Violence Reduction Fund
One of the recommendations, announced in March 2019, was for the PCC to set aside a portion of his annual commissioning budget to create a Violence Reduction Fund (VRF). This fund will support activities such as, awareness campaigns, prevention initiatives, rehabilitation projects, and diversionary activities. Ultimately, the PCC wants to play a part in helping protect some of our most vulnerable people from the most violent.
The VRF is a three-year fund, open to statutory organisations, community and voluntary groups, charities and social enterprises to bid for a maximum of £35,000 per year, for three years. The provision of funding is subject to the submission of satisfactory monitoring and adherence to the VRF grant conditions.
Funding recipients
Organisation | Nature of Project | £ |
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Rising Sun and Choices | Guiding Lights: Support for girls aged 11-16 who are at risk of child sexual exploitation or from being in a coercive and controlling relationship | 35,000 |
Kent CrimeStoppers | Fearless: Educating 11-16 year-olds by increasing their awareness of weapons, street crime and child sexual exploitation | 35,000 |
Total Insight Theatre | My Choice Matters: A 60-minute drama performance about knife crime for young people aged 12-15 | 13,909 |
Uprising Youth and Community | Knife crime awareness campaign in east Kent | 32,000 |
Folkestone Youth Project | The Shed: Social, emotional and physical support for young people who have made unhealthy and negative life choices | 7,850 |
The Forward Trust | Violence Reduction Peer Mentoring programme for clients accessing their East Kent Community Drug and Alcohol Services | 34,125 |
Kent Police | Mini-Cadets: Nine-week programme delivered in schools, with a social act project to conclude | 36,814 |
Reform Restore Respect | I Didn't Know That: 90-minute workshops delivered to Year 6 pupils around gang violence and knife crime | 5,000 |
Kent Police | Domestic Abuse Pilot: Procurement of a programme of workshops for identified perpetrators of domestic abuse in Medway | 24,750 |