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East Riding Community Safety Partnership

We work in partnership to help people in the East Riding of Yorkshire feel safe in their homes, in the streets and the places they go.

We do this by working together to:

  • keep people safe from harm
  • prevent and reduce offending
  • create safer, stronger communities.

Our shared strategic priorities are to:

  • support victims and protect vulnerable people from harm
  • reduce reoffending
  • tackle and prevent cyber-crime, fraud, and scamming
  • promote being safe and feeling safe in your community
  • counter terrorism and radicalisation
  • reduce alcohol and substance use.

The East Riding Community Safety Partnership is made up of:

  • Humberside Police
  • East Riding of Yorkshire Council
  • Humberside Fire and Rescue Service
  • The Probation Service (Hull and East Riding)
  • NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB)

In addition to these bodies the following groups and organisations are members of the East Riding Community Safety Partnership:

  • East Riding of Yorkshire Public Health
  • East Riding Safeguarding Adults Board
  • East Riding Children’s Services
  • Community Vision
  • HMP Humber
  • Office of the Police Crime Commissioner (Humberside)
  • HEY SMILE Foundation
  • Portfolio Holder for Police and Safe Communities, Councillor Lyn Healing.

Community Safety Partnership Strategy

The East Riding Community Safety Partnership Strategy sets out the vision for the Community Safety Partnership (CSP) to tackle crime and antisocial behaviour across the East Riding by reducing violence and exploitation, supporting victims and vulnerable people, building strong and resilient communities, and improving the safety of public spaces.

The current strategy covers the period from 2025 to 2029 and outlines how the CSP will work with partners and residents to deliver these priorities, and how they will measure their progress and impact.

East Riding Community Safety Partnership Strategy 2025-2029 (pdf 3.3mb)

Community Safety Grant Fund 2026/27

The Community Safety Grant Fund 2026/27 offers grants between £5,000 and £30,000 (out of an available £90,000) to help deliver projects across the East Riding that make a lasting difference in local communities.

The grant fund aims to support projects and initiatives that work towards delivering the priorities of the East Riding Community Safety Partnership and Humberside Police Crime Commissioner (PCC).

Projects must demonstrate how they will help deliver at least one of the following priorities:

  • Make communities safer
  • Build stronger, more resilient neighbourhoods
  • Reduce crime, anti-social behaviour, or harm

Details of the Community Safety Partnership’s priorities and the Police and Crime Commissioner’s objectives can be found below:

How to apply

Applications are open to local community groups, voluntary organisations, third sector organisations and statutory bodies delivering services in the East Riding.

To apply, applications must be submitted online via the council’s Flexi Grant system:

Portal homepage - East Riding of Yorkshire Council

The application window opens Monday, 18 May 2026 and closes on Friday, 14 August at 12 noon.

Organisations are encouraged to apply as soon as possible, as funding is limited and applications will be assessed and scored through a grant panel. These panels are scheduled to take place on 9 July 2026 and 3 September 2026.

Further information

For full details please see Community Safety Grant Fund specification below:

If you have any questions regarding the Fund or require any support with your application, please contact the Community Safety Partnership Project Officer at:

Email: carla.whitehead@eastriding.gov.uk

Clear Hold Build Bridlington

A multi-agency partnership, with community involvement, is underway to reduce crime and antisocial behaviour in Bridlington south area.

The ‘Clear Hold Build’ initiative has been supported by the Police and Crime Commissioner, with funding from the UK government via the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. It aims to tackle organised crime and problems which cause nuisance to the public.

This includes tackling organised crime, nuisance motorcycle use, investing in sports facilities and fencing, after school clubs, public engagement with residents, and other initiatives. It also includes regeneration and community engagement.

The project phases consist of:

Clear – removing organised crime groups operating in the Bridlington area. This includes disrupting organised crime groups, their networks and their criminal activities, to creates safer spaces and community confidence. This has led to a total of 99 years and 5 months in sentencing for offenders, in 2024-25.

Hold – helping residents, partners and services to protect the community and keep it safe, through community engagement and continuing police and partner action.

Build – investing in local services and infrastructure, encouraging neighbourhood initiatives, and building a resilient community spirit.

The Clear Hold Build initiative members include:

  • East Riding of Yorkshire Council
  • Humberside Police
  • The Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector.

For more information and to report anti-social behaviour, visit the antisocial behaviour of the council’s website.

More information about Humberside Police’s work on Clear Hold Build

Violence Against Women and Girls

Communities in Motion: Active Bystander Training

Would you like to learn how you can contribute to making your communities safer?

With Community in Motion training, you can learn how to become active bystanders in your community so you can help to play an active role in preventing violence against women and girls.

The aim of this training is to raise awareness of gender-based violence in England and Wales and to equip you with tools and strategies to safely support/challenge others if you witness something that isn’t right in your community.

This approach for violence prevention focuses on boys and men not as perpetrators or potential perpetrators, but as empowered bystanders who can confront abusive peers and support abused ones. Likewise, the model focuses on girls and women not as victims or potential targets of harassment and abuse, but as empowered bystanders who can support abused peers and confront abusive ones.

For more information on how you, or your group, could access this 2-hour session contact: safe.communities@eastriding.gov.uk.

Domestic abuse-related death reviews

Domestic abuse-related death reviews (DARDRs) were established on a statutory basis under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 and came into force on 13 April 2011.

Community Safety Partnerships (CSPs) are responsible for undertaking DARDRs where the death of a person aged 16 or over has, or appears to have, resulted from violence, abuse, or neglect by:

  • a relative
  • a household member
  • someone he or she has been in an intimate relationship with.

A review panel, led by an independent chair and consisting of representatives from statutory and voluntary agencies is commissioned to undertake the DARDR. The panel reviews each agency's involvement in the case and makes recommendations to improve responses in the future. The panel also consider information from the victim's:

  • family
  • friends
  • work colleagues.

DARDRs are not enquiries into how someone died or who is to blame or whether they form part of a disciplinary process. They do not replace, but are in addition to, an inquest and any other form of enquiry into a homicide.

The purpose of a DARDR is to consider the circumstances that led to the death and to identify where responses to the situation could be improved in the future. Lessons learned from the reviews help agencies to improve their response to domestic abuse and to work better together to prevent such tragedies from occurring again.

The Home Office has published statutory guidance on how to complete DARDRs - GOV.UK - Domestic homicide reviews: statutory guidance (external website)

The Home Office has also published a report on common themes identified as lessons to be learned from DARDRs - GOV.UK - Domestic homicide reviews: key findings from research (external website)

East Riding Community Safety Partnership published reviews can be accessed below when available.

East Riding's Serious Violence Duty Response Strategy

The Serious Violence Duty (SVD) commenced on 31 January 2023. The Duty requires specified authorities to "work together to share information, collaborate", "and plan to prevent and reduce serious violence within their local communities" (Home Office, 2022_a, p. 7).

In the East Riding of Yorkshire, the East Riding CSP undertakes the governance and accountability for serious violence. Our strategic plan links to the strategic priorities of the CSP locally.

It also considers other local strategies that exist in communities and already work towards the reduction of serious violence. Hence, our approach will marry up new and existing violence prevention work to create a robust, collaborative response to the Serious Violence Duty.

East Riding of Yorkshire Serious Violence Duty Response Strategy 2025-2026 (pdf 730kb)

Contact us

East Riding Community Safety Partnership is based at:

County Hall
Cross Street
Beverley
HU17 9BA.

Email us at safe.communities@eastriding.gov.uk.

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