• Organisation: Solace (Cheltenham Borough Council)
• Project name: Solace
• Priority Type: Creating Safer Communities
• Total Investment: 42890.00
• Awarded: 2022/2023, 2023/2024
• Location: Countywide

About the project:

At the current time Solace has an existing set of aims and objectives as described above and the work which we undertake is described below: On top of the aims and objectives set out above, we have an important and highlighted role in assisting in disrupting organised crime groups (OCG) and organised criminality.

This has been demonstrated by us quickly gaining some extensive and wide reaching conditions on injunctions as a result of violent incidents within communities, whereby people may have been too frightened to support criminal matters, but our extensive knowledge of the use of civil legislation has quickly yielded some strong results.

One area where we also have a large role to play, is ASB within our town and city centres. In both urban areas there is a level of ASB associated with those more complex in nature people within our communities with a strong link to ASB from those begging, pretending to be homeless and ASB from levels of addiction.

• Organisation: Rodborough Parish Council
• Project name: Acquisition of a moveable Vehicle Activated Sign (VAS) to reduce traffic speeds on Rodborough's hills and lanes
• Priority Type: Creating Safer Communities
• Total Investment: 1000.00
• Awarded: 2022/2023
• Location: Stroud

About the project:

The key aim is to inform motorists of quite how fast they are driving so that some of them will slow down to below the legal speed limit. Parish councillors and Community Speed Watch members have already signed up to help move the VAS every 10-14 days to new locations throughout the parish and GCC Highways has formally signed off the key locations where we propose this VAS will be sited.

• Organisation: Community Speed Watch (Stoke Orchard and Tredington Parish Council)
• Project name: Community Speed Reduction Project
• Priority Type: Creating Safer Communities
• Total Investment: 385.99
• Awarded: 2022/2023
• Location: Cheltenham and Tewkesbury

About the project:

The aims of our project are: To reduce speeding within the villages of Stoke Orchard and Tredington to create a safer community, to involve and engage local residents, businesses and schools in our principal aim, to work collaboratively with our local police and RSTM to strengthen our constabulary and to give our local communities a voice in policing through our collaborative partnerships.

The Community Speed Watch (which comprises ten full members) wish to apply for funding for two hand held speed detection devices ( one for each village). Use of the devices would form part of our speed reduction activities. Currently, the devices owned by Tewkesbury police are shared amongst a number of parishes and so our activity is compromised by wait times and time limits on loan of equipment.

• Organisation: Brizen Young People’s Centre
• Project name: Brizen Youth Centre Summer Workshop
• Priority Type: Creating Safer Communities
• Total Investment: 1500.00
• Awarded: 2022/2023
• Location: Cheltenham

About the project:

The aim is to reduce antisocial behaviour, create a sense of community and to provide support to vulnerable young people and their families who otherwise would not have access to this, outside of education. There will be 18 sessions delivered by qualified youth workers, each to 20 people. Scoping work will take place to identify those who will most benefit from the sessions that will be delivered.

• Organisation: Circles South West
• Project name: Circles of Support and Accountability
• Priority Type: Creating Safer Communities
• Total Investment: 10000.00
• Awarded: 2022/2023, 2023/2024
• Location: Countywide

About the project:

The vision of Circles of Support & Accountability is 'no more victims' of sexual abuse. Its mission is to enhance public safety by assisting those who sexually offend, and are at risk of doing so again, to self-manage inappropriate thoughts and behaviours, reintegrate safely into the community and lead responsible lives. The Circles model is a community-based approach which utilises local Volunteers to hold accountable and support sexual harm causers.

• Organisation: Gloucestershire Counselling Service
• Project name: Victims of Domestic and Sexual Violence
• Priority Type: Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls
• Total Investment: 10000.00
• Awarded: 2022/2023, 2023/2024
• Location: Countywide

About the project:

The project aims to create a fund specifically to support victims of domestic and sexual violence to have high-quality care, supporting them to talk about what has happened to them and begin to re-build their lives. The project aims to provide support for victims in crisis, providing a safe confidential and neutral space, outside whatever home life dynamic they are existing in, to process emotions relating to their current situation, working with highly experienced councillors.

