Examples of Crimebeat Schemes
Anti Bullying Campaign
This is a group of young people from Exmouth Youth Action and the University of Plymouth, Exmouth Campus. The project is aiming to raise awareness of bullying in schools in the Exmouth area. The group is compiling a resource 'Bully Pack', producing a drama production to take to schools, making a short film and setting up a website. For more information contact Brian O'Brien on 07966 730194.
Funding Recieved £500
Appledore Community Primary School, North Devon
The pupils of year six at Appledore Community Primary School are taking part in an initiative to make videos relating to child safety around the Appledore area. It is intended that these videos can be used as a resource for other organisations involving young people throughout the county. They are being assisted by other community organisations including the local Fire Brigade and also the School Crossing Patrol Person. They wish to buy a video camera to use on this project and will make this facility available to other community organisations in the locality for similar projects.
Funding Recieved £500
Barley Lane Boys
This is a group of pupils from Barley Lane School in Exeter who applied to Crimebeat to turn a patch of waste ground within the school into a garden area where they can go to relax when things get too much for them. Barley Lane is a provision for 11 to 16 year old boys who find it hard to stay in mainstream education. The garden is seen as a way of encouraging the group to become involved in their surroundings and to give them a sense of ownership. This in turn will give them a positive experience. For more information contact Jackie Chamberlin on 01392 686688.
Funding Recieved £500
Bere Alston 'Berey Skaters', West Devon
A group of young people from Bere Alston near Tavistock in West Devon has won the support of the local parish council to add a skateboard ramp to their local park area for other young people to use, following their fund raising activities to improve facilities for the young in the village. The young people of Bere Alston introduced this scheme in order to divert vulnerable young people from possible causes of anti-social behaviour in other parts of the area which often lead on to nuisance and criminal activity.
Funding Recieved £500
Bideford College Connexions Team
This group of pupils are producing labels to stick on the walls of classrooms and offices at the school, near to the doors and light switches to remind pupils and staff to close and lock doors and windows at the end of the day. The school has been subject of theft, burglary and vandalism and this initiative is designed to try to reduce the level of crime at the college.
Funding Recieved £183
Bideford College Princes Trust XL Group
This group aims to develop make use of a piece of land on one of the largest council estates in the Bideford area. This is an area where there is very little for young people to do and where a high number of young people perceive that they are constantly in trouble with the police. They plan to make an area for 5-a-side football pitch with vandal proof goal posts as well as having basket ball hoops each end. They intend installing seating and a grafiti wall. Their intention is to involve as much of the community in the area as possible in the project to reduce the high crime levels on the estate. They have sought funding and assistance from numerous organisations and authorities and have a £15,000 Princes Trust Millennium Award pending for this project. The local District Council have given the land to the team and will pay for public liability insurance. All together the District Council input in £70,000 and the authority has undertaken to look after the land once the project is complete
Funding Recieved £500
Bideford College XL Group
This group of students have formed five teams of five members and are engaged in the XL programme at the college. They are designing Crime Prevention and Community Safety leaflets aimed at reducing crime in the Bideford area.
Funding Recieved £471
Bideford College XL Team
This group of students from the XL Programme are producing a video aimed at reducing crime in the Bideford area. The video is to highlight why youths in Bideford cause damage to property. It aims at reducing the effects of crime in particular to council-owned property in the town.
Support of video production facilities
Checkout - Exeter
This project is based in the Exeter area and involves young people from the lesbian, gay and bisexual community (or those who are unsure about their sexual orientation), There are few, if any, support structures in place in Devon to support these young people in respect to accessing appropriate information and feeling safe. The group wishes to set up a youth service to serve young people from this often discriminated against community, to support them and to reduce instances of homophobic bullying by providing a safe and empowering environment.
Funding Recieved £500
Chumleigh Community College
This group have been running a Peer Education Programme for about a year and sought funding to continue their work when their initial funding came to an and. They go into other schools and colleges throughout the county offering support and advice for students.
Funding Recieved £500
Community Action, Barnstaple
The Community Action Group is based at Barnstaple but wish to provide peer support to young people throughout the North Devon area by organising events for young people, aiming to divert their attention away from antisocial behaviour which they feel leads to juvenile crime and other similar issues. They will do this by providing discos and similar events at various locations in the Barnstaple and North Devon area.
Funding Recieved £500
Drugs CD-ROM Project
This scheme comes from a 21 year old student at Plymouth University who is studying Media Arts with English as a degree course. He is developing an interactive Drugs awareness CD Rom for young people. The plan is to develop this interactive media and to distribute it to the youth affairs officers throughout the county as a supportive resource when delivering the drugs education message. He is applied for funding for the cost of software, resources and development costs as well as production and marketing.
