What is Bedfordshire Crimebeat?
Bedfordshire Crimebeat actively seeks to support young people to help keep them out of trouble and from turning to crime. A practical way of giving support is to financially enable local charities and community groups to undertake projects to prevent or reduce juvenile crime in the community.
Our support is based helping those whose aim is:
- To cut local crime and keep young people out of trouble
- To support victims of crime
- To stimulate an interest in voluntary work
- To help strengthen local communities
- To improve school attendance and behaviour
- To improve the quality of life
Bedfordshire Crimebeat is the youth crime prevention charity of the Bedfordshire Shrievalty and is governed by Trustees who are former High Sheriffs of the County. It has no employees and activities are undertaken by trustees and former High Sheriffs who do not receive any form of remuneration.
Bedfordshire Crimebeat awards grants to groups with young people (anyone aged between 5 and 25) for projects which contain a significant element of crime and antisocial behaviour prevention, community safety or citizenship work. There can be adult involvement but the young people should be shaping the projects.
Grants are awarded to those groups have played an active role in finding positive alternatives to crime and disorder, raising social and environmental awareness, and reducing risks to health and safety, whilst all the time encouraging respect between different sections of the community.
The charity has supported many projects to date which have included tackling knife crime, underage drinking, drugs, vandalism, graffiti and more recently, text bullying and cyber-crime.
Bedfordshire Crimebeat Grants
Grants of up to £1000 are available for projects tackling issues of
- Anti-Social Behaviour
- Community Safety
- Crime
Hazard Alley Safety Centre
Funding is also available towards transport costs for Bedfordshire secondary & primary schools and those in special education with a wide range of needs to visit Hazard Alley Safety Centre in Milton Keynes. Funding towards the cost of transport for visits to Hazard Alley is limited to one visit per school in any three-year period.
Bedfordshire’s Crimebeat Application Form
Please click below to download Bedfordshire’s Crimebeat application form with supporting information or alternatively contact the team. We would like to visit your project and at this stage, help can be given to complete the application form.
To contact the team please email Bedscrimebeat@highsheriffofbedfordshire.org
We would hope that in receiving a grant, you would display a banner honouring our donation which we would provide, give the Bedfordshire Crimebeat charity social media coverage, monthly for a year and complete our Evaluation form.
National Crimebeat
For more information or to see news updates from National Crimebeat, please follow this link to their dedicated page http://www.national-crimebeat.com/
Bedfordshire Crimebeat – a registered charity in England and Wales number: 1081932