As part of the Antisocial Behaviour Fund, Cleveland Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC) has given grants totaling £127,975.25 to community organisations in 2023-24.
The OPCC awarded the following grants in summer 2023:
- Billingham Boxing Academy (BBA) – £1,500. Funding will allow BBA to run a boxing programme for four hours per day Monday to Thursday during the first four weeks of the school, summer holidays.
- Boosbeck Village Hall – £600. The grant will support a pirate-themed fun day in August 2023
- Hartlepool Rugby Football Club – £640. Funding will support the Inner Warrior Camp for Women and Girls. It aims to give women the chance to experience rugby for the first time.
- St Nicholas Youth Group, Guisborough– £1,500. The grant will be used to buy three table tennis tables for the youth group
- St Ann’s Partnership, Stockton – £1,480.16. Funding will help the partnership to run summer play sessions, which will include a wide range of activities from sport to cookery.
- Hardwick in Partnership, Stockton – £926. The grant will enable the partnership to run five outreach/detached work youth sessions during August.
- Community Ventures, Middlesbrough – £1,500. Funding will support the Digging Deep allotment project. It aims to encourage the generations to get together to garden. It will also demonstrate the impact of ASB on allotments, as the Town Farm allotment has recently been subjected to ASB including deliberate fire setting.
- Ladies of Steel, Dormanstown, Redcar – £1,500. The grant will pay to upgrade existing youth club equipment as well as buy new kit including video games and arts and crafts equipment.
- Hartlepool Huskies Basketball – £1,500. Funding will allow the club to run its Take it to the Streets basketball coaching project in 10 specific areas of Hartlepool.
- The Shack, Stockton – £1,500. The grant will help The Shack to buy equipment, including a shed, for its gardening club. In turn, this will allow it to develop its allotment further.
- NEPACs – £1,491. Funding will support the BEEhave yourself project. It will encourage young people to design and create materials to use in a series of publicity campaigns. Campaigns will highlight the impact of ASB on individuals and the wider community to their peer group.
- Neuro Linguistic Practitioner Hazel Rockingham, Billingham – £1,500. The grant will fund NLP workshops at BCT Aspire to develop young people’s understanding, challenge negative behaviour patterns and enable more positive outcomes in future
- Lingdale Village Hall – £1,500. Funding will support a range of free and low cost activities over the summer holidays including sports, arts and crafts and day trips
Autumn Activity Fund
The PCC awarded £38,020.72-worth of grants as part of the Autumn Activity Fund to the following grass roots projects:
- Iron Guidance (Thornaby)- £2,500 for the Respect Effect Project
- Youth Focus North East (Pallister Park, Park End, Thorntree and North Ormesby, Middlesbrough) – £2,131.68 for pop-up youth sessions
- Liverton Mines – £770 for youth autumn fun
- PFC/Hartlepool Sport (Headland, Hartlepool) – £2,021.96 for Pumpkins in the Park
- Billingham Boxing Academy – £2,350 for a boxing event on 5 November
- Kids’ Kabin (Grove Hill, Easterside, Saltersgill, Pallister Park and Thorntree) – £1,900 for youth sessions, starting week commencing 23 October
- People’s Meeples (Hartlepool) – £1,520 for HallowTeen Paint and Play workshop for young table top gamers
- Belle Vue Sport and Youth Centre (Foggy Furze and Belle Vue, Hartlepool) – £2,360 for additional youth club sessions
- Middlesbrough Football Club Foundation (Park End, Hemlington and Ayresome) – £1,145 for Premier League Kicks sessions
- Corner House Youth Project (Ropner, Stockton town centre, Mandale and Victoria, Ingleby Barwick, Yarm and Newtown) – £2,500 for targeted youth engagement
- St Ann’s Partnership (Portrack and Tilery) – £1,000.08 for a free Halloween party
- Teesside Vineyard Church (Thornaby) – £1,000 for a free light party on Sunday 29 October
- Wharton Trust (Dyke House): £2,500 for sports and outdoor activities
- Hartlepool St Francis Football Club (Rossmere/Fens and Manor): £2,230 for education and football sessions
- Pallister Park Pride in Place: £1,621 for community Halloween event
- Tees Valley Together/Hemlington Linx (Hemlington): £3,550.25 for a range of activities
- Sensory Spot CIC (Victoria) – £1,965 for film fun nights, wellbeing and craft activities
- The Shack (Ragworth and Primrose Hill) – £2,500 for an afternoon of activities on its allotment
- Aeronauts Trampoline Club CIC (Hartlepool)- £2,471 for free trampolining sessions during half term
- Hazel Rockingham NLP (Roseberry) – £1,000 for coaching to help participants gain greater self awareness and a positive mindset
- Jack of Hearts CIC (Headland) – £2,070 for a spooky seaside fun day in the Headland, Hartlepool, linked to the existing Wintertide Festival
Spring Activity Fund
The PCC awarded -£68,942.53-worth of grants as part of the Spring Activity Fund to the following grass roots projects:
- 4th Hartlepool Boys Brigade Company (£555.58) Funding will be used to expand activities to include musical sessions to attract a wider group of young people.
- Junction Foundation Targeted Youth Support (£4,000.00) The grant will be used to offer outward bound activities during February half term and Easter school holidays.
- Kidz Konnekt (£4,000.00) Funding will be used to deliver a week of actiivties during the half term and Easter school holidays in the South Bank/Greater Eston area.
- Hartlepool United Community Sports Foundation (£3,575.10) The grant will be used to deliver five days of football during February half term and Easter school holidays. Sessions will be focused on 12–16-year-olds. Hartlepool United FC players will visit the project to tell young people about their careers.
