Transparency data
Successful bids for the 2019 to 2020 fund
Updated 6 November 2019
| Community fund 2019-20 鈥� list of funded projects | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Organisation | Location | Details of project | Amount 拢 |
| Lives not Knives | Croydon, London | Lives Not Knives Educate Programme to deliver training to teachers and youth workers, who in turn will adopt and deliver the training to students/young people by the end of March 2020. | 拢30,000 |
| Apple Pie Enterprises (Ape Media) | Stratford, London | To deliver #Rebirthofcool 鈥� an anti-knife crime initiative in Stratford for young people who are known to have real experiences of knife crime. | 拢29,730 |
| Damilola Taylor Trust | Lewisham and Peckham, London | Careers Pathway Project (CPP) Life and Social Skills Training and Mentoring Scheme to deliver workshops and mentoring sessions at church halls, youth clubs, mosques, and community centres across South London, to educate young people about factors driving youth violence, knife crime and gangs in high risk inner-city environments. | 拢30,000 |
| Leap Confronting Conflict | Newham and Harrow, London | Improving Prospects 鈥� a community-based programme aimed at transforming the life chances of disadvantaged young people who are struggling with destructive conflict. | 拢30,000 |
| REIN | Plaistow, Forest Gate and Stratford, London | To deliver the Raising Awareness Programme, Street Smart, Street Safe to respond to the issue of gang affiliation, violence and knife crime to children and young people. | 拢28,500 |
| Ben Kinsella Trust | Lewisham, Harrow, Hackney, Westminster and Haringey - London. | Anti-Knife Crime Workshops to schools, alternative provision providers and youth/community groups in Lewisham, Harrow, and Hackney, and extending to two further boroughs (Westminster and Haringey). | 拢24,086 |
| Gloves Not Gunz | Croydon, Norbury, South Norwood, Thornton Heath - London | Community Sports & Mentoring programme, to deliver weekly boxing sessions alongside informative educational workshops in two different locations within the London Borough of Croydon. | 拢28,570 |
| Godwin Lawson Foundation | Enfield and Tottenham - London | To deliver its 鈥淎t Risk鈥� project to targeted teenage boys who have been excluded from school and are at risk of being involved in gangs and street crime, and to deliver knife crime education & prevention programmes and parental forums. | 拢29,000 |
| Catalyst in Communities | Walthamstow, London | YouMeUs - FC - an engagement and knife crime prevention project based in Waltham Forest, using the medium of football sessions involving young people who are directly involved in knife crime and who have either carried or considered carrying a bladed weapon. | 拢29,560 |
| Youth First | Lewisham, London | Safer Lives project to deliver anti-knife crime and personal safety workshops in youth clubs with young people at risk of getting involved in knife crime. | 拢21,936 |
| Oxygen | Kingston-upon-Thames and other London locations | To deliver the 鈥淲hat鈥檚 the Point?鈥� knife crime prevention programme to cater for young people from Kingston and across multiple London boroughs. | 拢30,000 |
| St Giles Trust SOS+ Hackney | Hackney, London | The SOS+ Hackney Knife Crime Programme to provide knife crime workshops to primary, secondary schools and PRUs and to deliver group sessions to children in year 6, 7, 8, and 9. | 拢29,908 |
| The London Merit Association | Edmonton, London | 鈥楻espect each other & no to knives!鈥� project to help children and young people understand the dangers of knife crime in order to prevent it and intervene at an early stage. | 拢30,000 |
| Jason Roberts Foundation | Brent, London | 鈥楢im Higher鈥� 鈥� a project to steer at-risk youth away from gang culture, knife and gun crime, through workshops augmented by sports programmes. | 拢30,000 |
| Inspired Futures | Pupil Referral Units across London | 鈥楾he Plain and Simple Truth鈥� 鈥� a cohesion project to be delivered to young people in various schools and includes a thought provoking talk by trained and experienced facilitators to colleges, PRUs and educational provisions across Greater London. | 拢30,000 |
