PASS Activities

PASSDuring 2010 / 11 Partners Assuring a Safer Staffordshire (PASS) supported grant applications of 70 new projects with £63,000 worth of small grants (average grant being £885). Grants were given to encourage crime reduction and improve community safety.

The following listing of community projects supported by PASS funding is but a sample of the work carried out by community police officers, other agencies and volunteers that work together to make Staffordshire a safer place. The Trustees wish to take this opportunity of thanking all businesses and organisations that have supported PASS by making an annual donation and to invite other businesses to join and help ensure this community work in crime reduction and safety continues.

Projects granted funding by PASS 2010/11

02 Staffordshire Youth Anglers £400
For coaching sessions and workshops for local youth anglers to be held throughout the summer and autumn period. Group interacts with anglers of all age groups.		 03 Youth Boxing Training £985
To purchase boxing equipment for new project at local boxing club to hold training sessions to promote good form of discipline and respect for others.
05 Summer Fishing Tournament £400
To arrange fishing competition between young people of two wards during the school summer holidays to help build community relations.		 06 Blurton Residents Association £2,000
For the purchase of industrial gazebos to be used for community safety days to deliver crime prevention advice and information to residents in the area.
07 Adderley Green Residents Youth Club £2,000
PCSO’s from Biddulph working with young people have now established a youth theatre group. The young people get involved with all aspects of staging a performance. On the evenings that the activity takes place there has been a noted reduction in the reporting of incidents of anti social behaviour in Biddulph.		 08 Connecting Communities Festival £1,000
An active cricket club with junior members in rural Staffordshire needing security measures to the premises to prevent break-ins. The Police Crime Reduction Officer surveyed this site and made recommendations to the club to address vulnerable areas.
09 Operation Keep Safe £915
To provide property marking service to local residents following a rise of theft of bicycles and fishing equipment over the winter months.		 12 Teenage Kicks 2010 £1,100
Community project working with young people to provide variety of activities including football coaching with local football club .
15 Doxey Community Scheme £500
To help provide more activities for local youth facility to encourage more participation in local community events.		 16 Ches Bored £935
To run a 5-a-side football group in Chesterton, provide football coaches and equipment needed for the group to run.
17 Wombourne Amateur Boxing Club £2,000
Extension of the 'Right Stuff' project, to provide equipment needed to set up new facility in Wombourne to develop long term youth engagement .		 20 Cricket Outreach Sessions £600
Promotion of new cricket facility in Norton run by local volunteers, funding provided to purchase cricket equipment needed .
23 Oakamoor & South Moorlands Games £250
An 'olympic style' games was the intention for the community. PASS supported the group with a small grant and was able to put the group in contact with other funding sources.		 24 Cheadle & Blythe Bridge Rotary Fishing Competition £400
To provide opportunity for local youths to hold new fishing competition at 2 high class pools in the area to develop skills.
25 Crimestoppers Anonymous Call Number £2680
To help fund and promote the anonymous call number at events all over the County through supply of promotional pens and loop keyrings.		 27 Freshers Week Crime Prevention £400
To help crime prevention at Keele University promotional items distributed during Freshers week help to provide a timely reminder.
30 Audley Safer Communities £985
To purchase crime prevention equipment for local residents to help reduce the amount of shed and garage breaks in the area.		 31 Neo's 520 Community Hub £800
To help fund a DJ Package to be used by local youth club members to learn how to mix their own music and bring in new members into the club.
34 Mencap Citizen Watch £2,000
To help launch a new scheme which provides a safe place for people with learning disabilities in their communities who feel threatened.		 35 Staffordshire Anglers £875
To help the project expand their coaching programme and support disabled anglers with purchase of new equipment required.
36 Moorlands Feel Safe £1045
To purchase security equipment to be distributed to local residents to help with their fear of crime, project works closely with Neighbourhood Watch and Crimestoppers.		 37 Salvation Army Allotments £1,000
To purchase equipment to help set up new community allotments for local residents and promote healthy eating through onsite coffee shop.
38 Newcastle Volleyball Club £1,000
To facilitate extra training required for young leaders in the club to promote personnel development and to enable the club to progress to a National level.		 39 Norton Cricket Club £920
For the purchase of winter cricket nets for the club which enabled them to carry out winter coaching sessions and expand the membership.
40 DJ School - Urban Arts Project £1,000
To set up a new 'no limits' project to help break down barriers between young and old through weekly combined drop in sessions to promote crime prevention and confidence skills.		 42 Treetop Fencing £200
To install fencing at rear of residential garden to restrict access from local youths causing anti social behaviour preventing residents from using garden.
43 Birches Valley Gymnastics Club £1,000
Towards the purchase of new PA system to be used in training and competition sessions, fundraising events and presentations. This will enable the club to develop and expand further.		 44 Crime Prevention Biddulph £430
To purchase crime prevention items for distribution to local residents to offer reassurance – shed and garage alarms, vehicle packs and purse bells.
45 Project Plants £76
To purchase laurels to be planted by walkway to help block access to the rear of residential properties where there has been evident of anti social behaviour.		 46 Operation Keep Safe - Kidsgrove £735
To purchase security bike equipment to promote bike safety and security strips for section of fencing at rear of residential properties.
47 Biddulph Residents Barrier £335
Towards funding a security barrier for local residents to use to help prevent anti social behaviour on the cark park in the area.		 49 Horsewatch £535
