Safer Streets Fund
Published 25 October 2023
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£42 million has been allocated through Round Five of the Safer Streets Fund to tackle neighbourhood crime, violence against women and girls (VAWG) and anti-social behaviour (ASB).
Since the Safer Streets Fund launched in 2020, the government has invested £125 million through four rounds of the Safer Streets Fund, and the Safety of Women at Night Fund across England and Wales. Round Five was launched on 6 July 2023. For the first time, a direct funding approach was adopted. As a result, every police force area across England and Wales was offered up to £1 million to bid for delivering a range of interventions over the period from 1 October 2023 to 31 March 2025. The intended additional investment through Round Five brings the total to £167 million to date funding 413 projects across England and Wales.
Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) were invited to submit up to three proposals for their areas, consulting relevant local authorities and other partners in their area. All proposals that were submitted were assessed by the Home Office to ensure they met the terms of the scheme. All of the proposals submitted by PCCs were approved in full.
The funding will go towards measures proven to prevent neighbourhood crime, including the roll out of additional CCTV, street lighting, alleygating and improving the security of properties at risk of neighbourhood crime based on needs assessment for burglary hotspot areas and remote locations. The funding will also be used to deliver Neighbourhood Watch schemes, involving community-led initiatives to prevent crime and help ensure suspicious activity is reported.
Other interventions will be aimed at changing attitudes and behaviours in relation to VAWG in the public domain through educational activities and behavioural change programmes. The focus will also be on the night-time economy and working with local businesses to keep women safe and raise awareness of VAWG in local pubs and bars.
Tackling ASB continues to be a government priority and force areas will also be delivering ASB interventions. Some examples include outreach activities, educational programmes focused on attitudinal and behavioural change and media comms campaigns to encourage the public to report ASB.
A full list of Safer Streets Round Five funding allocations is as follows:
| PCC area | Region | Project location(s) | Grant funding allocated (£) across 2023-24 and 2024-25 | Number of projects |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avon & Somerset | South West England | Weston-Super-Mare, Yeovil, Bridgwater, Taunton, Bath, and Bristol | £1,000,000.00 | 3 |
| Bedfordshire | East of England | Luton, Leighton Buzzard, Flitwick and Dunstable. | £1,000,000.00 | 3 |
| Cambridgeshire | East of England | Peterborough, Huntingdonshire, Wisbech and Cambridge City Centre | £1,000,000.00 | 3 |
| Cheshire | North West England | Warrington, Ellesmere Port and Crewe. | £1,000,000.00 | 3 |
| City of London | Greater London | Tourist hotspots in City of London, Lambeth, Southwark and Westminster boroughs. | £948,237.00 | 1 |
| Cleveland | North East England | Middlesborough, Stockton on Tees, Hartlepool | £999,999.84 | 3 |
| Cumbria | North West England | Carlisle, Workington and Penrith | £1,000,000.00 | 3 |
| Derbyshire | East Midlands | Derby City, Chesterfield, Ripley, Buxton, Heanor, Belper, Ripley, and Alfreton | £999,540.00 | 3 |
| Devon and Cornwall | South West England | Paignton, Camborne and Redruth | £999,998.64 | 2 |
| Dorset | South West England | Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole, Weymouth, Wimborne, Dorchester, Blandford, Lyme Regis, Shaftesbury, Swanage, Sherborne and Portland. | £964,055.00 | 3 |
| Durham | North East England | Murton, Wheatley Hill, Blackhall and Darlington | £1,000,000.00 | 3 |
| Dyfed Powys | South Wales | County wide, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire, Powys, Aberystwyth, Carmarthen, Llanelli, Ammanford, Haverfordwest, Milford Haven, Pembroke and Pembroke Dock | £975,481.36 | 3 |