We will provide a vital release for anxiety and depression whilst supporting the development of resilience and coping mechanisms so that our clients can have the best chance of surviving. Support will lower the potential risk of increased suicides, domestic breakdown, child abuse and life limiting chaos. This project will support individuals to better connect with people and communities around them

• Organisation: The Cotswolds Dogs and Cats Home (RSPCA Cotswolds, Gloucester & District)
• Project name: Pet Retreat
• Priority Type: Creating Safer Communities
• Total Investment: 10000.00
• Awarded: 2022/2023, 2023/2024
• Location: Cotswold

About the project:

The Cotswolds Dogs & Cats Home (CDCH) has developed a pilot pet fostering service to help individuals fleeing domestic abuse who are apprehensive to leave their beloved pets. Financial assistance for veterinary treatment will also be provided while the pet is in our care giving peace of mind to the pet owner. This will include neutering and microchipping if needed

• Organisation: GayGlos
• Project name: Hate Crime and Incidents - GayGlos
• Priority Type: Supporting Victims and Reducing Reoffending
• Total Investment: 5000.00
• Awarded: 2022/2023, 2023/2024
• Location: Countywide

About the project:

This is not a new project but a continuation of work tackling inequalities that impact on minority groups through Hate Crime and Incidents. Nor is it a stand alone initiative. We have been working closely with the constabulary and other agencies for many years. Whilst our specific remit as GayGlos is support for people who identify as LGBTQ+ we have always done this in the context of equalities and inclusiveness in the round.

Having been involved in the field of Hate Crime since before Gay, Trans and Disability were recognised as strands of hate crime we have extensive knowledge and understanding of the subject which we have been able to bring to this agenda for over 25 years working closely with the constabulary and other agencies to raise the profile of hate crime and incidents in the county. We have been key contributors to the development of the current 2021-25 strategy and the development, updating and delivery of awareness training in the county. We are keen to continue to contribute to this important area of work driving forward the strategic objectives within the strategy.

• Organisation: Middle of the Hill Community Group
• Project name: The Community Hub at Nouncells Cross
• Priority Type: Creating Safer Communities
• Total Investment: 1500.00
• Awarded: 2022/2023
• Location: Stroud

About the project:

The funding is requested to help sustain the work of the Community Group, and continue to run the community hub, which enables a close collaboration between residents and the Stroud Neighbourhood Policing Team to tackle anti-social behaviour and create a safer community space.

Our Foodhub, which is expanding in to a community cafe, provides a focal point for the community and a place to meet the PCSO, the beat officers as well as other professionals who can provide support around debt advice, housing issues, addiction and substance use and money management. Many of our visitors and neighbours have complex needs (often rooted in Adverse Childhood Experiences) and face a range of challenges which can all be contributing factors to offending, re-offending and anti-social behaviour which impacts on the whole community.

We aim, in a small way, to help support neighbours but also, perhaps leading to a greater impact, provide a platform and safe and trusted space for agencies such as the police to meet and interact with local residents (often called hard to reach) helping our partner agencies to more effectively meet their aims and objectives and strength their work.

Our community room is a thriving community hub that vulnerable people feel happy to come to and we know that they are more likely to engage in that space as it is their space and in their community. The steering committee of MHCG is deeply rooted within the community and well placed to be a vehicle for facilitating communication between the police, the Neighbourhood Warden and the Dystric Council's ASB officer and people who live in the area.

This is one of the key aims of the newly established Community Partnership Forum (Terms of Reference attached) and which makes our attendance at events the police have organised and invited us to so successful.

We know that Inspector Cruise and Sgt Weller value us as partners in the joint effort to improve outcomes at Nouncells Cross, tackle crime and the causes of crime. Keeping the community hub running (which opens its doors three times per week and will soon be serving food that can be eaten on the premises) is central to community cohesion we are developing and already seeing the benefits of. The wider area is diverse, with a stigma legacy attached to Nouncells Cross, and the work of the community group and the community hub is breaking down barriers, building relationships, strengthening the community and its relationship with statutory agencies.

