Cleveland Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC) gave grants totalling £147, 026.66 in 2023-24 to community organisations across Cleveland.
Summer 2023 grants
- Billingham Boxing Academy (BBA) – £1,500. Funding allowed BBA to run a boxing programme during the first four weeks of the summer holidays.
- Boosbeck Village Hall – £600. The grant supported a pirate-themed fun day in August 2023
- Hartlepool Rugby Football Club – £640. Funding supported 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 bought table tennis tables for the youth group
- St Ann’s Partnership, Stockton – £1,480.16. Funding helped the partnership to run summer play sessions.
- Hardwick in Partnership, Stockton – £926. The grant enabled the partnership to run outreach/detached work youth sessions during August 2023.
- Community Ventures, Middlesbrough – £1,500. Funding supported the Digging Deep allotment project. It aims to encourage the generations to get together to garden.
- Ladies of Steel, Dormanstown, Redcar – £1,500. The grant helped to upgrade existing youth club equipment as well as buy new kit.
- Hartlepool Huskies Basketball – £1,500. Funding let the club run its Take it to the Streets basketball coaching project in 10 specific areas of Hartlepool.
- The Shack, Stockton – £1,500. The grant helped The Shack to buy equipment, including a shed, for its gardening club.
- NEPACs – £1,491. Funding supported the BEEhave yourself project. It encouraged young people to design and create materials to use in a series of publicity campaigns to highlight the impact of ASB.
- Hazel Rockingham, Billingham – £1,500. The grant funded Neuro Linguistic Practitioner (NLP) workshops at BCT Aspire.
- Lingdale Village Hall – £1,500. Funding supported a range of free and low cost activities during the summer.
Autumn Activity Fund
The PCC awarded gave grants as part of the Autumn Activity Fund to the following:
- 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 the Pumpkins in the Park event.
- 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 on 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
Spring Activity Fund grants were given to the following:
- 4th Hartlepool Boys Brigade Company (£555.58) Funding was used to expand expand activities
- Kidz Konnekt (£4,000.00) Funding was used to deliver a week of actiivities during the half term and Easter in the South Bank/Greater Eston area.
- Junction Foundation Targeted Youth Support (£4,000.00) The grant covered the cost of outward bound activities during the February and Easter holidays.
- Hartlepool United Community Sports Foundation (£3,575.10) The grant funded football sessions during half-term and Easter.
- ARC Stockton Arts Centre (£750) Funding was used to work with young people from Primrose Hill Community Centre’s youth club.
- Tees Valley Community Church (The Shack) (£500) The grant supported a Community Fun Day during the Easter holidays.
- TeesstrHive CIC (£3,994.40). Funding supported the “Invo7ve” project. The project was based at Saltburn Community Centre.
- Teesside Vineyard Church (£2,860) Thornaby-based Teesside Vineyard Church used funding to deliver a youth social, a pizza party for primary-aged children and a breakfast and craft club.
- Middlesbrough Football Club Foundation (£4,000) Funding was used to expand the Premier League Kicks programme.
- Hartlepool Huskies (£3,810) The grant helped to deliver basketball camps in Hartlepool, Billingham and Stockton.
- Liverton Parochial Church Council (£1,400) Funding bought equipment for film and games nights
- Hartlepool PFC Trust (£1,790.00.) The grant was used to deliver a Play in the Park event in Seaton Park during the Easter holidays.
- Hartlepool Ambulance Charity (£2,000) Funding helped the charity to deliver First Aid Friends courses during the Easter holidays.
- Redcar Development Trust (£4,000) Funding was used to deliver holiday club sessions during half-term and Easter.
- Hope Church East Cleveland (£1,350) The grant paid for a free ice skating trip for 50 young people
- Taste of Africa (£4,000) Funding helped to run a series of workshops, teaching podcasting and video editing.
- Community Ventures (Middlesbrough) Ltd (£7,950) The grant funded a week’s worth of cycling workshops.
- Belle Vue Community Sports and Youth Centre Ltd (£3,832.00) Hartlepool-based Belle Vue Centre ran four activity days across February half-term and Easter holidays.
- Lingdale Village Hall (£4,000) Funding helped to deliver Building Pride in the Community. Activities. Sessions aimed at bringing young and old together.
- Play Out Hartlepool CIC/Hartlepool Victoria Ward Community Support Workers (£3,193.65.) Funding helped to pay for trips to Saltholme and Durham as well as set up nature walks and activities in Burn Valley.
- St Anns Partnership Ltd (£3,200.00) Funding was used to deliver taster days at a local gym, trips out and open days at the community centre.
- Kids Kabin (£811.80) The grant supported four activity days and a theatre trip.
- Roseberry Community Consortium (£1,350.00.) Funding covered the cost of delivering 10 workshops to help young people learn essential life skills and coping strategies
- People’s Meeples (£3,666.00.) The grant supported tabletop gaming activities for young people aged 11 to 16.
Police Property Act (PPA) Funding
The following 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
- Brake – £7,320.00 to cover the charity’s costs of supporting road traffic victims in Cleveland over the next 12 months.
- Justice First International Football Tournament – £2,000.00 to cover the cost of running the tournament on Saturday 15 June 2024 aimed at creating community cohesion
- Royal British Legion – £500.00 to cover the costs of holding a Festival of Remembrance event for the 80th Anniversary of the D Day Landings in June 2024