| Essex | South East England | Halstead, Colchester (Mild End Ward) and Basildon | £999,966.73 | 3 |
| Gloucestershire | South West England | Cheltenham, Gloucester, Forest of Dean, Stroud, Tewkesbury and Cotswolds. | £1,000,000.00 | 3 |
| Greater Manchester | North West England | Bury, Whitefield, Moorside, Radcliffe, Bolton and Manchester City Centre. | £997,639.00 | 3 |
| Gwent | South Wales | Liswerry, Ebbw Vale, Crosskeys, Llantarnam, Pontnewydd, Stow Hill and Maindee | £700,553.12 | 2 |
| Hampshire | South East England | Portsmouth, Isle of Wight, Gosport, Havant, Fareham, Eastleigh, Southampton, Winchester, New Forest, Test Valley, Basingstoke & Deane, Rushmoor and Hart | £1,000,000.00 | 3 |
| Hertfordshire | East of England | Hertford, Bedwell (Stevenage) and Hatfield | £781,275.00 | 3 |
| Humberside | Yorkshire and Humberside | Crosby and Kingston upon Hull | £999,939.92 | 2 |
| Kent | South East England | Folkestone, Sittingbourne, Sheerness and Chatham | £944,064.35 | 3 |
| Lancashire | North West England | Ormskirk, Lancaster, Blackpool, Blackburn, Darwen, Burnley, Accrington and Rawtenstall. | £1,000,000.00 | 3 |
| Leicestershire | East Midlands | Charnwood, Leicester, Melton, Harborough, Oadby and Wigston | £960,591.44 | 3 |
| Lincolnshire | East Midlands | Sleaford, Spalding, Lincoln, Grantham and Skegness | £992,655.00 | 3 |
| Merseyside | North West England | St Helens Town Centre, Liverpool (Kensington and Fairfield ward), and Prescot. | £912,766.74 | 3 |
| MOPAC | Greater London | Lewisham, Haringey (Bruce Grove area) and Croydon town centre | £990,324.28 | 3 |
| Norfolk | East of England | Norwich, Great Yarmouth and Thetford | £936,303.13 | 2 |
| North Wales | Wales | Rhyl West, Holywell, Glyn, Grosvenor, Brynffynon, Smithfield and Queensway | £973,230.36 | 3 |
| North Yorkshire | Yorkshire and Humber & North East England | Scarborough, York, Harrogate and Craven | £999,519.13 | 2 |
| Northamptonshire | East Midlands | Northampton, Corby, Wellingborough and Kettering | £646,570.00 | 3 |
| Northumbria | North East England | South Tyneside, North Tyneside, Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland, Northumberland, Newcastle, Blyth, Ashington, Bedlington | £1,000,000.00 | 3 |
| Nottinghamshire | East Midlands | Bingham, Woodthorpe, Beeston, Worksop, Balderton, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Mansfield | £999,999.70 | 3 |
| South Wales | Wales | Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Cardiff, Vale of Glamorgan and Mid Glamorgan. | £980,212.00 | 3 |
| South Yorkshire | Yorkshire and Humber | Sheffield, Barnsley and Rotherham | £993,311.00 | 3 |
| Staffordshire | West Midlands | Longton, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent and Cannock | £1,000,000.00 | 2 |
| Suffolk | East of England | Lowestoft, Ipswich, Bury St Edmunds, Haverhill, Newmarket, Sudbury, Stowmarket, Mildenhall and Brandon. | £991,022.60 | 3 |
| Surrey | South East of England | Walton-on-Thames, Redhill and Guildford | £996,100.00 | 3 |
| Sussex | South East of England | Sussex-wide, Brighton and Hove, Eastbourne and Crawley. | £993,456.65 | 3 |
| Thames Valley | South East of England | High Wycombe town centre, Slough town centre, Oxford town centre, Newbury, South Vale and West Oxfordshire Local Authority areas | £1,000,000.00 | 3 |
| Warwickshire | West Midlands | Leamington, Nuneaton, Stratford-upon-Avon, Atherstone, Polesworth and Rugby | £1,000,000.00 | 3 |
| West Mercia | West Midlands | Herefordshire, Worcester, Shropshire, Wyre Forest, Telford, Redditch, Wychavon, Oswestry, Shrewsbury Evesham, Leominster | £999,025.00 | 3 |
| West Midlands | West Midlands | Walsall, Wolverhampton, Sandwell, Dudley, Birmingham, Solihull, Coventry and West Midlands force area wide | £999,238.53 | 3 |
| West Yorkshire | Yorkshire and Humber | Bradford, Leeds and Wakefield | £1,000,000.00 | 3 |
| Wiltshire | South West England | Salisbury and Swindon | £998,244.64 | 3 |
| Total | £41,673,321.16 | 121 |