Community Cashback
Crooks' cash benefits Cambridgeshire projects!
Four publicly nominated Cambridgeshire projects will benefit from a cash boost, thanks to an initiative that sees criminals’ ill-gotten gains reinvested into the community.
Cambridgeshire Criminal Justice Board chair Tom Jefford announced that three youth projects and a scheme helping elderly residents to protect their homes against burglars will receive Community Cashback grants totalling £95,000.
Community Cashback gives people a direct say in how criminals’ ill-gotten gains can be used to benefit their communities in the fight against crime.
Under the scheme money and assets recovered by the courts are reinvested in local projects aimed at cutting crime and antisocial behaviour.
Over the summer people were invited to have their say on 16 shortlisted Community Cashback projects in Cambridgeshire. That feedback was taken into account when selecting grant recipients.
As a result the Cambridgeshire Criminal Justice Board will award Community Cashback grants to a Waterbeach youth club (£50,000), Soham Youth Café (£20,000), Stilton Sk8z (£15,000) and the Bobby Scheme (£10,000).
Mr Jefford, who also heads Cambridgeshire Youth Support Services, said: “Stripping criminals of their assets is critical to the fight against crime. I’m delighted this money will be used to fund such worthwhile projects.”