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Successful bids for the 2019 to 2020 fund
Updated 6 November 2019
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| Community fund 2019-20 – list of funded projects | |||
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| Organisation | Location | Details of project | Amount £ |
| 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. | £30,000 |
| Apple Pie Enterprises (Ape Media) | Stratford, London | To deliver #Rebirthofcool – an anti-knife crime initiative in Stratford for young people who are known to have real experiences of knife crime. | £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. | £30,000 |
| Leap Confronting Conflict | Newham and Harrow, London | Improving Prospects – a community-based programme aimed at transforming the life chances of disadvantaged young people who are struggling with destructive conflict. | £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. | £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). | £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. | £28,570 |
| Godwin Lawson Foundation | Enfield and Tottenham - London | To deliver its “At Risk” 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. | £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. | £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. | £21,936 |
| Oxygen | Kingston-upon-Thames and other London locations | To deliver the “What’s the Point?” knife crime prevention programme to cater for young people from Kingston and across multiple London boroughs. | £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. | £29,908 |
| The London Merit Association | Edmonton, London | ‘Respect each other & no to knives!’ project to help children and young people understand the dangers of knife crime in order to prevent it and intervene at an early stage. | £30,000 |
| Jason Roberts Foundation | Brent, London | ‘Aim Higher’ – a project to steer at-risk youth away from gang culture, knife and gun crime, through workshops augmented by sports programmes. | £30,000 |
| Inspired Futures | Pupil Referral Units across London | ‘The Plain and Simple Truth’ – 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. | £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. | £29,908 |
| Streets of Growth | Tower Hamlets, London | ‘Turning the Tables: No young person living a harmful life’. 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. | £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. | £30,000 |
| Rio Ferdinand Foundation | Peckham, Brixton, Kennington | ‘Not Me: An anti-knife crime community partnership project for young Londoners’, 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. | £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. | £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. | £28,750 |
| JDG Birmingham | Birmingham | To deliver a programme focusing on knife crime and youth violence, the effects, the causes, and the judicial system. | £15,000 |
| Avision for Empowerment CIC | Birmingham | To deliver ‘The Breakthrough’ - an effective behavioural change programme to help reduce knife crime. The Breakthrough prevents criminal tendencies/behaviours and fosters approaches which improve participants’ life skills such as trust, resilience, communication and self-belief via highly engaging workshops. | £29,547 |
| Round Midnight Creative Arts | West Midlands: Sandwell, Dudley, Solihull and Coventry | To deliver ‘Cutting Ties’ - 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. | £15,430 |
| The Play House | Birmingham | ‘Split Second’ - a participatory performance which will explore the causes and consequences of knife crime with primary school children aged 9-11. | £27,698 |
| Positive Youth Foundation | Coventry | ‘Lives Before Knives’ 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. | £28,250 |
| The Florrie | Liverpool | ‘Grades Not Blades’ Programme to deliver social and education-based solutions to further educate on the impact and consequences of carrying a knife. | £28,795 |
| CELLS Project CIC | Liverpool | ‘The Pointless Programme’ is a proactive and reactive approach at reducing knife crime through prevention, early intervention and follow on support. | £26,480 |
| Halewood Youth In Community Centre | Halewood, Merseyside | Halewood Young People’s 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. | £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. | £30,000 |
| Prince’s Trust | Liverpool | ‘Beyond the Blade extension’ to run knife crime awareness sessions between September 2019 – March 2020 for young people most at risk of offending: to make informed choices around knife crime and risk-taking behaviour in the future. | £30,000 |
| Mothers Against Violence | Manchester | ‘Stop and Reach’ programme providing pro-social activities which will prevent young people engaging in anti-social behaviour and knife crime through regular workshops and activities. | £8,500 |
| Manchester Youth Zone | Manchester | ‘Junior Choices’ work with young people particularly vulnerable to involvement in knife and serious violence and create longer term pathways into positive and sustainable interests. | £30,000 |
| Smallbridge & Belfield Youth Forum | Rochdale, Greater Manchester | ‘Every Life Matters’ Programme to deliver anti knife crime workshops focusing on the danger and consequences of knife crime for the individuals and families involved. | £13,935 |
| Prime Active Communities CIC | Tameside, Greater Manchester | ‘One life, one love’ – 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. | £29,835 |
| Choose the Right Path | North Manchester and Trafford | ‘Community Hoops’ 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. | £9,650 |
| The Children’s Society | North East – various locations | ‘My Voice’ 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. | £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. | £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. | £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. | £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. | £30,000 |
| Chris Cave Foundation | Middlesbrough | ‘Point 7’ programme with workshops showing the impact of knife crime to be delivered across the North East. | £10,000 |
| Hull FC Rugby Community Sports and Education Foundation | Hull | ‘Team Mate’ will entail a seven-month campaign targeting 14–16 year olds in schools and community settings in the Hull area. | £14,667 |
| Tanhouse Community Enterprise | Skelmersdale, Lancashire | ‘Night Vision’ to deliver the Street Games project which includes a peer mentor and work experience delivery model. | £5,486 |
| Leeds United Foundation | Leeds | ‘Be United – Just Say No To Knives’ 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. | £30,000 |
| Neesie | Bradford, West Yorkshire | ‘Aunty Knife’ 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. | £29,910 |
| Element Society | Sheffield | The Sheffield ‘Street Reach’ 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. | £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. | £28,199 |
| The Dare2Dream Foundation | Nuneaton and Bedworth, Warwickshire | The ‘Time2Shine Early Intervention Programme’ 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. | £30,000 |
| Go-Getta CIC | Leicester | To deliver the ‘Words Over Weapons’ assemblies and workshops to educate young people on the dangers and risks attached to carrying a knife. | £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. | £28,997 |
| National Justice Museum | Nottingham | ‘Choices and Consequences’ – 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. | £20,000 |
| Warriors Basketball Club | Leicester | ‘Zone Defence Against Knife Crime’ (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. | £9,230 |
| The Children’s Society | Nottingham | Safer Choices Programme of interventions, primarily preventive, addressing the issue of knife carrying within the context of the young person’s life. This will focus on the 4 Rs - reassurance, risks and consequences, resilience and responsibility. | £30,000 |
| Streetdoctors | Various – 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’s attitude towards violence, and increase their confidence and aspirations. | £15,400 |
| Active Communities Network | Portsmouth, Hampshire | The ‘Urban Stars’ 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. | £27,500 |
| The Flavasum Trust (Luton) | Luton, Bedfordshire | To deliver ‘It’s No Joke!’ - 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. | £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. | £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. | £29,887 |
| Re-Wise Learning | South Wales and North Wales – Swansea, Newport, Cardiff, Rhyl and Wrexham | To deliver Beats Not Blades – a series of workshops in schools in Swansea, Newport, Cardiff, Rhyl & Wrexham as part of the Prince’s Trust Achieve clubs. | £30,000 |