Costs for us in maintaining our communication channels relate to our quarterly newsletters (which the PCSO and Neighbourhood Warden is always invited to contribute to) which in 2020-2021 cost us GBP230 in ink alone, so with adding in increased community engagement we would predict our printing costs including recycled paper to be approx. GBP500 per annum. As an organisation running a community hub handling food and enabling local residents to be involved in gardening work our public liability insurance has increased to in the region of GBP300 per year and we cannot operate without this.

Furthermore, in order to sustain the food hub and community cafe (through our annual subscription to Fare Share Southwest) we need to spend GBP700 pa. In addition, the Community Forum Partnership wish to undertake a thorough Secure by Design (SBD) review of the whole estate (which has a challenging geographical and topographical layout) to look, in a holistic way and with community engagement, and the current position and how arrangements and measures can be strengthened to create a safer community space in order to reduce anti-social behaviour and support PCC priorities, strengthening the work of the local police.

We are requesting a contribution of GBP1500 towards this survey, to support the accompanying community engagement and as a contribution toward the resulting improvements that may arise from this (alongside funds Stroud District Council will provide).

• Organisation: The Boys’ Brigade Gloucestershire Battalion
• Project name: Train for the Future
• Priority Type: Creating Safer Communities
• Total Investment: 3750.00
• Awarded: 2022/2023, 2023/2024
• Location: Countywide

About the project:

The aim of this project is to train leaders with the skills necessary to ensure the future viability of our organisation in Gloucestershire, and through the up-skilling of leaders to be able to offer a broader range of activities to both current and new members, that will continue to divert young people away from getting involved in negative and destructive activities.

The activities will include training in paddle sports, expedition and outdoor leadership, DofE leadership skills and D1 qualifications to allow young leaders to drive minibuses. We plan to achieve this through ongoing and regular communication with all leaders and the signposting of all relevant training opportunities with local providers and others. We have identified the training providers who can cover all of the training needs and will be working with them to accommodate our requirements.

• Organisation: Suicide Bereaved Community (SBC)
• Project name: Suicide Bereaved Community 2022-23
• Priority Type: Supporting Victims and Reducing Reoffending
• Total Investment: 1584.92
• Awarded: 2022/2023, 2023/2024
• Location: Countywide

About the project:

Suicide Bereaved Community will provide opportunities for those bereaved by suicide - an experience that can bring its own set of difficulties often resulting in loneliness and isolation - to connect with others who, because they share it, fully understand their experience.

We empower our community to connect with each other via quarterly organised activity-based events. This will be augmented through our online social media group and our website (www.suicidebereaved.org) which provides information for as well as invites contributions from community members. Contact can also be made at any time by phone

• Organisation: Home-Start Stroud and Gloucester
• Project name: Nailsworth Family Support
• Priority Type: Supporting Victims and Reducing Reoffending
• Total Investment: 5000.00
• Awarded: 2022/2023, 2023/2024
• Location: Stroud

About the project:

The work that we do aims to support families at grass roots levels to address issues such as debt, parenting, social isolation, and poor mental health which are contributory factor's to young people's antisocial behaviour in the town.

We run a term time Arkell Family fun group which is a free drop in group for parents of children under the age of 5 years of age. This rurally isolated and deprived community is thriving with the support that Home-Start offers and is attended by 30-40 families every week.

• Organisation: Aylburton Parish Council
• Project name: ANPR for Aylburton
• Priority Type: Empowering Local Communities
• Total Investment: 1500.00
• Awarded: 2022/2023
• Location: Forest of Dean

About the project:

The aim of the ANPR for Aylburton project is to improve the quality of life in Aylburton by reducing the number of speeding vehicles that drive through it. The project involves the purchase, installation and maintenance of an ANPR camera with radar for Aylburton High Street (A48) to act as a traffic calming measure.

The camera will be part of a countywide network of ANPR Surveillance Camera Commission accredited cameras. Connected to dedicated computer software the camera will gather evidence of speeding vehicles, enabling the police to identify speeding motorists.

The presence of the yellow camera will help reduce the number of speeding vehicles after entry into the village. The camera's visibility, together with associated signage and other traffic calming measures, will help reduce speeding throughout the length of Aylburton High Street. Aylburton Parish Council will be responsible for the costs of the ongoing maintenance of the camera and subscription to the data collection system.

