Over recent months - Crimebeat has helped bring numerous ideas to reality - helping to cut crime and deliver positive results for communities across the county. The Only limit to what you can do to help make your Crimebeat idea come to life is the extent of your imagination! Here you can see some of the ideas that have transformed Crimebeat cash into community action!!

Cheshire Brownies were the recipients of a £500 Crimebeat grant for an innovative crime reduction idea. The issue of crime has always been a thorny one - but with the clever use of attractive but prickly plants the Brownies showed that protecting your property can look good and offer great security!

 

Making sure crime prevention and crime reduction messages successfully reach their audience is usually half the battle in today's multi-media world. Thanks to a £500 Crimebeat grant Widnes based Lighthouse Theatre went back to basics with a hugely successful puppet show. The show addressed various crime issues in a way that ensured success by careful audience targeting. This was a clever use of how Crimebeat can help put the messages across in a number of exciting ways.

Most people would agree that safer transport is an important aspect of everyday life. Safer routes, safer riding and of course keeping your chosen means of transport safe are all contained in Brookvale Schools Crimebeat project.

 

Any project that links the younger and older generations has the potential for a very positive result and provides examples of how the young can take action to transform the negative opinion of youth held by many older people. Such is the case with Wilmslow Air Cadets who received Crimebeat funding for crime prevention information packs to be handed out to local vulnerable elderly.