Funding Recieved £500
The Elim Pentecostal Church R.I.O.T Youth Club at Paignton
This project aims to reduce crime and raise community awareness by providing out of hour activities for young people in the Bere Alston peninsula. This will go some way to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour because the young people will have their time committed by useful projects. The ‘Getting There’ project provides scooters for young people with appropriate support, to get to work and to find jobs. The team wish to provide facilities for proper training off road for motor cycle users in the area with qualified staff.
Funding Recieved £500
‘Girlzone’ - Holsworthy
This group is based at the Holsworthy Community College and the Community centre, they wish to set up a peer support service dealing primarily with the problems of bullying within the college. They wanted funding to provide leaflets and other resources to support their work within the college community.
Funding Recieved £500
The Harbour Centre, Plymouth
The "Bottle Out" Drama Group is based in the North Prospect area of Plymouth, an area of high unemployment and social difficulties. The group has been in existence for some time and has produced a play, aimed at tackling the effects of alcohol abuse and misuse by adults within the family unit. The members now wish to put their performance onto a video package to expand their audience.
Funding Recieved £500
Here 2 Help, Peer Support
This group is an existing peer support team based within Ilfracombe Community College. It applied to 'Crimebeat' to expand its service within the school. The grant has been used to purchase a selection of giant games to provide isolated young people with an activity, giving them a chance to build confidence and improve self-esteem. Being run by the peer supporters within the school, it is hoped that this provision will encourage more young people to use their services. For more information contact Johnny Bowden on 01271 864171.
Funding Recieved £500
Islamic ‘Video Nation’ - Devon
This project involves a young Muslim man who wishes to put together a video highlighting issues which affect young people of the Islamic faith in the Exeter and surrounding area. Such issues include the lack of facilities in Devon for worship and also the problems of racial discrimination, bullying and intolerance.
Funding Recieved £500
KOOLBOX Mobile Youth Provision
KOOLBOX is a project based in the Plympton and Plymouth area and involved using a former horsebox vehicle converted to provide an information / advice / workshop centre for young people at risk in the Plymouth area. The KOOLBOX will reach out to those young people that are unable to access or receive youth provision in their area. The project will also tackle problems of anti social behaviour and community safety.
Funding Recieved £500
Okehampton 'Teens to Twenties'
This group, based at the Okehampton Community Centre wish to get across to the community what it is like to be a teenager in Okehampton through the medium of photographs. They plan to sow adults and authorities that there are few facilities for teenagers in the town and they intend taking photographs of places around the area which could be developed into venues for teenagers to use for activities. Eventually they plan to hold an exhibition in the town which proves that teenagers "aren't all that bad".
Funding Recieved £500
Plymouth Foyer - Graffiti Project
The project involved primarily the young people who live at The Foyer. A number of the younger residents felt that they wanted to start a graffiti project, which would significantly create a more comfortable and informal atmosphere around the Foyer as well as giving the residents a sense of ownership. They have obtained donated boards from a local builder’s merchant and the project is funding a facilitator to supervise and direct the project. They intend holding workshops and longer-term projects and in the long run this will help to reduce the opportunities for the young people involved to become involved in crime and other social nuisances.
Funding Recieved £500
Rampless Riders of Ivybridge
This project is a large-scale scheme to provide a skateboard park and facilities in Ivybridge. The town is one of the fastest growing towns in Europe. The team have raised over £10,000 towards the scheme with grants from local authorities and charitable bodies as well as local fund-raising initiatives. A skatepark would provide young people in the town somewhere to meet and take them away from the streets where they are the subject of complaints and vulnerable to the urges to indulge in inappropriate behaviour and criminal activity.
Funding Recieved £500
Tiverton BMX Club
This group of young people wish to build some portable BMX ramps for use by young BMX cyclists in the town as for well as roller-blading and skateboarding. The ramps are portable so can be taken to various venues, thus increasing the audience that they can cater for. The young people themselves feel that the existing facilities in the town do not meet with the needs of the young people who are subject to the possible causes of anti-social behaviour in other parts of the area, which often lead on to nuisance and criminal activity.
Funding Recieved £500
TREADS Junk Converters Project
TREADS is an initiative run by the Devon Youth Association aimed at giving young people in the Barnstaple area the chance to acquire new skills and qualifications in the areas of vehicle maintenance and safer driving attitudes. The initiative also challenges the attitudes and behaviour of young people who are at risk of offending. The group applied to Crimebeat to assist in building an entry to the National Youthbike Competition. This entry will be a trike based on a Yamaha X55 motorcycle.
Funding Recieved £500
TREADS Karting Project
TREADS is an initiative run by the Devon Youth Association aimed at giving young people in the Plymouth area the chance to acquire new skills and qualifications in the areas of vehicle maintenance and safer driving attitudes. The initiative also challenges the attitudes and behaviour of young people who are at risk of offending. The group applied to Crimebeat to assist in building a go kart, which could be reproduced enabling the young people of Plymouth to get involved in Grand Prix style events and keep out of trouble. For more information contact Sue Halsey on 01752 261832.
Funding Recieved £500