The council has made provision in its budget to cover these costs in future years. The camera is a key element of the council's wider road safety work, which includes other traffic calming measures such as a Community Speed watch Group, Vehicle Activated Speed Signs and signage which will warn of surveillance and urge motorists to drive within the speed limit.

• Organisation: Gloucester City Mission
• Project name: Renew Training Centre
• Priority Type: Empowering Local Communities
• Total Investment: 5000.00
• Awarded: 2022/2023, 2023/2024
• Location: Gloucester

About the project:

The next stage in our restructure is to open an Education and Training Centre to run courses and sessions for clients to enable them to become more independent, and as the local authority provide accommodation for them, to offer them opportunities to develop skills.

• Organisation: Forest Fighting Fit
• Project name: Mindset
• Priority Type: Targeting the Causes of Crime
• Total Investment: 1000.00
• Awarded: 2022/2023
• Location: Forest of Dean

About the project:

We teach fighting and fitness to members in a fun yet disciplined manner which encourages self respect/ respect for others/ legal responsibilities of the use of force. The club promotes honesty/ teamwork and fitness to students. We provide a safe learning environment and promote commitment/ performance and attendance.

• Organisation: Berkeley Town Council
• Project name: Berkeley Town Council Youth Club Provision
• Priority Type: Creating Safer Communities
• Total Investment: 5000
• Awarded: 2022/2023, 2023/2024
• Location: Stroud

About the project:

Youth Club Provision by Berkeley Town Council.

• Organisation: The Door Youth Project
• Project name: The Door working with neighbourhood police to support young people
• Priority Type: Creating Safer Communities
• Total Investment: 5000.00
• Awarded: 2022/2023, 2023/2024
• Location: Cotswold and Stroud

About the project:

The objectives of this project is : To build the existing relationship Door Youth teams have with neighbourhood police in the communities around our 6 hubs. (Stroud, Dursley, Cam, Avening, Stonehouse, Wotton-under Edge, to increase police capacity and enable them to get closer to communities, for our youth workers to continue to participate in regular PCSO patrols and run joint Fearless sessions in Secondary schools in which we operate to help divert young people away from risky anti- social behaviour and avoid their involvement with criminal justice system, continue to develop a meaningful sharing of intelligence between the 2 teams, enable young people to change their perception of the police because they know and trust Door staff and seeing us working together sends an important message of trust, assist neighbourhood police to identify flash / hot spot areas and assist police to provide a defusing capacity on the ground during times of crisis. 6) To work with the police in secondary schools , on initiatives such as the joint knife crime, fearless workshop we ran in Rednock School in Dursley with PC Mark Weedon after the Josh Hall tragedy in 2021, to work with schools and neighbourhood police to identify school refusers, and establish mentoring programmes designed to help young people realise their potential and avoid risky behaviours .

• Organisation: The Friendship Cafe
• Project name: St James City Farm & Riding School Local Improvement Volunteers
• Priority Type: Targeting the Causes of Crime
• Total Investment: 9750.00
• Awarded: 2022/2023, 2023/2024
• Location: Gloucester

About the project:

We aim to use the platform of the well established City Farm and Riding School to create a project whereby volunteers can get involved with improving the site / surroundings. We will be enlisting volunteers to support us to make improvements which will encourage a sense of community and pride.

Through buying basic DIY materials and under supervision of a qualified staff member, we will brighten up the area. We anticipate groups of young people will get involved as well as local residents and other volunteers, and they will paint, clean, clear, varnish and replace and refurbish the site and maintain the paths and plants so that it looks more welcoming and at the same time get them involved.

• Organisation: Slimbridge Parish Council
• Project name: Slimbridge Community Camera
• Priority Type: Creating Safer Communities
• Total Investment: 1500.00
• Awarded: 2022/2023
• Location: Stroud

About the project:

Slimbridge Parish Council (SPC) have a Quiet Lanes working group with the aims to reduce traffic speed and promote safer road use in the parish. The proposed activity is to purchase an ANPR camera to assist in lowering the speed limit and prevent crime within the parish. The ANPR camera would be located on

• Organisation: Brendan’s Bridge
• Project name: Barton Model
• Priority Type: Creating Safer Communities
• Total Investment: 5000
• Awarded: 2022/2023, 2023/2024
• Location: Gloucester

About the project:

To establish a collaborative programme of positive activity for young people in the Kingsway area of Gloucester. This strategy would incorporate: Detached Youth Work working with young people on the streets and engaging them in activities and conversations around their individual and group needs, Youth Club provision encouraging young people hanging around on the streets to attend a regular youth club session in a venue in their postcode area.

