Call for Submissions: PCSP Small Grants Scheme (UK)

The aims of the PCSP are to improve community safety by tackling crime and anti-social behaviour and to support initiatives which seek to increase confidence in Policing.

Priorities

• To improve community safety by prioritising and addressing local community safety issues, tackling crime and anti-social behaviour through:
  • Utilising the partnership created by the statutory, elected, and independent/community membership of the PCSP to initiate and lead work to improve community safety and tackle ASB locally.
  • Working in partnership to develop outcome and locality focused interventions to address the most pressing crime types and behaviours impacting local community safety, as evidenced by local need, with appropriate targets and indicators so that impacts can be measured.
  • Drawing on best practice, promote early intervention and collaborating effectively to improve PCSP-supported projects and programmes that address the underlying causes of ASB, crime and the fear of crime in the community, including, where appropriate, a focus on changing behaviours.
  • Enhancing safety and feelings of safety, in particular for those who might be more vulnerable.
  • Engaging with partners in the district, to horizon scan to respond to and re-direct resources to respond to emerging local community safety issues.
  • Having cognisance of the Community Safety Framework in developing local plans, and providing a feedback loop to the Community Safety Board on local issues to inform community safety policy development – and vice versa;
  • Providing comprehensive community input into decision making processes about tackling actual and perceived anti-social behaviour and giving feedback to the community on the effectiveness of interventions on meeting outcomes.

Focus Areas

• ASB – Projects must demonstrate that they can help reduce ASB in areas where groups gather and engage in a range of negative behaviour eg diversionary activities, information sessions, awareness raising, consequences of negative behaviour and the impact on the victims.
• Drugs and Alcohol Abuse – To deliver initiatives which will raise awareness of the impact of drug and alcohol misuse within their communities. Identify local and emerging issues eg vaping and the long term damage it may have.
• Hate Crime – Raise awareness of the types of hate crime and hate incidents and the impact on the victim and the perpetrator. Encourage victims to report hate crime. Identify projects/activities that will integrate communities regardless of race, age, religion.
• Cyber Crime – To deliver initiatives to raise awareness of cybercrime to all ages including sextortion and scams, eg what is cybercrime, the impact it could have and how to recognise the signs of fraud and exploitation.
• Road safety – Safety awareness project to include road and pedestrian safety and the dangers associated with reckless driving and speed.
• Youth Engagement – Initiatives and diversionary activities to engage youth on the dangers associated with any of the above.

Funding Information

• Applicants may apply for any amount between £1000 and £5000.

For more information, visit Ards and North Down Borough Council.