Safe and Sound Communities Fund

The Plan is framed around three missions that span police, fire and rescue, community safety and criminal justice. It is a strategy that will help us to work in partnership to best serve victims and communities across the county.

The three missions are:

1. A drive to rebuild trust and confidence with visible and accessible community services in both towns and rural areas
2. A focus on professionalism and standards
3. Developing stronger public safety partnerships. This will mean tackling shared challenges across community safety and criminal justice agencies.

The four policy tests are:

1. Safer communities – confident, engaged and protected
2. Safer victims – the heart of a stronger public safety system
3. Sound leadership – high standards and quality services
4. Sound money management – innovation, efficiency and social value.

The fund will prioritise projects supporting children, women and young people, with grants between £1,000 and £10,000 available.

To be successful, groups will need to showcase how their project can reduce harm or offending, improve community engagement or support vulnerable people across the county.

Grants – Albanian Cultural Association

If successful, groups are required to provide updates and feedback on their project, and to provide copies of invoices and receipts to evidence your spend. Any underspend will have to be returned to the OPFCC in a timely manner. You will also be expected to acknowledge the OPFCC in any publicity about your grant.

Apply now:

To apply for this fund please complete the below forms and along with the required supporting documentation send it to funding@northantspfcc.gov.uk

If you would like to discuss your project or have any questions around the Safe and Sound Grant please email Louise Sheridan or Kate Osborne at the above email address

The fund will not support capital and building costs. It will also not cover more than 50% salary costs.

Applications are screened for their eligibility and due diligence checks are conducted before consideration.

Required forms:

• Application form
• Project budget form 2025 26 – please include as much detail as possible to allow us to fully assess the eligibility and achievability of the project and its associated costs
•  Conflict of interest form
• Project reference form

Required supporting documentation:

• Constitution or governing document
• A signed copy of two recent bank statements
• A copy of your most recent set of accounts
• Child protection or safeguarding policy if your project involves working with children
• Vulnerable adults or safeguarding policy if your project involves working with vulnerable adults
• Quotes for the work – if your project involves the purchase of goods or equipment you will need to obtain quotes for this to evidence the costs
• If applicable – copies of insurance documents such as public liability

This is a new scheme in line with the Commissioner’s Public Safety plan 2025-2030 for information about grants awarded through this scheme please see here.

For information about grants awarded through the previous schemes please see here or visit our news pages for updates on our most recently awarded grants.