PROJECTS to keep youngsters away from crime and look after isolated people in Rugby have received a cash boost.
The Hill Street Youth and Community Centre, The Bradby Club and Newbold Chapel were among schemes in Warwickshire to share grants totalling over £1million from the county’s Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC).
The Hill Street Centre and The Bradby Club received £25,000 and £8,790 respectively for two separate mentoring projects to divert young and vulnerable people away from anti-social behaviour.
The Bradby Club has also been given an extra £6,000 for a mentoring scheme to raise young people’s awareness of unhealthy or risky relationships.
Newbold Chapel received £5,000 for its ‘Elmer’ project, which will see a motorhome go into parts of Rugby to engage with isolated, lonely, vulnerable people, including victims, potential perpetrators and potential victims of crime.
The service will provide comfort, company, advice, access to support services, links into statutory providers, food and transport.
Rugby Borough Neighbourhood Watch and the Rugby Street Pastors also received £1,850 and £7,981 respectively towards their work in the community.
Rugby Community Safety Partnership also receives its core grant funding of £26,700 for its programme of work to address violent crime, reduce reoffending and support victims of domestic abuse.
At a special celebratory event this week in Wolston for those receiving the grants, PCC Philip Seccombe said: “Many of the projects help to tackle some of the underlying factors which can make people vulnerable to crime or bring them to police attention, such as substance misuse or mental health problems.
“Others are intended to help victims cope and recover from the effects of crime or to provide support to offenders and their families to enable them to move away from a life of crime.
“Together they will work alongside other commissioned services and complement the work of the police to help deliver a safer, more secure Warwickshire.”
Further funding announcements will be made later this year when Mr Seccombe allocates £500,000 to schemes which help reduce the number people killed and seriously injured on Warwickshire’s roads.
Visit www.warwickshire-pcc.gov.uk/your-pcc/commissioners-grants for a full list of all the supported projects.
