By measuring crime and drug priorities against the available funding, the Funding Project enables partnerships to plan and assess where they can most effectively target taxpayer’s money to tackle the identified strategic crime and drugs priorities faced by their communities. This targeted approach helps partnerships ensure that only projects and initiatives which directly address those priority crime and drug problems win funding approval.
The Funding Project allows partnerships to make this process more open and accountable. Following the accepted SARA (Scan, Analyse, Respond and Assess) problem-solving model used by the police, Partnerships can allow all their partners, sub-group members and even their public to post problems for consideration. Problems are then analysed to identify what, if any, responses need to be put in place. Projects to tackle these problems can be managed online allowing the project deliverers to report on progress and claim funding using the system. Throughout this process full management control is retained by the partnership to ensure that they deliver against their strategic priorities.
The Funding Project was initially established for the 45 crime and drug partnerships and 21 Police Basic Command Units in the region to manage their Home Office funding. It is now being rolled out to allow the new Local Area Agreement (LAA) partnerships to manage their community safety funds and can even be used by partnerships to manage their own funding streams. It can be accessed and used by everyone involved in the crime and drugs reduction arena at any place where there is an internet connection.
The Funding Project Users
All you need to access www.thefundingproject.com is your user name and password, provided by the GOSW Safer & Stronger Communities Directorate or your local Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership.
If you do not have an account but wish to see www.thefundingproject.com in action you can log in with read-only access using the user name 'government' and password 'office'. This will grant you access to a dummy ‘Model Entity’ and all partnerships that have granted open access to their system.
For new users a ‘User Manual for Entities’ and a Powerpoint training guide can be downloaded from ‘Related documents’ below. Additionally, you can download a guide to writing reports on TheFundingProject.
2006/2007
The Funding Project has been revised for this financial year. This change has incorporated several improvements to the system, among these being a facility to search for responses, the ability to cut and paste between entities/financial years and the addition of a new tool allowing users to set and track performance indicators and targets. A revised manual has also been produced which can be downloaded at ‘Related documents’ below.
For all enquiries please use the contact details below.