To help produce security marked bridge badges and fitting for members of the Horsewatch scheme. Horsewatch has been taken up by 3 other police forces.
50 Chell Heath Rangers £460
Help local residents association to provide new kit for the local football team, coaching is provided by volunteers and take part in charity matches.		 51 Silkmore Partnership for Youth £1,000
To provide graffiti workshops to Stafford Youth Club for art project to create permanent mural onto storage container in local school.
52 Huntington Youth Club £1,000
To help provide more equipment for established youth club in the area and help to expand and include more members into the club.		 53 YMCA Climbing Development £2,000
To provide city centre facility with climbing and safety equipment to be used by the association in partnerships with connexions, Stoke College and Youth Offending.
55 Junior Grand Prix Competition £200
To support go karting competition between 2 wards within the Tunstall area over the school holidays to improve local relations between residents and young people in the area.		 56 Stanley Head Outwood Bounds £260
To help fund a course of team building and problem solving sessions for youth group in the Burslem area to be supervised by staff from Stanley Head.
57 Safer Madeley £1,180
To help purchase shock alarms and home security equipment for distribution to residents in the area to help crime prevention and the fear of crime.		 58 Glebeland Troops £345
To sponsor uniform for Stafford youth group to help promote the group and provide unity, they are supported by Stafford and Rural Homes and other local partners.
59 The Square Youth £800
To provide t-shirt design workshops and graffiti workshops to create a design for one of the interior walls at the local youth club in Meir.		 62 Right Stuff Blake Project £2,000
To set up new boxing project in the Blake area of Cannock under the 'Right Stuff' banner, providing necessary boxing equipment for the club.
63 Endon Cricket Club £400
To purchase new training equipment for junior cricket coaching sessions at local cricket club at Leek – project to run from January-September 2011.		 65 Swynnerton Youth Club £85
To purchase new equipment for local youth club.
66 Burton Caribbean Association £500
Towards the purchase of replacement equipment for a local youth club run by Turnabout Youth Project who fund the rest of the project.		 68 Beverley Drive Residents Association £480
To provide crime prevention items for distribution to local vulnerable residents in Bentilee, an estate with a high crime rate for burglary.
69 Rolleston Scout Group £1315
Towards the purchase of a projector system to be used centrally for a variety of training sessions for all neighbouring scout units.		 72 Tamworth & Lichfield Sea Cadets £900
For sponsorship of new sports kit for the cadets to supplement their provided uniform, cadets attend from a cross section of the community.
73 Rugeley Young Peoples Partnership £460
Help local residents association to provide new kit for the local football team, coaching is provided by volunteers and take part in charity matches.		 74 Speed Enforcement £500 (1)
To part fund a speed enforcement device to be used by all the local officers in the Madeley area, supported by local council.
75 Gifted DJ Workshop £500
Towards providing DJ workshop sessions to be delivered by approved experienced instructors. Gifted work with Connexions and local partners.		 76 SP Boxercise £1,000 (2)
To provide community events for local residents including Boxercise, Football, Computer Classes and Crime Prevention advice and equipment.
79 Amateur Boxing Awards £500
To fund purchase of boxing awards and certificates for project engaging local youths in educational boxing sessions and informal partnership sessions.		 80 Fishing for Fun £700 (2)
To fund equipment needed for fishing competition at Madeley – project building bridges between younger and older members of the community.
82 Bogus Caller Packs £685
Following on from distraction burglaries in the area, crime prevention equipment provided to distribute to vulnerable resident to help reduce the fear of crime.		 83 YMCA Boxing Project £1,500
To provide replacement boxing equipment for centrally located well established boxing club, full qualified instructors provided.
85 Allotment Security £375
Following on from reports of damage and theft on allotment site, security and crime prevention equipment provided for plot holders to help prevent further crime.		 86 Blythe Community Cricket Club £2,000
Towards creating a new coaching area the club to be used by the youth teams, sponsorship also obtained by the club from local companies.
87 RIOT (Recovery Is Out There) £2,000
To help fund a lease vehicle to be used by the service user group bringing drug and alcohol abuse sessions to children across the County.		 88 & 89 Football Posts £1,172
To provide goal posts and nets for two 7-a-side football teams in Draycott and Marchington to be sited in isolated rural areas of community.
92 Tamyouth Katakanoeing £1,900
To purchase a Katakanoe craft to be used by a number of youth centres in the area, local schools and volunteer groups.		 93 Crime Prevention Biddulph £430
To supply crime prevention and security equipment to help fear of crime and prevention - to be distributed to local residents during police surgeries.
94 ROC Café £1,700
To provide equipment and accessories needed by youth centre in Cobridge, work closely with local residents group and local church based voluntary groups.		 97 Koncas Youth Club £400
To fund photography workshop sessions at local youth centre in Norton Canes.
100 Operation Amalgam £2,000 (1)
To fund smart water marking kits and ultra violet light enforcement kits for vulnerable venues across the County to prevent metal theft.		 101 Junior Fire Fighters Scheme £1,760
To support Fire Service to continue to run local cadet scheme, providing student personal protective equipment, scheme also supported by local funding.
102 Wombourne Boxing Club £360
To fund a boxing tutors course for some of the club members enabling the club to expend further and take on new members.		 103 Newcastle Community Safety £420
Following increase in theft from vehicles crime prevention equipment supplied to increase community safety for local residents.
104 Community Café Tamworth £640
To purchase equipment for café and provide sports coaching sessions for an intergenerational project set up in the centre of the community.		  

(1) Projects funded or part funded by SCC Community Safety
(2) Projects part funded by SCC Community Safety