Constitution

The Charity was created by a Trust Deed dated 25th February 1999
 

Objectives

The main objectives of the Charity are to promote for the public benefit, the prevention of crime and the protection of people and property from criminal acts and the advancement of education for the public benefit in all matters relating to crime prevention, road safety, alcohol, drug, solvent and other substance abuse or any matters affecting crime and safety in the community that improves the quality of life of communities.

These objectives are achieved by operating The Cambridgeshire Bobby Scheme and the Young Peoples Driving Centre.
 

Recruitment and Appointment of Trustees

New Trustees are recruited on the basis that they either, represent the beneficiaries of the work of the Trust; are or have been High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire; or represent the Cambridgeshire Constabulary. The work of the Trust is such that Trustees do not need to receive any specialised awareness training but keep themselves informed by reference to Charity Commission circulars, expert individuals and relevant published reports
 

Operation Review and Future Developments

The Trust continues to operate The Cambridgeshire Bobby Scheme, now in its sixth year, which has helped in excess of 10,000 older people who are either victims of burglary or who are concerned about home and personal security.

The Scheme operates throughout Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, maintaining a 48 hour response to 71% of eligible burglary victims which has significantly reduced the repeat victimisation rate amongst that age group. The Scheme is a crime reduction programme and its work helps overcome the shock of crime and restore self confidence. This enables many older people to live independently for longer than they otherwise might. The Scheme is able to reduce the rate at which elderly victims of crime believe they are unsafe in their own homes and transfer to institutional care. For these reasons, together with the wider crime reduction benefits, the scheme is widely acknowledged to be an effective and beneficial programme.

In order to conserve funds the Trustees decided to raise the age for eligibility to the scheme from 60 to 70 years at the end of 2006. As of January 2008 the age range has been reduced to make anyone of 65 years and older eligible.

As part of the Trust’s commitment to improve public safety, we continue to operate a Young Peoples’ Driving Centre, the major activity of which is a Schools’ Programme. An average of sixty students are engaged in this programme every week of term. The programme is designed to change these young peoples’ attitude to driving behaviour and allow them to develop their driving skills. This should result in them becoming safer drivers, reducing death, injury and misery through inappropriate ‘road behaviour’. The Trust is encouraging more schools to participate in these programmes by subsidising the fee paid by each school.