Children to choose organisations in Everton and Vauxhall to get funding in crime crackdown

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Deadline: Friday 28 March 2025.

Community clubs and groups working in Everton and Vauxhall can apply for up to £5,000 in funding as part of a crackdown on serious and organised crime.

The participatory budget scheme, intended to strengthen community resilience by boosting funding to local clubs and groups, will have a total funding pot of £50,000 provided by Merseyside Police and Crime Commissioner and Merseyside Police.

Everton and parts of Vauxhall have recently been designated a Clear, Hold, Build area – a national scheme designed by the Home Office to tackle serious and organised crime and improve areas so they become places people love to live, work and visit.

This is the fourth Clear, Hold, Build project in Merseyside, where they are known as EVOLVE areas, that see police working with partners and residents to disrupt and deter gangs from operating and building brighter futures.

Those applying for the funding at the event can be from either a voluntary or community group and must benefit or be accessible to residents in Everton and Vauxhall but can be based elsewhere.

They must also ensure their bid has a connection to at least one of the following:

• Reducing or addressing crime and anti-social behaviour
• Protecting vulnerable people from becoming victims of crime and anti-social behaviour
• Supporting victims of crime or anti-social behaviour
• Tackling County Lines.

Applications are to be submitted online via Evolve.EvertonVauxhall@merseyside.police.uk.

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