Guidance

Safer Streets Fund round 4 application process

Funding is available for interventions aimed at tackling neighbourhood crime, anti-social behaviour and VAWG, improving the safety of public spaces for all.

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Safer Streets Fund round 4 application process

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Details

Round 4 (running across the 2022/23 and 23/24 financial years and worth £75 million) of the Safer Streets Fund will fund initiatives that will combine and expand previous focuses of the Safer Streets Fund and SWaN Fund through targeting neighbourhood crime, VAWG and anti-social behaviour, in areas across England and Wales disproportionately and persistently impacted by these crime types/issues.

The main aims of the fund are to:

  • reduce neighbourhood crime: domestic burglary, robbery, theft from person, vehicle crime
  • reduce anti-social behaviour
  • reduce VAWG in public spaces (including the night-time economy)
  • increase feelings of safety from VAWG and ASB in public places
  • a combination of the above

The fund will be open to:

  • Police and Crime Commissioners
  • Local authorities
  • The British Transport Police
  • Eligible Civil Society Organisations

The guidance for bidders covers:

  • bidder eligibility
  • eligible activity
  • area eligibility
  • consultation requirements
  • funding timeline
  • evaluation
  • application process

Bidding period

This funding round is now closed. Find out more about the previous application rounds.

Published 18 March 2022
Last updated 8 August 2022 + show all updates
  1. Funding for round 4 has ended.

  2. First published.