Cheshire Crimebeat (registered charity 1077203) exists to provide encouragement, mainly in the form of financial grants, for young people of Cheshire between the ages of 5 – 25 years of age to get involved with crime prevention, community safety or citizenship projects in their communities.
Cheshire Crimebeat’s charitable objects, taken directly from the charity’s governing document, are:
- To promote for the public benefit, and in particular for the young, a safer and increased quality of life through the prevention of crime and the protection of people of all ages and property from criminal acts
- To secure the advancement of education particularly amongst those between the ages of five years and twenty-five years of age but also for the public benefit generally in all matters relating to crime and to alcohol, drug and other solvent abuse at large
Since its launch in 1998 the charity has enabled the High Sheriff of Cheshire to play an active role in the prevention and reduction of juvenile crime with Cheshire Crimebeat being the main charity supported by each High Sheriff. Appropriate visits to projects are conducted by the High Sheriff in an endeavour to raise both an awareness of the particular scheme and publicity for it.
Since being founded, Cheshire Crimebeat has consistently delivered projects that place Cheshire’s young people at the heart of efforts to improve local quality of life. These youngsters have played an active role in finding positive alternatives to crime and disorder, raising social and environmental awareness and reducing risks to health and safety, whilst all the time encouraging respect between different sections of the community. Cheshire Crimebeat covers the entire Cheshire Constabulary area, i.e. the local authorities of Cheshire West & Chester, Cheshire East, Halton and Warrington.
Funding is awarded to projects which can meet the following criteria:-
- Projects should allow young people to tackle problems of their community themselves
- Sufficient appropriate adult support for the project should be present
- The project should contain a significant element of community safety or citizenship
- Projects should promote young people as valued members of the community
- Projects
should include as many diverse sections of the community as possible
Cheshire Crimebeat has supported over 4,500 projects from 1998
to date directly involving more than a quarter of a million young people across the
whole of Cheshire.
