What is Bedfordshire Crimebeat?
Bedfordshire Crimebeat is a charity that supports young people to enable them to undertake projects which serve their community. Since its inception, the charity has enabled the High Sheriff of Bedfordshire to play an active role in the prevention and reduction of juvenile crime. Bedfordshire Crimebeat awards grants to groups of young people (anyone aged between 5 and 25) for projects which contain a significant element of community safety or citizenship work; allowing young people to tackle the problems within their community themselves.
Since its inception, Crimebeat has consistently supported projects that place young people at the heart of improving local quality of life. These youngsters 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 underage drinking, drugs, vandalism, graffiti and more recently, text bullying and cyber-crime.
Grants
Grants of up to £1000 are available for projects tackling issues of
- Anti-Social Behaviour
- Community Safety
- Crime
Funding is also available towards transport costs for lower, middle & primary schools and the lower age range academies 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.
For a grant please request our application form and return to info@highsheriffofbedfordshire.org.
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