Place-based

Introduction to place-based funding

We know that a lot of violent crime happens in very specific local areas. To make a difference, we need to work with the people and organisations who live and work there – they know their communities best.

We’ll do this through our place-based grant rounds, which defines place-based work as:

Organised effort across a defined geography to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence in a way that is responsive to local need and context.

There are three main strands to our place-based approach:

Our Neighbourhood Fund

The Neighbourhood Fund will test different models and approaches to community engagement to better understand how, where and why it can keep children safe from involvement in violence.

Agency Collaboration Fund

We know that many children at risk of becoming involved in violence are known to local agencies. Yet this knowledge is often fragmented across multiple organisations, with different people holding different pieces of the puzzle. Opportunities where agencies could and should work together are sometimes missed. To help understand where those opportunities are, we’re investing in our Agency Collaboration Fund. We’ll run evaluations to find out the most effective ways agencies can work together to identify and support the children most at risk.

Violence Reduction Units (VRUs)

We’re committed to supporting Violence Reduction Units to help them make sustainable, evidence-based change in their areas.

Questions?

If you have a question about our place-based work, please read our FAQs.