hunb - Girls Only Activities

The project will deliver two female-only sessions per week, during term-time consisting of girls only football and girls only youth sessions including arts, crafts, gaming and a safe space. The aim of this project is to make girls feel safer and reduce antisocial behaviour.

Braunstone and Rowley Fields, Braunstone Town, Leicester Forest East, Braunstone Frith

£9,860.00

Safe Families for Children

Safe Families - Leicester Care Leavers

The project is to fund a Family Support Manager to support care leavers and place trained volunteers with consenting care leavers to help identify key goals and a support plan as well as building a relationship and offering emotional, social and practical support.

City and County

£10,000.00

Zinthiya Ganeshpanchan Trust

Domestic Abuse Surgeries

This project will deliver monthly surgeries to support women who are facing abuse or at the risk of abuse in targeted areas of Evington, Thurmaston, Western Park and Thurnby Lodge. The project will provide practical support with referrals, completing hardship fund applications or housing applications and support with securing emergency accommodation.

City

£10,000.00

Spinney Hill Drugs, Alcohol and Addiction Support

The Recovery Gym

This project delivers structured gym sessions led by qualified trainers, focusing on the physical rehabilitation of individuals recovering from addiction. The project also offers a women’s support group providing a safe space for women to share their experiences and access relevant support services.

East Leicester

£9,940.00

National Space Centre

Alternative Space

This project delivers an alternative provision pathway, which is a practical activity programme to create a positive learning experience for young people who might find it difficult to engage with more ‘traditional’ provision and ways of working.  They will be provided with a full programme of STEM content, mentoring, and light-touch initiatives, giving them the opportunity to gain transferable skills and relevant AQA Unit Awards.

This project also delivers a mentoring pathway plan, a more intensive, tailored, work experience programme.  Participants will gain experience working with different departments at the Centre to understand the skills needed to work in the space industry.  They will undertake training on how to structure and deliver a presentation and how to communicate with the public.  They will develop transferable employability skills and receive careers advice during the programme

Leicester City, Oadby and Wigston and Charnwood

£9,719.00

The Centre Project

The Freedom Youth Club Community Hub

This project provides open access youth club sessions, (prioritising refugees and asylum seekers) including activities such as pool, table tennis, gaming, sports, advocating for the young people and signposting to local support services.

City

£10,000.00

Charnwood 20-20 operating as Love4Life

Safety and Empowerment for Girls

This project delivers Healthy Relationships and Online Safety/Social Media workshops for Year 9 girls and workshops on Sexual Harassment and Consent, Empowering Assertiveness and Boundaries to girls aged 16 plus. The aim is to ensure girls can understand what healthy relationships look like and are able to advocate for themselves positively as well as having the power to make positive choices for themselves, and understand their self-worth, and have more confidence in their decision making.

City

£10,000.00

Wesley Hall Community Centre

Wesley Hall Youth Club

This project provides structured youth sessions (group and one to one sessions) to young people aged 11-16, including sports and arts, along with directed intervention to promote communal understanding between different sections of the community. The aim is to reduce antisocial behaviour, encourage community cohesion and support positive behavioural shifts such as increased self-confidence, enhanced team-building skills, or a greater ability to handle negative influences.

East Leicester - Spinney Hills, Stoneygate and North Evington

£9,956.00