03 February 2011

The Home Office has announced a range of funding to help tackle knife, gun and gang crime. This includes:

 

•  Communities against Gangs, Guns and Knives fund - £4 million funding for local voluntary organisations to stop young people being involved in knife and gang crime

 

•  £250,000 funding for the Ben Kinsella fund, to enable young people to apply for grants to run anti-knife crime projects in their local area, for a further year.

The funding will run from April 2011 until March 2013.

See the full Home Office announcement here.