- ARC Stockton Arts Centre (£750) Funding will be used to work with a group of 15 young people from Primrose Hill Community Centre’s youth club. They will explore antisocial behaviour using drama, film and crafts.
- Tees Valley Community Church (The Shack) (£500) The grant will be used to support a Community Fun Day during the Easter holidays. It will feature a range of entertainment including facepainting, glitter tattoo, balloon modelling and a range of crafts.
- TeesstrHive CIC (£3,994.40). Funding will be used to deliver the “Invo7ve” project during the February and Easter school holidays 2024. The project will be based at Saltburn Community Centre. It will include art projects, meditation and mindfulness/chill-out yoga.
- Teesside Vineyard Church (£2,860) Thornaby-based Teesside Vineyard Church will use funding to deliver a youth social for 10 to 16 year olds, a pizza party for primary-aged children and a breakfast and craft club. A free ‘Easter Egg-travangaza’ party for four to 10 year-olds will take place during the Easter holidays.
- Middlesbrough Football Club Foundation (£4,000) Funding will be used to expand the Premier League Kicks programme during the February half term and Easter school holidays, delivering three intra-site football tournaments.
- Hartlepool Huskies (£3,810) The grant will be used to deliver six afternoon/evening basketball camps for primary and secondary age groups. They will take place on Saturdays and Sundays in accessible locations in Hartlepool, Billingham and Stockton. Funding will also be used to offer schools a taster session.
- Liverton Parochial Church Council (£1,400) Funding will be used to buy the equipment needed to host film and games nights during the half-term and Easter holiday periods. It will also cover refreshments for film nights.
- Hartlepool PFC Trust (£1,790.00.) The grant will be used to deliver a Play in the Park event in Seaton Park during the Easter holidays. The event will be an opportunity for local sports clubs to showcase their offer. A series of throwback games will take place to encourage families across the generations to take part.
- Hartlepool Ambulance Charity (£2,000) Funding will be used to deliver First Aid Friends courses during the Easter holiday period to young people, The courses will teach young people how to perform CPR as well as showing other first aid techniques.
- Redcar Development Trust (£4,000) Funding will be used to deliver 15 holiday club sessions over the February half term and Easter holiday periods. Sessions will include boxing and other fitness-based activities together with healthy refreshments.
- Hope Church East Cleveland (£1,350) The grant will be used to provide a free ice skating trip for 50 young people from the Loftus area during February half term.
- Taste of Africa (£4,000) Funding will be used to run a series of 15 workshops during the half term and Easter holidays for young people of colour. The focus will be on teaching podcasting and video editing, providing young people with vital life and employability skills.
- Community Ventures (Middlesbrough) Ltd (£7,950) Community Ventures (Middlesbrough) Limited (CVL) will use funding to deliver five days of drop-in cycling workshops during the February half term and eight days during the Easter holidays. Sessions will teach safe riding skills and bike maintenance. Those most at risk of escalating ASB behaviour will be targeted.
- Belle Vue Community Sports and Youth Centre Ltd (£3,832.00) Hartlepool-based Belle Vue Centre will run two activity days in February and two during the Easter holidays. They will include trips to the cinema and multi-sport sessions.
- Lingdale Village Hall (£4,000) Lingdale Village Hall serves the villages of Lingdale and Stanghow, Boosbeck, Margrove Park, Moorsholm and the Charltons. Funding will be used to deliver a series of events over February half term and Easter under the banner Building Pride in the Community. Activities will bring young and old together. February activities will include a beauty day, scavenger hunt, kitchen therapy, gaming event and bikability. Easter activities will include arts and crafts, an Easter egg hunt, Easter parade, egg rolling and a themed disco,
- Play Out Hartlepool CIC/Hartlepool Victoria Ward Community Support Workers (£3,193.65.) Play Out Hartlepool CIC promotes the importance of outdoor play for everyone. Victoria Ward Community Support Workers will lead trips to Saltholme and Durham during February half-term for children and their carers. Funding will also provide nature walks and activities in Burn Valley during the Easter holidays. Activities will include looking at local wildlife and plants, building dens and navigating the local park using maps and compasses.
- St Anns Partnership Ltd (£3,200.00) Funding will be used to deliver two taster days in a local gym during February half term. There will also be two trips out during Easter together with two open days at the Community Centre. One of the open days will include animal encounters with a second focusing on arts,crafts and games.
- Kids Kabin (£811.80) The grant will be used to deliver four activity days during February half term as well as a theatre trip. Sessions will focus on young people’s experiences of ASB. Activities will include a litter pick and a drama performance, where the young people will explore the impact of ASB.
- Roseberry Community Consortium (£1,350.00.) Funding will cover the cost of delivering 10 workshops to students during the Easter school holidays. Workshops will help young people learn essential life skills and coping strategies
- People’s Meeples (£3,666.00.) The Hartlepool-based community organisation was given a grant to run tabletop gaming activities for young people aged 11 to 16 during February half term and Easter holidays.
Police Property Act (PPA) Funding
The following charities have received PPA funding during 2022-23:
- Soroptimist International Great Britain and Northern Ireland (SIGBI) Stockton on Tees Club – £3,875 to provide emergency supply packs for victims of trafficking and modern slavery.
- North East Sex Work Forum (NESWF) – £4,500 as a single, one-off contribution to NESWF to facilitate and coordinate the work of the Cleveland sex work strategic forum in developing a sex work strategy for Cleveland