Delivery of support and activities in collaboration with local assets - including venues in the area, individual community leaders and community organisations. The model of work we are proposing would be based on a model that has been proven successful in Barton and Tredworth and which entails interagency work incorporating Brendan's Bridge youth and community charity, neighbourhood policing teams, Alternative Provision Schools and local community groups and leaders including young people themselves.

Outcomes would include: diversionary activities for young people, sports and music programmes to develop social and vocational skills and engage the young people in further services in the city, access to mental health support where applicable, positive re-engagement with their own community through geographically based projects, conversations around deterrence including clear communication around such issues as e-scooters, puff bars, knife crime, violence and gangs.

• Organisation: Victim Support Gloucestershire
• Project name: Hedgehog Finds Her Voice
• Priority Type: Supporting Victims and Reducing Reoffending
• Total Investment: 4972.00
• Awarded: 2022/2023
• Location: Countywide

About the project:

A contribution towards publication of the Hedgehog finds her voice book, about a Hedgehog who loses her voice when no one will listen to her experiences of bullying and hate crime but is able to regain it when someone listens to her sensitively.

The project will provide parents and professionals with the opportunity to deal with sensitive topics in an accessible way while educating them on the importance of listening. This will increase the likelihood of children opening up about their feelings, being listened to, and action being taken to improve their mental health.

• Organisation: Young Gloucestershire
• Project name: Street-based youth work and community outreach in Tewkesbury district
• Priority Type: Empowering Local Communities
• Total Investment: 5000.00
• Awarded: 2020/2021, 2021/2022, 2022/2023, 2023/2024
• Location: Gloucester

About the project:

We aim to continue to develop and provide street-based youth-work in the district, that proved so successful during the first lockdowns, to ensure young people who are in need of support are identified and don't remain hidden. This youth worker support will play an invaluable role in ensuring young people are not criminalised by making the wrong choices, are there to breakdown negative perceptions young people often have of their area and provide the individualised support different young people require.

This street-based youth work will help young people develop as individuals, inform them about opportunities for further education, support to find training and/or employment, and ensure that young people are guided into YG's other services including mental-health, drug and alcohol and NEET projects. We see this street-based youth work model as a hub of youth provision in the district that can feed young people into our core youth work programmes for longer-term support.

By building strong working relationships with young people is vital in order to gain the trust that can lead them onto a path of longer-term recovery through more specialised support, e.g. counselling. We envisage that our street-based youth-work will continue to work closely with the Police. Simultaneously and through outreach work across the district of Tewkesbury, we aim to scope and develop a strategic plan for the District that will increase youth provision in the District while providing ongoing support to the voluntary sector in the area to ensure communities are assisted to run safe youth provisions especially around safeguarding practices and the upskilling of volunteers.

Asset mapping will be very important for this project to understand what facilities are available in the area for young people already and building on some existing work, we will gather this, crucially, from young people's perspectives and not professionals or adults. This commitment to youth-work in Tewkesbury district will create opportunities for young people to become active citizens while ensuring young people's voices are heard and represented when decisions that impact their futures are made in the district.

• Organisation: Your Next Move (formerly know as Team Multi Styles Battle CIC)
• Project name: Rebuilding the Future
• Priority Type: Creating Safer Communities
• Total Investment: 5000.00
• Awarded: 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2022/2023, 2023/2024
• Location: Gloucester

About the project:

Our project uses the positive power of Hip Hop culture to create inspiring experiences alongside with young people (YP) who have been, or felt, excluded from traditional cultural activities. The philosophy of Hip Hop is centred around community, connecting with others and enjoyment and our work has been shown to enable YP to build up confidence, understand team working and develop leadership skills, reducing crime and developing safer communities.

The project aims are to a) build trust with/amongst young people through activities current/relevant to their lives in their own communities; b) build understanding between those from different communities / cultures through a shared interest in Hip Hop and, c) develop their skills, confidence, wellbeing and aspirations.

