MOPAC funding:
MOPAC (the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime) has made funds available for Safer Neighbourhood Boards to bid for to fund projects that will help cut neighbourhood crimes and boost public confidence.
Safer Neighbourhood Boards have driven forward 200 crime reduction projects across the city using this funding.
How can you apply for MOPAC funding?
The SNB take applications for grants annually for projects that reflect their priorities.
Please email: lewishamsnboard@gmail.com for more information.
The London Borough of Lewisham Safer Neighbourhood Board (SNB) are pleased to confirm that we are now taking applications for the SNB Grant. You are therefore invited to submit a funding application ideally up to the amount maximum of £3000. Please ensure your project reflects the SNB Priorities and Core Functions as detailed below.
SNBs have an important role to play in supporting engagement at a local level, promoting trust and confidence in the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and helping to ensure transparency and accountability of MPS delivery. Looking ahead, the 2026/27 Community Engagement Programme will continue to support existing mechanisms while we transition to a new framework in line with the Mayor’s commitment to strengthen police scrutiny.
The Mayors Police and Crime Plan 2025-2029 has been published and we encourage you to submit projects that support the four main themes within the plan.
The plan can be accessed here:
The Mayor’s Police and Crime Plan 2025-2029 | London City Hall
The key themes of the Plan are:
- Reducing violence and criminal exploitation – preventing and reducing violence affecting young people; making London a city in which women and girls are safer and feel safer; tackling the harm caused by drugs; reducing reoffending by the most violent and high-risk groups; preventing hate crime; and working together to prevent terrorism, violent extremism and strengthening agencies’ ability to identify and respond effectively with children and adults being – or at risk of being – criminally exploited.
- Building safer, more confident communities – reducing violent crime and the serious harm it causes to Londoners, ensuring Londoners are safer from all crimes, increase their confidence that the MPS are doing a good job in their local area and reduce their fear of crime and ASB.
- Supporting and overseeing reform of the MPS – ensuring the MPS maintains high standards, responds to feedback, is held accountable and represents the communities it serves and builds trust.
- Improving the criminal justice system and supporting victims – improving the service and support that victims receive from the MPS and the criminal justice service; working to ensure victims receive a better criminal justice response and outcome; and reducing the number of repeat victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence.
The SNB priorities and core functions are to:
- enable local engagement with the police;
- enable local scrutiny and accountability of the police;
- focus on the Police and Crime Plan key principles and priorities;
- monitor crime performance and public perceptions (community confidence);
- inform the development of policing priorities in the borough;
- monitor MPS support for the delivery of ward panels; and
- engage with Borough Independent Advisory Groups and other local mechanisms (e.g. neighbourhood watch and stop and search community monitoring groups) to support and inform their work across the borough.
Click link for downloading application form:SNB-COMMUNITY-ORGs-MPOAC FUNDING-APPLICATION-FORM-26-to-27
The closing date for all applications is 8 April 2026. After this date no further applications will be accepted.
An application form is attached to this document. Please do not submit/return your application in a PDF format as this will delay the application process.
We look forward to receiving your applications.
Yours truly,
Lewisham Safer Neighbourhood Board