Commissioner's Community Fund - Grant Recipients March 2014

The following grants were announced in July 2014.

1. Bishop’s Stortford Street Pastors have been awarded £700 to train and equip Volunteer Street pastors.

2. Hertfordshire Police Annual Community Cricket Match has been awarded £400 to host a cricket match between the police and a team from the community to enhance and develop community relations.

3. Future Living (based in Hertford) has been awarded £14,000 to provide a psycho social intervention programme for people across Hertfordshire suffering from addictions.

4. Herts Watch has been awarded £2,800 to print and distribute 40,000 door step stickers to discourage cold calling across Hertfordshire.

5. East Herts Neighbourhood Watch has been awarded £5,000 for Operation Stomp. This is an East Herts multi-agency project to help the more vulnerable members of our community stay safe.

6. Bishop’s Stortford Youth Project has been awarded £15,000 to train volunteers at a newly opened youth café to help troubled young people and to reduce anti-social behaviour.

7. Farming For All (Watford) has been awarded £16,770 to provide two Care Farm courses, for eight weeks, for up to 10 offenders and two returning offenders in Hertfordshire. Six courses have been run already and have proven highly successful in helping to steer people at high risk of offending away from crime by providing them with practical, life and employment skills..

8. Groundwork Hertfordshire has been awarded £16,624 to build on its ‘Green Aiders’ service in East Herts funded by PCC 2013/14 by extending the programme to Stevenage. Green Aiders helps vulnerable, elderly and disabled householders, whose gardens have fallen into a state of disrepair and are therefore at greater risk of being targeted for burglary or doorstep crime and/or which are causing them other safety problems such as trips and falls. 

9. Herts People First has been awarded £15,050 to further develop Keep Safe throughout Hertfordshire through funding new post of community coordinator. Keep Safe provides safe havens in public places for people with learning disabilities where they can feel confident to go for help and advice if they are being harassed, bullied or are simply feeling scared.

10. The Living Room in St Albans has been awarded £5,350 to expand its services to people with all forms of addictions. The funding will pay for increased staffing to help cope with the increased numbers of referrals.

11. University of Hertfordshire Students Union has been awarded £6,800 to deliver two awareness campaigns about student property burglaries and anti-drink-spiking.

12. Youth Connexions has been awarded £3,000 to offer young people, who have been excluded from mainstream schools, challenging diversionary activities in Hertsmere.

13. Druglink has been awarded £5,000 to set up a Coffee Cart service in Hertsmere Civic Offices to aid recovering drug and alcohol clients (Hertsmere). This will be match funded by Hertsmere CSP.

14. Pod53 in Stevenage has been awarded £24,000 to extend the provision of work experience/life skills training for young offenders by funding a new project manager. The project encourages them to gain work experience and develop a positive understanding of the local community. The CCF grant will pay for a project manager for its ‘Re-Shape’ project which will provide mentoring and educational training support for young offenders.