• Organisation: Victim Support – County Hate Crime Coordinator
• Website: https://www.victimsupport.org.uk/
• Project name: County Hate Crime Coordinator
• Priority Type: Creating Safer Communities
• Total Investment: 37539.00
• Awarded: 2017/2018, 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2022/2023, 2023/2024
• Location: Countywide

About the project:

This project is key to the successful delivery of the Gloucestershire Hate Crime and Hate Incident coordinated response strategy 2021-2025. It will cover the delivery of projects covering awareness raising, increasing reporting rates, access and accountability within the system, supporting marginalised groups, and tackling violence against women and girls.

• Organisation: U17 Drivers Pathfinder Limited, a subsidiary of The Under 17 Car Club Charitable Trust
• Project name: The Pathfinder Initiative
• Priority Type: Creating Safer Communities
• Total Investment: 10000
• Awarded: 2017/2018, 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2022/2023, 2023/2024
• Location: Countywide

About the project:

This volunteer run project is designed to reduce the number of road traffic collisions, casualties (KSIs) and convictions amongst vulnerable novice drivers, i.e. 17-24 year olds by offering pre-licence driver education.

• Organisation: Stroud Beresford
• Project name: Stroud Women's Refuge: Workshops for Vulnerable Women
• Priority Type: Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls
• Total Investment: 8900.00
• Awarded: 2017/2018, 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2022/2023, 2023/2024
• Location: Stroud

About the project:

The project aims to address the issue of violence against women and girls by tackling domestic abuse in Gloucestershire.

The main aims will be to:- Increase understanding of healthy and unhealthy relationships amongst young people, reducing the risk of being in abusive relationships- Increase access to support in the community for those experiencing domestic abuse through community workshops and programmes- Increase support for those most at risk of harm from abuse through specialist activities in our refuge, reducing their vulnerabilities and future risk of harm.

• Organisation: Severn Area Rescue Association
• Website: https://www.sara-rescue.org.uk/
• Email Address: [email protected]
• Project name: Project Resilience
• Priority Type: Strengthening Your Constabulary
• Total Investment: 10000.00
• Awarded: 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2022/2023, 2023/2024
• Location: Countywide

About the project:

The Severn Area Rescue Association (SARA) provides land search and rescues expertise to Gloucestershire Constabulary, particularly to undertake high risk vulnerable missing person searches (e.g. persons with dementia, despondent individuals), especially in rural (countryside and forest) and peri-urban environments.

Additional areas in which expertise is provided are cliff/steep-ground rescue/recovery and searches of water bodies (e.g. rivers and lakes). SARA is the lead or ‘first choice’ voluntary emergency response agency to provide these services to Gloucestershire Constabulary. Searches for high risk vulnerable missing people, particularly those occurring in more isolated countryside and forested areas, require specialist expertise and equipment.

Such expertise is outside the capability (training and experience) of most police officers. In addition, missing person searches can be resource demanding in terms of personnel. Thus, the search capability provided by SARA delivers both an effective search response (use of specialist skills) as well as an efficient response (use of personnel), allowing police officers to work to their specialisms with SARA volunteers focusing on the actual search. This has the additional benefit of reducing, in real terms, the number of police officers required on a search, allowing them to continue with their ‘normal’ duties.

• Organisation: Nailsworth Youth Club
• Project name: Forest Green Youth Cafe
• Priority Type: Creating Safer Communities
• Total Investment: 5000.00
• Awarded: 2017/2018, 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2022/2023, 2023/2024
• Location: Stroud

About the project:

Our aim is to offer a safe non judgmental space for young people to meet, access advice and information and build positive relationships with peers and adults. Our objective is to offer an after school youth café in the Arkell community centre one afternoon per week 4pm - 6pm where the school buses drop off young people that live in Forest Green.

The young people will be offered a healthy snack and a drink and the opportunity to access the internet for homework support and talk to qualified youth workers who are able to give advice, information and signpost/refer if needed. We will also invite other organisations and partners to join us such as our local PCSO, Neighbourhood Warden and Stroud Youth Support Team on a regular basis.

