The Neighbourhood Watch Network Community Grants Fund

The Neighbourhood Watch Network aims to promote:

• Good citizenship, community safety and greater public participation in the prevention and detection of crime, and
  
• Public support for the work of the police service and other partners in the protection of people and property from, and the prevention of, crime.

The Network’s Community Grants Fund, which opens top applications today, is intended to fund new, innovative work that helps further its 2020-2025 strategy. The scheme’s funding priorities are:

•  Building or enhancing local networks and relationships.
  
• Developing/improving community cohesion (perhaps with an emphasis on supporting others through the cost-of-living crisis they are experiencing).
  
•  Enhancing the role of volunteers.
  
• Improving the community environment and wellbeing.
  
• Proactively engaging/involving people under-represented in the National Watch Network (for example, BAME, LGBTQ, people with disabilities, or young people’s voices (where relevant safeguarding procedures are in place), and
  
• Supporting crime prevention activities.

Grants of between £100 and £300 are available to registered Neighbourhood Watch Network members who are representatives of a registered and recognised Neighbourhood Watch scheme, group, Area or Association in England and Wales.