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What we do Community funding and grants Successful applications for SWAP fundingSuccessful applications for SWAP funding
The Safety, Working together, Action and Prevention Fund
The Cheshire Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) provides funding to support local organisations, charities and community groups across the county. The aim is to help communities come together, to reduce crime, prevent anti-social behaviour and help people feel safer.
This is done through the SWAP (Safety, Working together, Action and Prevention) Fund and the SWAP Summer Support Fund
Map
The map below shows the location of each project, and provides a summary of what the money was used for.
Key
- Green coloured markers – 2025-26 SWAP Fund
- Yellow coloured markers – 2025 SWAP Summer Support Fund
- Blue coloured markers – 2024-25 SWAP Fund
In 2025/26 organisations could apply for up to £5,000.
The SWAP Summer Support Fund enabled community groups, charities, social enterprises and not-for-profit groups to deliver summer holiday specific community-led activities to help families. Organisations could apply for a maximum of £2,000.
Map
The map below shows the location of each project, and provides a summary of what the money was used for.
Key
- Green coloured markers – 2025-26 SWAP Fund
- Yellow coloured markers – 2025 SWAP Summer Support Fund
- Blue coloured markers – 2024-25 SWAP Fund
Projects that cover the whole of Cheshire
Some projects provide support to the whole of the county. These are summarised in the table below:
| Organisation | Project summary | Location |
| Live! Volunteer it Yourself | Live! and Volunteer It Yourself (VIY) will partner to create an accessible, neurodiverse-friendly podcast and digital arts room, alongside repairs to the community garden. Young NEET volunteers will gain trade skills and City & Guilds qualifications while improving facilities that promote neurodiversity, inclusion, and opportunities for disadvantaged communities. | Cheshire wide |
| Citizens’ Advice Halton | We will expand our domestic abuse advice and advocacy service from 14 to 21 hours per week until May 2026. This will enable Citizens Advice Halton to support more victims with urgent debt, housing, welfare, and legal advice, while training new volunteer advisers to increase capacity and sustain long-term community impact. | Halton |
| Choose Your Story | The Begin Again Project will support vulnerable and underrepresented women in Crewe through two modules. The first delivers workshops on wellbeing, trauma recovery, and healthy relationships led by specialist practitioners. The second provides 45 emergency “Begin Again” bags with essential supplies for women fleeing abuse, offering both emotional empowerment and immediate practical support. | Cheshire East |
| Primal Mentality | The Reel Healing Project will provide therapeutic, nature-based fishing sessions for young people aged 12–18 in Halton who are at risk of offending, reoffending, or exploitation. Delivered with Halton Youth Justice Services, the six–eight week programme combines angling tuition, mindfulness, and wellbeing support to build confidence, resilience, and positive life skills through outdoor engagement. | Halton |
| Cheshire West Voluntary Action (CWVA) | Cheshire West Voluntary Action (CWVA) will deliver co-production workshops with adults who have criminal convictions to explore barriers to volunteering and promote inclusion. Insights will inform practical guides for participants and best-practice toolkits for organisations. Follow-up training sessions will help VCFSE groups support volunteers with convictions, challenging stigma and improving employability pathways. | Cheshire West and Chester |
| 2024-25 | ||
| Cheshire Autism Practical Support (ChAPS) | The project will deliver a summer holiday club for autistic children. The club offers inclusive, sensory friendly activities such as arts, sports, cooking, cinema trips and outdoor adventures tailored to individual needs. The club will provide a safe and nurturing environment that support emotional regulation and social development, and empower young people with autism to build confidence, connections and life skills over the summer. | Cheshire wide |
| Mentell | To provide community engagement work where ex-offenders who have used Mentell in Parole services, promote the benefits of the service to those prisoners who are on parole and early release. | Cheshire East Cheshire West and Chester Warrington |
| Embrace: Child Victims of Crime | To provide trauma-informed support for children and their families who have experienced serious crime. | Cheshire wide |
| Neighbourhood Watch | To help enable the Cheshire Neighbourhood Watch community to thrive and work closely with Cheshire Constabulary. | Cheshire wide |
| SSAFA – The Armed Forces Charity | To produce a resource pack for family members of veterans in Cheshire prisons, providing information on help and support to help them to navigate the experience they are going through. | Cheshire East Warrington |
| 2Engage CIC | Delivery of a theatre-based, early intervention programmes that will assist children and their parents in recognising the risks associated with online activity like social media, gaming and the use of smart devices. | Cheshire East Halton Warrington |
| Vesta – Specialist family support CIC | To develop a series of resources aimed at increasing awareness of sexual abuse amongst the Polish community in Cheshire in order to support victims and help them to cope and recover. | Cheshire wide |
| Central Cheshire Buddy Scheme | Active Buddies will support disabled children, involving them in community based activities for 12 weeks. The children will be supported to be more active in the community, be physically active, away from technology and improve socialisation. | Cheshire East Warrington |
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