Forces Fitness Education
£10,000 towards a 12-month Gwent-wide, role model-led programme aimed at building resilience, developing essential life skills, encouraging positive relationships, and promoting safer streets awareness as well as personal safety. This project is aimed at children and young people between the ages of seven to 18, with role models including former Police and Military Veterans.

Brynmawr Interact Club
£10,000 towards delivery of a youth-focused intergenerational community programme aiming to improve intergenerational understanding, reduce isolation and anti-social behaviour, and raise aspirations for both young people and adults through positive shared activity. The project will provide leadership and personal development opportunities, group discussions, workshops, and offer various activities.

Vitalize Radio
£4,893.75 towards a Gwent-wide community radio station offering the opportunity to acquire/develop new skills as well as fostering a sense of belonging. The project will forge meaningful partnerships with a diverse range of local groups and proactively engage with schools, youth clubs, and local residential homes, particularly working with young people who are part of the looked-after system by working collaboratively with Social Services and the Multi-Agency Integrated Support Team (MIST) to ensure targeted, impactful outreach.

Kid Care 4 U
£42,160 towards the continuation of the Saturday Club for children and young people aged between five to 18 in Newport, totalling approximately 200 attendees, which provides opportunities for participation in various activities, awareness workshops, educational support, as well as volunteering opportunities (for ages 16+).

Senghenydd Youth Drop In Centre
£38,750 towards the Drop-in Centre, where youth and community workers will offer outreach and youth centre-based activities. Youth workers will also work with NEETs (young people not in education, employment, or training) during daytime hours and provide evening sessions to children and young people on subjects such as substance misuse and online safety, as well as raise awareness of issues such as grooming, trafficking, modern slavery, and risk-taking behaviour.

Volunteering Matters
£25,673 towards the Gwent-wide SAFE Project (Sexual Awareness for Everyone), which is aimed at females aged 16 to 35 with learning disabilities, as well as the families of those with learning disabilities, providing workshops on personal safety, healthy relationships, and internet safety.

Duffryn Community Link
£24,358 towards delivery of the Duffryn Futures: Practical Pathways to Positive Lives project – a targeted early intervention and diversionary programme for young people aged 14 to 25 who are vulnerable to involvement in crime, anti-social behaviour (ASB), and exploitation due to disengagement from education, training, or employment. The project will deliver structured, purposeful, and work-focused activity designed to address the underlying causes of crime and ASB. This is not a youth club model; instead, young people will engage in hands-on, practical projects that replicate real workplace environments and expectations, with the project also providing tailored 1:1 support and mentoring.

TOGS Centre
£20,000 towards the Vulnerable Young People’s Project based in Torfaen, which will deliver two x two-hour weekly sessions for a period of over 50 weeks for vulnerable young people to explore themes such as ASB and crime, providing learning opportunities around what behaviour is expected of them in public and offering safety advice. The project will also provide sessions on healthy relationships, online vigilance, substance misuse, etc. via community access sessions and will accept self-referrals. The project is aimed at vulnerable young people who often find it difficult to understand others’ intentions towards them, leading to them being either very vulnerable or open to becoming victims or perpetrators of crime without fully understanding their behaviour.

Newport Central Jame Masjid
£50,000 towards the Next Gen Youth’s Community Wellbeing & Diversion Programme, delivering a preventative initiative aiming to reduce ASB and improve mental health and wellbeing, whilst also strengthening community safety through early intervention and community-led support. The project will deliver weekly youth drop-in sessions, including a girls’ specific session, and provide sport diversionary activities, as well as inclusive workshops for neurodiverse children and young people. The drop-in sessions will include structured activities, mentoring, and facilitated discussions led by trained staff and volunteers during evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Cwmbran Centre for Young People
£49,886.72 towards continuation of the Open Access Drop-in Project. This project will include provision of the existing drop-in facility (five nights a week), but now with an added expansion introducing weekend sessions and additional opening hours during peak periods, e.g. school holidays, when demand for positive, structured activities is highest. Delivery will continue to be provided within a safe environment that offers tailor-made services, activities, and support for young people aged seven to 25, with counsellors and mentors available to those attending.

Hip Hop 12
£9,875 towards a targeted early intervention programme based in Torfaen that uses the creative power of hip hop to steer young people away from crime and ASB. The project will be run during the school summer holidays for children aged six to 13, offering activities such as DJing, breakdancing, and legal street art. The aim will be to boost confidence, self-esteem, and resilience whilst also directly increasing awareness of the consequences of crime and ASB.

Cynefin Pamoja
£20,000 towards the delivery of an Anti-Racism and ASB Prevention Programme in schools, which will be in partnership with Show Racism the Red Card and Gwent Police. The project will deliver a 24-month programme in over 20 schools across Gwent with the aim of reducing racism, discrimination, ASB, and youth vulnerability to harm, including knife crime, by equipping young people with positive role models, critical awareness, and a stronger sense of belonging within their communities.

Cwm Taf People First
£28,246.33 towards delivery of Rights, Voices and Radio: Empowering People with Learning Disabilities (PWLD) in Torfaen. The project will employ a person with a learning disability as a radio show host, delivering monthly radio shows supported by Cwm Taf People First and delivered in partnership with Able Radio. The project will also produce a series of accessible radio programmes focused on key human rights themes relevant to PWLD. Workshops will be held with PWLD prior to each show to gather insight and ensure accessibility. Access routes include self-referral, referrals from Able Radio, and referrals from the Torfaen Council Learning Disability Team.

Community House
£50,000 towards continuation of the Community Youth Project in Newport, which provides youth work sessions to young people aged between six to 25 and increases detached (street-based) youth work. The project includes awareness-raising, educational trips, workshops, and centre-based activities for young people. The project offers support to both young people and their families on a variety of issues, including abusive behaviours and knife crime, whilst also offering positive opportunities such as youth leadership opportunities to empower young people to be role models and improve their aspirations.

Peoples Prosperity Project
£10,000 towards a project based in Newport that works with young people aged seven to 25 from diverse backgrounds. The project will deliver an open access, universal youth provision, providing youth work activities designed to reach all young people within the community, including those who do not traditionally engage with structured services.

Ethnic Minorities & Youth Support Team
£49,982.92 towards continuation of the Newport Urban Safe Project, along with its expansion into Monmouth and Torfaen. The project provides support to ethnic minority young people in these areas aged 11 to 25. The project will provide safe, culturally accessible spaces for them to access, trusted workers to speak to, and positive activities to take part in. The project will offer drop-in youth sessions, increased opportunities for one-to-one mentoring, information workshops, trips, and activities. The project aims to further strengthen partnerships and networking opportunities in order to enhance the services offered.