| St Giles Trust SOS+ Lambeth | Lambeth, London | The SOS+ Lambeth Knife Crime Programme to deliver thought provoking sessions to challenge the attitudes of children, raise awareness, explain consequences and laws, and give practical tools to stay safe, in age appropriate ways. | 拢29,908 |
| Streets of Growth | Tower Hamlets, London | 鈥楾urning the Tables: No young person living a harmful life鈥�. To target, engage and positively change the life trajectories of high risk young adults via targeted street work and anti-knife crime street-based workshops. | 拢30,000 |
| Fight for Peace International | Woolwich, London | Fight for Peace primary violence prevention programme to deliver sports and personal development to young people from communities affected by crime and violence. This project aims to assist young people with a history of or at risk of involvement in gangs, violence and knife crime to become more integrated into their communities and mainstream society through regular participation in pro-social programmes. | 拢30,000 |
| Rio Ferdinand Foundation | Peckham, Brixton, Kennington | 鈥楴ot Me: An anti-knife crime community partnership project for young Londoners鈥�, being a six-month sport for development and youth leadership project to reach at-risk young people known to carry knives and those deemed at-risk of becoming involved in gangs and serious youth violence. | 拢29,900 |
| Environmental Vision (known as Envision) | Pan West Midlands | To run the Community Apprentice programme in schools in Birmingham to address key challenges and support anti-knife prevention measures. | 拢30,000 |
| Midlands Air Ambulance | Birmingham and the Black Country | Sky Champs Education Programme to provide awareness and first aid training to young people, staff and parents/carers. The programme will be delivered to schools and colleges - targeting areas with high levels of knife crime e.g. Birmingham and the Black Country. | 拢28,750 |
| JDG Birmingham | Birmingham | To deliver a programme focusing on knife crime and youth violence, the effects, the causes, and the judicial system. | 拢15,000 |
| Avision for Empowerment CIC | Birmingham | To deliver 鈥楾he Breakthrough鈥� - an effective behavioural change programme to help reduce knife crime. The Breakthrough prevents criminal tendencies/behaviours and fosters approaches which improve participants鈥� life skills such as trust, resilience, communication and self-belief via highly engaging workshops. | 拢29,547 |
| Round Midnight Creative Arts | West Midlands: Sandwell, Dudley, Solihull and Coventry | To deliver 鈥楥utting Ties鈥� - a one-hour program, delivered as a 30-minute performance and 30-minute interactive workshop, covering the theme of knife crime and its various consequences. | 拢15,430 |
| The Play House | Birmingham | 鈥楽plit Second鈥� - a participatory performance which will explore the causes and consequences of knife crime with primary school children aged 9-11. | 拢27,698 |
| Positive Youth Foundation | Coventry | 鈥楲ives Before Knives鈥� Programme. Multi activity sessions will run twice a week and are aimed at providing a positive alternative for young people and children who attend the project and are designed to reduce knife crime and improve the attitudes of children and young people towards not carrying a knife. | 拢28,250 |
| The Florrie | Liverpool | 鈥楪rades Not Blades鈥� Programme to deliver social and education-based solutions to further educate on the impact and consequences of carrying a knife. | 拢28,795 |
| CELLS Project CIC | Liverpool | 鈥楾he Pointless Programme鈥� is a proactive and reactive approach at reducing knife crime through prevention, early intervention and follow on support. | 拢26,480 |
| Halewood Youth In Community Centre | Halewood, Merseyside | Halewood Young People鈥檚 Project will develop relationships with groups of young people who live in the Halewood area to assist and encourage their participation into informal educational programmes that focus upon knife crime. | 拢17,275 |