• Organisation: Cheltenham Street Pastors
• Website: https://streetpastors.org/locations/cheltenham/
• Email Address: [email protected]
• Project name: Cheltenham Street Pastors
• Priority Type: Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls
• Total Investment: 15000.00
• Awarded: 2017/2018, 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2022/2023, 2023/2024
• Location: Cheltenham

About the project:

For youngsters we try by example and conversation to explain the good and bad side of the night life. We are non-judgmental and non-confrontational. We are a calming presence to help. We help young people by offering water, flipflops and blankets if needed but most of all our time.

Our aim is to help revelers enjoy themselves and return home safely. We patrol on foot to help anyone who asks for help. We go in the parks and alleyways where we have found and saved revelers from life threatening circumstances. The aim is to help, care and listen to anyone who needs us.

We walk slowly through town on Friday and Saturday nights (10pm-4am) so that we are available and accessible to revelers. We patrol in a clearly defined area of the town centre. We also patrol on extra occasions such as Race Week and A levels results. We have 8 patrols each serving once a month. Help is usually given to those who have consumed excessive alcohol or other substances, we can help them with physical needs; flipflops, water and lollipops. Also first aid. Our aim is to keep people safe and prevent accidents requiring medical help, by collecting broken glass, thus maybe saving an ambulance call out.

To provide a safe place for those needing assistance during the night. A place where people can be listened to and helped by trained Street Pastors An accessible site being parked in the same place every Friday and Saturday night so people know where to find us.

• Organisation: Churn Project
• Website: http://www.churnproject.org.uk/
• Email Address: [email protected]
• Project name: Freedom- support with domestic abuse
• Priority Type: Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls
• Total Investment: 7500
• Awarded: 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2022/2023, 2023/2024
• Location: Cotswolds

About the project:

We will offer the Freedom Programme to women affected by domestic abuse. The programme is designed to change attitudes towards abusers, to educate women about what has happened to them, and what signs to be aware of in a potentially abusive situation in the future.

Often women attending the programme have not identified the behaviours/patterns as coercive control and often miss the signs earlier on, so when they are feeling threatened and frightened they are already very much affected by this controlling behaviour and it has a powerful impact on them.

This of course effects their ability to leave and has further negative impact on any children. Freedom looks at the whole dynamics of a controlling relationship in which coercive control is the most powerful; domestic abuse is is not just about physical violence.

Thus the programme and any follow up 121 work supports women to make sense of their past experience, to understand their own rights and resources, and avoid similar experiences happening again. We also offer 121 support to women currently affected by abuse, or who need additional support to manage their wellbeing and keep themselves or their families safe.

• Organisation: Gloucestershire Bike Project CIC
• Website: https://gloucestershirebikeproject.co.uk/Home
• Project name: Cycles of Change
• Priority Type: Creating Safer Communities
• Total Investment: 50000
• Awarded: 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2022/2023, 2023/2024
• Location: Gloucester

About the project:

Help young people who are at risk of criminal justice involvement through engaging in a positive activity which will help them to choose a better path. We will do this by offering them free bike building courses and volunteering opportunities, where they can build a bike to keep as well as a bike to donate to a young person in care or to a local school or to a refugee family.

• Organisation: Gloucester Street Pastors
• Website: https://streetpastors.org/locations/gloucester/
• Project name: Street Pastor Patrols
• Priority Type: Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls
• Total Investment: 3600.00
• Awarded: 2017/2018, 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2022/2023, 2023/2024
• Location: Gloucester

About the project:

At night street pastors patrol in a team consisting of 3 or 4 volunteers in uniform. We use the nightsafe radio to communicate with the Door staff and the Police CCTV control room. Our aim is to care, listen to and help those in the clubbing community with practical support (Flip-flops, water etc) and assistance to keep them safe.

We try to project a calming presence, and we look to help those in distress link up with friends, relatives, or a taxi to help them get home safely. This may also involve working with Street Medics or the ambulance service is severe cases

• Organisation: Fair Shares Gloucestershire
• Website: https://www.fairshares.org.uk/
• Project name: Gloucester Time Bank: Young People's Programme
• Priority Type: Supporting Victims and Reducing Reoffending
• Total Investment: 50000
• Awarded: 2017/2018, 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2022/2023, 2023/2024
• Location: Gloucester

About the project:

The project aims to work with disadvantaged and disabled young people in Gloucestershire, helping them in the transition to adulthood, and to become part of a community.

