High Sheriff of West Yorkshire Fund 2021 – Creating safe communities

20 December 2021

The High Sheriff of West Yorkshire Fund supports projects working with young people to combat crime and create safe communities. Awards have recently been made in the sixth round of the programme, which is supported by the current High Sheriff of West Yorkshire, Clive Lloyd Esq.

In this round, 15 grants totalling £35,187 were awarded to Community Organisations across West Yorkshire. Their projects will run for up to one year.

The organisations that were awarded funding are:

- - - 2TSHIRTGANG CIC, Bradford
    - Advancement of Community Empowerment (CIC), Calderdale

- - - BHT Early Education & Training, Bradford
    - Burmantofts abc, Leeds
    - Calder Community Squash, Calderdale
    - Complete Woman CIC, Leeds
    - Cougar Foundation, Bradford

- - - e:merge (UK) Limited, Bradford
    - Guiseley Community Foundation, Leeds
    - Joint Activities & Motor Education Service (J.A.M.E.S), Bradford
    - Kumon Y’all, Kirklees
    - Manningham Mills Sports and Community Association, Bradford

- - - One in a Million, Bradford
    - St Luke’s Cares, Leeds
    - The Sangat Centre, Bradford

The funded activities include:

- - - Providing a safe and secure space in which young people are encouraged to express their emotional voice through healthy lifestyle activities.
    - Supporting young people with unmet needs to become mentors, including supporting a motor vehicle youth club for other young people, including those with disabilities.
    - A weekly group for young people to come together to plan and carry out social action projects in their community.
    - Empowering young people to work with West Yorkshire police to tackle the issue of burglaries and educating the community to better safeguard themselves from burglars.
    - Delivering a Consequences of Crime Programme to educate and deter young people from a life of crime.

These projects will join the 53 projects previously supported by the High Sheriff of West Yorkshire Fund since 2017, which have benefitted almost 5,000 people in total.

For more information on grants awarded, visit the What We’ve Funded page.