| Big Help Project | Croxteth, Bootle, Liverpool | Fresh Start deliver intensive knife crime interventions. The project will intensively work with each ex-offender and existing hard to reach client base, combine restorative justice and motivational interviewing to remind individuals of the societal impact of knife violence. | 拢30,000 |
| Prince鈥檚 Trust | Liverpool | 鈥楤eyond the Blade extension鈥� to run knife crime awareness sessions between September 2019 鈥� March 2020 for young people most at risk of offending: to make informed choices around knife crime and risk-taking behaviour in the future. | 拢30,000 |
| Mothers Against Violence | Manchester | 鈥楽top and Reach鈥� programme providing pro-social activities which will prevent young people engaging in anti-social behaviour and knife crime through regular workshops and activities. | 拢8,500 |
| Manchester Youth Zone | Manchester | 鈥楯unior Choices鈥� work with young people particularly vulnerable to involvement in knife and serious violence and create longer term pathways into positive and sustainable interests. | 拢30,000 |
| Smallbridge & Belfield Youth Forum | Rochdale, Greater Manchester | 鈥楨very Life Matters鈥� Programme to deliver anti knife crime workshops focusing on the danger and consequences of knife crime for the individuals and families involved. | 拢13,935 |
| Prime Active Communities CIC | Tameside, Greater Manchester | 鈥極ne life, one love鈥� 鈥� a youth-led anti-knife crime campaign led by young people and will explore the triggers and impacts of knife crime through a series of focused workshops, a drama play and workshop, short viral videos and a poster campaign. | 拢29,835 |
| Choose the Right Path | North Manchester and Trafford | 鈥楥ommunity Hoops鈥� Programme to engage young people with activities they wish to pursue and create the opportunity to inform them about better life choices, for example around carrying knives. | 拢9,650 |
| The Children鈥檚 Society | North East 鈥� various locations | 鈥楳y Voice鈥� is a resilience programme that will work with young people who are identified by schools/colleges as needing support to avoid knife crime and to build up their resilience when at risk. | 拢28,500 |
| Newcastle United Foundation | Newcastle | Knife free project to deliver whole year group assemblies to schools, including a one-day workshop for years 8 & 9 to explore the impact that knife crime can have on society. The programme will also continue to work alongside the existing Kicks provision which provides free turn up and play football sessions. | 拢30,000 |
| Bright Futures | South Tyneside | To deliver a knife crime prevention and intervention project consisting of preventative and education sessions for young people across South Tyneside. | 拢13,027 |
| Safe in Tees Valley | Middlesbrough | To deliver the Safe4me targeted intervention programme in Cleveland and to offer the knife crime module of the programme to young people with a specifically targeted knife crime risk association. | 拢29,652 |
| Edge North East | Pan Northumbria | Youth Mentoring programme engaging with young people who are involved with or at risk of serious youth violence including knife crime. | 拢30,000 |
| Chris Cave Foundation | Middlesbrough | 鈥楶oint 7鈥� programme with workshops showing the impact of knife crime to be delivered across the North East. | 拢10,000 |
| Hull FC Rugby Community Sports and Education Foundation | Hull | 鈥楾eam Mate鈥� will entail a seven-month campaign targeting 14鈥�16 year olds in schools and community settings in the Hull area. | 拢14,667 |
| Tanhouse Community Enterprise | Skelmersdale, Lancashire | 鈥楴ight Vision鈥� to deliver the Street Games project which includes a peer mentor and work experience delivery model. | 拢5,486 |
| Leeds United Foundation | Leeds | 鈥楤e United 鈥� Just Say No To Knives鈥� is a series of interventions within priority schools as well as community settings that focus on educating young people about the dangers of knife crime and how they can best keep themselves safe. | 拢30,000 |