The young people will be referred to the project from a range of organisations such as the Betaris SWAT ( Serious about Work and Training) project for young people who are outside of mainstream school and who face barriers to traditional learning, and other organisations including Gloucestershire Youth Support Team, Gloucestershire College, local schools and Active Impact which supports young people with disabilities and their families.

The programme aims to help the young people to:- Develop skills and confidence so that they can progress in pathways towards employment and avoid being NEET- Rebuild a positive relationship with the community, giving them a sense of belonging and reducing the likelihood of antisocial behaviours- Provide welcome group sessions for disabled young people who are transitioning from education.- Introducing them to Strength & Based approach to working in the community so that young people have a sense of being part of their community, reducing their sense of being marginalised and silenced.

The programme will run 4 days per week offering:- Individual support and mentoring to identify goals and build confidence- Practical skills training (DIY, gardening etc.) in groups and 1:1- Community activity to give to others and contribute to the community- Opportunities to socialise and build networks of support- Welcoming groups which brings together young people with disabilities and other members of the community to support them to be active members of their community.

The young people will be encouraged to get involved in activities which interest them, and we will consult them in the type of activity they want to do. In addition to the group work and community activities, we will support the young people individually, through mentoring and support. The groups will enable them to benefit from the experience of other community members, as well as building peer support networks.

We also seek to challenge their thinking and beliefs especially negative ones that prevent them from moving on in life . Many of the young people have had very limited life experiences, some may not have left their home town, visited the countryside or large city or may not have encountered people with different beliefs and life styles.

We take the young people out to places and events which challenge their limited experiences. This may be a trip to London to visit the Houses of Parliament or to go rock climbing or a helping to build a shed for a disabled people project. Finally, the young people will be able to benefit in the future from our GEM Navigator who supports people furthest from the labour market to progress towards employment.

• Organisation: Creative Sustainability CIC
• Website: https://www.accessbike.org/
• Project name: Access Bike
• Priority Type: Creating Safer Communities
• Total Investment: 5000.00
• Awarded: 2019/2020, 2022/2023, 2023/2024
• Location: Stroud

About the project:

Access Bike provides a fully equipped cycle workshop for young people, from 10am to 6.30pm three days a week. First part of the day is for vulnerable young people, with peer support and a co-produced personal development programme.

From 3pm all young people can join in activities, share skills and socialise. Young people can work on their own bike, or if they don't have one they can chose from donations, do one up for themselves or for sale to the wider community.

There are bike rides, shared lunches and informal catch ups to support positive behaviour, model positive friendships and support connection with other CS offers work advice, sexual and mental health support and other mental health and wellbeing activities in our new 3rd Space project.

• Organisation: Teens in Crisis (TIC+)
• Project name: Anger management and violence reduction through counselling
• Priority Type: Supporting Victims and Reducing Reoffending
• Total Investment: 9940.65
• Awarded: 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2022/2023, 2023/2024
• Location: Countywide

About the project:

The aim of the project is to support young people presenting with anger issues that could leading to anti-social behaviour, crime and potential violence towards others.

When a young person either self-refers, or is referred by someone to seek support, our referral team undertakes a comprehensive process to assess their immediate risk and identify the issues they are facing. his project would use funding towards providing counselling support to referrals from this demographic who are at a higher risk of causing crime through anger related anti-social or violent behaviour.

Counsellors would work with these young people delivering solution focused sessions to address a young persons anger issues.

• Organisation: The Music Works
• Project name: The Drop
• Priority Type: Creating Safer Communities
• Total Investment: 10000.00
• Awarded: 2017/2018, 2022/2023, 2023/224
• Location: Gloucester

About the project:

Deliver regular, open access music making sessions for young people at risk of getting involved in violence.

They aim to provide young people with:- A safe, creative place that they know they can come to which gets them off the streets and doing something positive- The opportunity to be creative, giving them skills that they can also use at home- The chance to connect with other young people and positive role models- The chance to work with other young people to organise community events such as performances- Volunteering and work experience opportunities.