Wiltshire community groups get cash from PCC
Six groups are being supported through the Community Action Fund
Another six community groups working to tackle youth safety, homelessness and domestic abuse have received a grant from Wiltshire's Police and Crime Commissioner.
Philip Wilkinson's Community Action Fund supports voluntary groups to deliver activities in line with priorities set out in the #MakingWiltshireSafer Police and Crime Plan.
The projects being supported are:
- Be a Better You, which gets £5,000 towards sports based mentoring programmes for 11 - 25 year olds across Wiltshire
- Relate Dorset and South Wiltshire receives £4,611 for a range of relationship focused counselling services, as well as places for male and female domestic abuse perpetrators in the Salisbury area to attend behavioural change programmes
- 4 Youth has been given £5,000 to deliver street-based youth work in Devizes, Westbury and Melksham two nights per week
- Swindon Sisters Alliance gets £5,000 for signposting, food bank referrals, walk in support, hardship funds, practical support and a safe space to hold meetings to assist with ongoing needs around domestic violence
- Prime Theatre receives £4,975 towards hosting 10 creative workshops and interviews with 180 young people around their experiences of knife crime
- Doorway Wiltshire Ltd has been given £5,000 for everyday running costs of a drop-in centre for vulnerable adults experiencing homelessness or housing issues in Chippenham - providing food, washing and laundry facilities, activities, support and advice
PCC Philip Wilkinson said:
“I’m pleased with the number of applications we’ve received in this window of funding and the standard of those applications has been very high.
“I’d like to thank every group for their interest in my Community Action Fund and for the great work they all do whether that be protecting young or vulnerable people, offering diversionary activities and pathways or providing a space within communities.
“I’m looking forward to seeing these projects develop and visiting as many of the groups as I can to see their great work in action, how they are actively contributing to their communities and helping to making Wiltshire safer by delivering the priorities in my Police and Crime Plan.”