| Neesie | Bradford, West Yorkshire | 鈥楢unty Knife鈥� is an educational knife crime programme which will work with a broad spectrum of individuals from diverse backgrounds from localities where knife crime is high and highlighting the devastating impacts of knife crime. | 拢29,910 |
| Element Society | Sheffield | The Sheffield 鈥楽treet Reach鈥� Programme will identify and offer immediate Information, Advice, & Guidance (IAG) to people who do not traditionally engage with external support organisations to offer immediate support to those at risk of knife crime. | 拢29,959 |
| St Giles Trust | Leeds | SOS+ Yorkshire will deliver knife crime sessions and provide for students at high schools and PRUs, primarily in Leeds, who are at the highest risk of being involved in or affected by knife crime. | 拢28,199 |
| The Dare2Dream Foundation | Nuneaton and Bedworth, Warwickshire | The 鈥楾ime2Shine Early Intervention Programme鈥� is a programme to support vulnerable/at risk young people who may have been excluded from school or been involved in criminal activity, gang affiliation, anti-social behaviour, knife crime or other criminal acts. | 拢30,000 |
| Go-Getta CIC | Leicester | To deliver the 鈥榃ords Over Weapons鈥� assemblies and workshops to educate young people on the dangers and risks attached to carrying a knife. | 拢25,510 |
| Enthusiasm Trust | Derby and Nottingham | The Knife Crime Prevention Programme is a targeted combination of youth activities, workshops and detached outreach, providing a multi-faceted, complementary and flexible approach to knife crime prevention and early intervention within the local community. | 拢28,997 |
| National Justice Museum | Nottingham | 鈥楥hoices and Consequences鈥� 鈥� knife crime workshops and early prevention programme. Through five interactive workshops, children learn about making good and bad decisions and the consequences of carrying a knife from the perspective of both the victim and the perpetrator. | 拢20,000 |
| Warriors Basketball Club | Leicester | 鈥榋one Defence Against Knife Crime鈥� (ZDAKC) programme, to be delivered to young people in Leicester to help them understand the consequences of carrying a weapon and offer tools and tips on staying safe and avoiding conflict. | 拢9,230 |
| The Children鈥檚 Society | Nottingham | Safer Choices Programme of interventions, primarily preventive, addressing the issue of knife carrying within the context of the young person鈥檚 life. This will focus on the 4 Rs - reassurance, risks and consequences, resilience and responsibility. | 拢30,000 |
| Streetdoctors | Various 鈥� Blackpool, Leicester, Manchester, Sheffield, Southampton, Stoke | To deliver two 60-minute teaching sessions to equip young people with practical skills to save lives in medical emergencies, change young people鈥檚 attitude towards violence, and increase their confidence and aspirations. | 拢15,400 |
| Active Communities Network | Portsmouth, Hampshire | The 鈥楿rban Stars鈥� programme provides a peer leadership package to support young people to mentor and support their peers in knife crime related activities, using awareness workshops across the wider city target locations including schools, community centres and vulnerable places. | 拢27,500 |
| The Flavasum Trust (Luton) | Luton, Bedfordshire | To deliver 鈥業t鈥檚 No Joke!鈥� - a lively and accessible play that uses comedy to address the issues of antisocial behaviour and weapons-related crime. It will target Year 5 and 6 pupils from primary schools and Year 7 pupils from secondary schools in Luton. | 拢23,800 |
| Mind, Maidstone and Mid-Kent | Sittingbourne, Faversham, Margate (Kent) | Mindful Knife Crime sessions will raise awareness of the dangers of carrying a knife and the effect that knife crime has on families and the community. | 拢15,600 |
| Media Academy Cardiff Ltd | Cardiff, Bridgend, Newport, Vale of Glamorgan | A Tiered Approach in early intervention and prevention to reduce knife crime in South Wales. | 拢29,887 |
| Re-Wise Learning | South Wales and North Wales 鈥� Swansea, Newport, Cardiff, Rhyl and Wrexham | To deliver Beats Not Blades 鈥� a series of workshops in schools in Swansea, Newport, Cardiff, Rhyl & Wrexham as part of the Prince鈥檚 Trust Achieve clubs. | 拢30,000 |