HMPPS Small Grants Scheme
HMPPS are piloting a Small Grants Scheme for awarding individual grants (under £10k) to Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) organisations operating and registered in the UK.
The scheme has three key aims which contribute to HMPPS aims of protecting the public and reducing reoffending:
- Improving people’s experience of prison and probation and other rehabilitation activities.
- Supporting an individual’s rehabilitation and desistance journey; and
- Improving our knowledge about what activities work to support people and to encourage rehabilitation and desistance.
Each individual grant will be competed over two weeks. The variety of grants have been available within selected prisons in the north and northeast, northwest, south central and Wales with a few grants now being advertised (the final grant will be advertised no later than 20th February 2025).
Currently HMPPS has opportunities for a voluntary organisation to deliver sports activities at HMP Berwyn and HMP Bullingdon.
HMP Berwyn (Sports activities) – seeking to fund is any form of physical sporting activity that will take place on a full-time basis for one week in the months of the summer 2025 (The application process is open from 10 February to 23 February 2025)
HMP Bullingdon (Football Workshop) – looking for the VCSE organisation that can provide the coaching, structure, partial equipment, and that can connect men with sports and football groups in the Thames Valley community when they are released. (The application process will be open from 17 February to 2 March 2025).
HMP Bullingdon (Rowing activities): aim to increased confidence, promote physical fitness, increased wellbeing, promote relationships and teamwork (The application process will be open from 17 February to 2 March 2025).
Find more and apply here: Home – Find a grant under “HMPPS Small Grants Scheme”.