Commissioner calls on people to apply for funds
LANCASHIRE’S Police and Crime Commissioner Clive Grunshaw has called on more community groups to apply to his Community Action Fund as the total invested into local projects that help local organisations improve their neighbourhoods reached a major milestone.
Since launching in 2013, the Community Action Fund has seen over £500k invested into projects across Lancashire, helping groups tackle local concerns and deliver the Commissioner’s key priorities.
In 2019/20, £150,000 is available for community groups to bid for funding to deliver projects that tackle crime and reoffending, build safe, confident communities and support vulnerable people and victims of crime in the county.
The Commissioner visits a number of the projects the Community Action Fund supports and to see first-hand the difference that they make across Lancashire.
From offering diversionary activity which help ensure people do not get involved in criminal activity such as antisocial behaviour, protecting vulnerable people and helping to ensure they don’t become victims of crime and generally strengthening communities across Lancashire by bringing people together, there are a wide range of projects which have and continue to be supported by the Commissioner through the Community
Action Fund.
Earlier in 2019 the fund relaunched, solely utilising the proceeds of crime which have been removed from criminals and are now being reinvested back into the community.
The Commissioner said: “It’s striking that since the Community Action Fund launched, over half a million pounds has been provided to local groups who are making our county a better place to live, work and visit.
“They deliver great value for money for relatively small investment, help me achieve the priorities in my Police and Crime Plan and ultimately, make the county safer.
“By utilising the proceeds of crime and giving this money back to the communities that are affected by criminal behaviour, it means we are able to invest into the people of Lancashire and do something positive with this money.
“This fund recognises that the people who live and breathe the work they do in our communities have great ideas and I’m keen for as many as possible to apply and continue applying and continue to encourage them to visit my website, look at the criteria and get in touch if you need more information.”
For more information visit https:// www.lancashire-pcc.gov.uk/our-money/ grant-funding/community-action-fund/