Projects

Crimbeat is happy to support the town's Bluez n Zuz project with more funding to help sustain it and cover ongoing costs.

Crimebeat has agreed funding to help sustain this newly formed voluntary group into its second year. funding will cover hall hire, sports sessions and youth worker costs.

Crimebeat is delighted to be able to fund this two day 32 mile hike around the Salisbury Plain Imber range path. Funding will enable this group of young people the opportunity to challenge themselves both physically and mentally and will cover the cost of food, fuel, camping and equipment expenses.

Photos to be added - watch this space!

On the Saturday before half term we ran our ‘Family Portraits’ project at Bradon Forest School. This project was a partnership collaboration with Wootton Bassett Extended Schools, who partly funded the project, Wiltshire & Swindon Crimebeat, who were the main funders, Splash who project managed the day and Community Artists, ‘No Added Sugar’...

Crimebeat is pleased to support Atworth Youth Club in its bid to run an additional youth clubs sessions for its older young people. The club is keen to offer these sessions for the over 14s who attend the club - somewhere they can have their own space to 'hang out.' The funding will pay for three part-time youth workers, premises renta...

Young people with an interest in graffiti art applied to Crimebeat for funding for paint and a graffiti facilitator to assist them in the painting of a large art piece on the wall of the centre where they meet every week. The young people also painted a youth shelter outside the centre which had been vandalised.
There has been lots of pos...

Chippenham Police have been helped, with funding from Crimebeat, to follow the example of other Neighbourhood Policing Teams in the area in providing a Bluez n Zuz disco for young people in the town.
See Wiltshire Police Website for updates on the latest Bluez n Zuz events.

Crimebeat is pleased to support with funding the Marlborough Neighbourhood Policing Teams with their Bluez n Zuz discos in the town.
See Wiltshire Police Website for updates on the latest Bluez n Zuz events.

Crimebeat has helped fund a planned trip to Pencelli Outdoor Adventure Centre for a group of young people from the Penhill and Pinehurst area of Swindon who have been working on a fitness project with the local Youth Worker and PCSO (Police Community Support Officer)

Crimebeat is pleased to support with funding the Corsham Neighbourhood Policing Teams with their Bluez n Zuz discos in the town.
See Wiltshire Police Website for updates on the latest Bluez n Zuz events.

Calne Neighbourhood Policing Team provide and supervise a Bluez n Zuz disco on the second Friday of every month for young people aged between 12 -16 years. These discos are held in Calne Town Hall between 7-9.30pm. Crimebeat funding has supported the work of Calne Police in providing this activity in the town.
See Wiltshire Police Website...

Wiltshire & Swindon Crimebeat is pleased to help support the work of the Bluez n Zuz discos in Devizes. This project, set up by PC Adam Hall, has been running once a month on a Friday evening very successfully for well over a year now, providing a safe and secure setting for a fun evening for young people in Devizes and the surrounding area....

A donation of £2000 was handed over to Bluez n Zuz by the former Deputy Chief Constable of Wiltshire Police, Mr Stephen Long in the presence of the Chief Constable, Mr Brian Moore, the High Sheriff, Mr Robert Floyd and the previous High Sheriff, Mrs Madeline Wilks.
The money was raised as part of Mr Long's bike ride (as mentioned on...

Press Release from St John's School Marlborough

Thanks to a grant from Wiltshire Crimebeat, students from Year 8 at St John’s School in Marlborough were lucky enough to watch a dance production of ‘Dyin 2 b Drunk’ last week, a show that is currently on tour across England. Dyin 2 b Drunk is a dance theatre production for teenagers, d...

Crimebeat were delighted to fund the first 'extended' Salamander project which took place in Calne. This project which commenced in December 2007 and culminated in a celebration/presentation evening at Calne Fire Station in February 2008 in the presence of many local dignatories including, The Chief Fire Officer & The Chief Const...

AIM OF PROJECT

As part of the school's Year 9 Industry Day last year, a group of students were asked to look at Crimebeat's new strategy and develop an image which represented it.

Tracy Howell, Crimebeat co-ordinator, said: "The High Sheriff is keen to develop Crimebeat but agreed we needed to re-image it first. I told...

AIM OF PROJECT

To show young people how to:
Ride safely
Ride legally
Learn consequences of riding illegally
Build and mend bikes
Have awareness of other road users

To purchase equipment to train a group of members from Westbury Youth Development Centre to be able to run archery sessions in the local community during term time.
This equipment is also available for use during school holidays and by, and for, excluded young people from the Young People Support Service.

The moped project again en...

G.A.B.(Greendown Anti-Bullying) formed at the start of 2004 with pupils mainly taken from its current Year 10 who felt the need to form a support network to support those affected, and help stamp out, bullying. Since its formation the pupils involved have undergone training from Judith Moore from Childline in Partnership with Schools (CHIPS). Th...

The aim of the project was to decrease the number of youth offences within Swindon and to provide activities for young people to take part in during the school holidays. The young people would also develop self confidence through the creative sessions and learn how to produce music using state of the art studio recording equipment.
‘Inn...