Knife Crime Community Education

A key priority of CURV is the reduction of knife/weapon enabled offences and hospital admissions. 

All interventions commissioned, funded or partnered by CURV ultimately seek to help reduce these figures which currently account for 22% of all serious violences offences across Cleveland. 

The latest youth survey highlighted that 6% of young people indicated that they have carried a knife supported by previous analysis which highlights that this trend starts as early as primary school.

Working with community-based organisations and the education sector CURV plans to:

• Evaluate and build on existing commissioned interventions to reduce serious violence.

• Work with communities and young people to co-design place-based interventions.

• Develop an online education resource hub; bringing together recognised knife crime education lesson, workshops and teaching aids to assist education partners, parents, guardian and youth groups.

• Deliver a small grants fund to support Knife Crime Community Education activities and interventions.

What is the CURV Knife Crime Community Education Small Grants Fund?

The Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) with support from the CURV partnership has made available £40,000 which is open to local charitable or voluntary community sector organisationsto access a one-off grant that works towards reducing knife crime amongst young people by delivering against the following outcomes:

• Helping young people understand the potential consequences of picking up a knife.
• Supporting young people to make better choices if they ever consider picking up a knife.
• Providing young people with tools on what to do if they know someone is carrying a knife.

Applicants are able to apply for a maximum of £9,999 per project which must be delivered between 2^nd September 2024 to 31^st March 2025.

CURV Knife Crime Community Education Small Grants Fund – Guidance Notes (application, 198kB)

How do I apply?

To apply for the funding, it is important that you have thought through some basics.

These include the following:

• Are you a registered charity?
• Are you a voluntary community sector organisation?
• Has the project been funded previously by the PCC?
• How will your project address the requirements set out in the specification?
• What is the money for and how have you estimated the costs?
• What impact do you believe the intervention will make to the targeted cohort and how will you know that it has worked?
• How long will it take to implement and is everything and everyone ready to start?
• Who will be responsible for managing the money and how will you account for it?
• Is there anything that might stop the project from being successful that you think is important for us to know?

To submit an application please complete the fund application form that can be accessed below:

CURV Knife Crime Community Education Small Grants Fund – Application Form (application, 77kB)

Completed applications can be emailed.

Email to: [email protected]

Enquiries should be e mailed to the address above or contact the OPCC on 01642 301861

What next?

See the below table which sets out the key dates surrounding the CURV Knife Crime Community Education Small Grants Fund: