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Charity and Voluntary Sector
BIG: Thousands of young people can avoid becoming involved in criminal activity and anti-social behaviour through a Big Lottery Fund investment that will extend massively the reach of 25 projects that have already been shown to work.
The tried & tested interventions - several of which are being introduced to the UK for the first time – are some of the most well evidenced crime prevention projects presently operating in the UK or internationally. Now, following a BIG investment of £25m, they will be scaled up & rolled out across the UK to improve the prospects of around a quarter of a million 8-14 year olds and reduce first-time offending.
SE: Communities across the country have started bidding for a share of £2m to protect & improve their local sports playing fields. The National Lottery investment is on offer in the latest round of Sport England’s Protecting Playing Fields fund to enhance local playing fields or create new sports pitches.
BIG: Bardon Mill and Henshaw Village Hall & Community Projects Group has received the funding recently to build the partially underground hall on the site of the former Bardon Mill Colliery which closed in 1973. The Going Underground project is one of 101 across the country receiving a total of £23m in grants from BIG’s Reaching Communities programme, which funds projects that help those most in need & builds stronger communities.
Press release & links
Press release & links
BHF: The British Heart Foundation’s shops are joining forces with over 5,500 other charity shops in the UK - as part of the Charity Retail Association ‘Choose Charity Shops’ campaign - to generate more over-the-counter donations.
DCMS: More than 10m people have taken part in thousands of projects in sport, the arts and volunteering. Recently UK Inspire Day celebrated the 2,700 exceptional projects that have been inspired by the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, with events taking place across the UK to encourage people to do something special in their local communities.
CO: For every £1 spent on National Citizen Service (NCS) up to £2 is being returned to the communities & young people who took part, according to new independent analysis published by a consortium led by NatCen Social Research.
The success of NCS means the Government is now expanding the programme from 30,000 places in 2012 up to 90,000 by 2014. This will mean that the Government will invest around £200m into young people’s futures, but could reap £400m in benefits to communities.
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