South Lakes Foyer secures funding from Cumbria's Police and Crime Commissioner

South Lakes Foyer has secured funding from the office of Cumbria’s Police and Crime Commissioner.  We applied for funding to develop a Trusted Visitor and Peer Pressure project aimed at empowering young people and their communities to live safely.  The project comprises of three main areas, each supporting young people to enhance their emotional and physical wellbeing creating a unique personal plan for managing Anti-Social Behaviour and peer pressure.

Firstly the project will design, develop and deliver informal learning sessions to our tenants; who will develop tools and strategies to manage visitors, reduce anti-social behaviour and create individual plans to manage peer pressure. Our established media group will create digital resources to educate peers on the impact of Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB).

In the second strand young people will create and implement sessions visitors to increase their knowledge of how anti-social behaviour affects people, our expectation of them as visitors to our schemes and build respect for their peers’ homes/tenancies. Sessions will be co-delivered in local colleges, schools and partner agency forums.

The third element will provide young people with additional support during the first period of their tenancy or unsettled periods where there is an increase in unwanted visitors and ASB; assisting young people to effectively manage visitors and implement their personal plans.

We envisage our project will; support a reduction in ASB for vulnerable young people and the wider community, empower young people to manage peer pressure in relation to drug and alcohol misuse, reduce the opportunity of young people being targeted by known criminals and increase our partnership work with local police officers to bring perpetrators of ASB to justice.