Apply for the Community Fund

John Beckford, co-designer of the Pathfinder Initiative, supported by the York and North Yorkshire Community Fund 

The Community Fund supports local groups, organisations and individuals who want to deliver new projects that help people across North Yorkshire and the City of York be safe and feel safe. Established in 2013, the fund now brings together three funding streams: 

• The Community Fund 

• The Police Property Fund 

• The Mayor’s Movement, Activity and Sport Fund 

Grants from £500 to £30,000 are available for projects that strengthen community safety, support vulnerable people, and reduce crime or anti-social behaviour. 

Who Can Apply? 

You can apply if you are based in, or mainly operating within, North Yorkshire or the City of York and want to deliver a new community safety project or expand an existing one. Funding is available for initiatives such as: 

• Activities for children and young people 

• Projects that reduce the fear of crime or anti-social behaviour 

• Support services for victims 

• Work that strengthens community cohesion 

• Crime and anti-social behaviour prevention initiatives 

• Safety equipment for key community locations 

Apply Now

Application Form:
Community Fund (including Police Property and Movement, Activity and Sport funding) – November 2025 

Guidance Notes:
Community Fund (including Police Property and Movement, Activity and Sport funding) – November 2025 

If you’d like to speak to someone before applying, you can call 01423 569 562. 

Submission Deadlines for 2026/27 

About the Fund and Its Priorities 

The Community Fund focuses on three key areas: 

• Communities & Places: Making priority locations safer 

• Victims: Preventing harm and reducing repeat victimisation 

• Offenders: Preventing offending and reducing reoffending 

Projects should also align with priorities in the North Yorkshire Police and Crime Plan, which includes public safety, tackling serious and organised crime, improving visibility of local policing, and supporting the safety of women and girls. 

Recent Investment 

Police property fund 

Each year, North Yorkshire Police seizes property as part of criminal investigations, or confiscates property by order of court.  Although we make every possible attempt to return items to their rightful owners, this isn’t always possible. 

Thanks to the Police (Disposal of Property) Regulations 1975, if no one has claimed ownership of the property we have seized, we can auction it, and use the money to give funding to community and voluntary initiatives in North Yorkshire – particularly projects which could have a positive impact on reducing crime and disorder at a local level. 

The Chief Constable of North Yorkshire Police and the Mayor have identified an additional £25,000 for the Community Fund annual budget to support smaller, community-based projects using the proceeds from this funding. 

Movement, Activity and Sport Fund 

The Mayor’s £2.75m Movement Activity and Sport Fund supports projects across York and North Yorkshire, designed to reduce inequalities and improve wellbeing through increased participation in movement, activity and sport at all stages of life.    

This fund includes a £400,000 uplift for the Community Fund, aimed at supporting projects reducing anti-social behaviour via early intervention. 

This additional funding has so far provided £177,000 to 8 projects across York and North Yorkshire.