Dear Graham

I am writing regarding your request for information, which the Mayor’s Office for Policing And Crime (MOPAC) received on June 6. In that request, you asked us for details of the funding made available (before and after the admin deduction) to Croydon SNB in the years 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20. 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24.

I can confirm that your request is being handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and that MOPAC does hold some information relating to your request.

Unfortunately, this information is currently still being collated and it is unlikely that we will be able to provide a full response within the original 20 working day deadline.

Please accept my apologies for this delay and be assured that we are doing all we can to get a response to you as soon as possible.

Yours sincerely,

Matt

Matthew Foley | Correspondence, Enquiries and FOI Officer | Mayor’s Office for Policing And Crime | Website www.london.gov.uk/mopac |Address MOPAC, Ground Floor, 169 Union Street, London, SE1 0LL

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Dear Graham,

Thank you for your email of July 29.

I apologise sincerely for the delay in our response. We are working hard to get this response to you as soon as possible.

In processing your request, we have to engage with all relevant stakeholders to assess any information's suitability for release against Freedom of Information guidelines and also ensure any information we are providing is accurate and complete. In this instance, this has led to a delay in us providing our response.

I can confirm receipt of your request for an internal review and that this will be passed on to the relevant team upon the conclusion of the FOI request.

I apologise again for the delay in providing our response.

Yours sincerely,

Matt

Matthew Foley | Correspondence, Enquiries and FOI Officer | Mayor’s Office for Policing And Crime | Website www.london.gov.uk/mopac |Address MOPAC, Ground Floor, 169 Union Street, London, SE1 0LL

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Dear Graham

Thank you for your request for information which the Mayor’s Office for
Policing And Crime (MOPAC) received on June 10. I apologise sincerely for
the extended delay in providing our response and thank you for your
patience.

I can confirm that your request has been being handled under the Freedom
of Information Act 2000 and that MOPAC does hold some information relating
to your request.

You requested:

Please let me have details of the funding made available (before and after
the admin deduction) to Croydon SNB in the years 2017/18, 2018/19,
2019/20. 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24. Please also let me have
details of the name of the recipient organisations who applied for funding
and the amounts bestowed to each successful applicant in each of the years
above. Please let me have details of any funding which was unspent in any
of the years above. 

Our response:

Please note that this information requested goes back over a number of
years, and due to staff turnover at both, MOPAC and the London Borough of
Croydon, there are a number of gaps in the records we hold and in
the retention of knowledge from this time period. There have been
significant improvements to our processes around record keeping and
finance systems in recent years. Croydon Council is continuing to
investigate its own records to ensure all payments for SNB projects have
been claimed from MOPAC and paid to projects.You may wish to make a
request to Croydon Council for any further information, and for any
information MOPAC does not hold.

You can make request via their website at [1]Make an information request |
Croydon Council.

Each year Safer Neighborhood Boards (SNBs) in each borough of London are
allocated a funding allowance, which includes money for projects and a
ringfenced amount for administration. SNBs will not always claim the full
amount of funding that is available to them.  

·        In years 17/18, 18/19, 19/20 and 20/21 £33,073 was available for
Croydon SNB. 

·        In years 21/22, 22/23 and 23/24 £23,151 was available for Croydon
SNB. 

2017/18 

┌────────────────┬─────────────┬────────┐
│Project  │Run by  │Amount  │
├────────────────┼─────────────┼────────┤
│Impact Factor │GENERATION F │£7,700  │
│and Junior │CIC  │ │
│Impact Factor   │ │ │
├────────────────┼─────────────┼────────┤
│Freedom │Freedom │£7,000  │
│Programme   │Together CIC │ │
├────────────────┼─────────────┼────────┤
│Substance Misuse│Daniel │£6,758  │
│Awareness 1  │Spargoo-Mabbs│ │
│ │Foundation   │ │
├────────────────┼─────────────┼────────┤
│Substance Misuse│Daniel │£0.955  │
│Awareness 2  │Spargoo-Mabbs│ │
│ │Foundation  │ │
├────────────────┼─────────────┼────────┤
│Growing Against │Growing │£3,960  │
│Violence  │Against │ │
│ │Violence   │ │
├────────────────┼─────────────┼────────┤
│Neighbourhood │Neighborhood │£1,500  │
│Watch   │Watch   │ │
├────────────────┼─────────────┼────────┤
│Total before │  │£27,873 │
│administration  │ │ │
├────────────────┼─────────────┼────────┤
│Total with │  │£33,073 │
│administration  │ │ │
└────────────────┴─────────────┴────────┘

2018/19  

Our finance records show that the sum of £20,723.00 was paid to the London
Borough of Croydon in this year in relation to the SNB. However, a signed
grant agreement for the time period cannot be located, so we cannot
confirm which projects and organisations were funded by the SNB.  

2019/20  

┌────────────────┬────────────┬─────────────┐
│Project  │Run by  │Amount   │
├────────────────┼────────────┼─────────────┤
│Freedom │Freedom │£4,960  │
│Together  │Together │ │
│ │CIC  │ │
├────────────────┼────────────┼─────────────┤
│Generation F  │GENERATION F│£5,000  │
│ │CIC  │ │
├────────────────┼────────────┼─────────────┤
│The Lioness │The Lioness │£5,000  │
│Circle  │Circle  │ │
├────────────────┼────────────┼─────────────┤
│SNB community │SNB/Croydon │£3,500*  │
│engagement │Council  │ │
│workshops  │ │ │
├────────────────┼────────────┼─────────────┤
│Legacy Parenting│Legacy │£4,413*  │
│Project  │Parenting │ │
│ │Group  │ │
├────────────────┼────────────┼─────────────┤
│QK Consultancy  │QK │£5,000  │
│ │Consultancy │ │
├────────────────┼────────────┼─────────────┤
│Total before │  │£27,873  │
│administration  │ │ │
├────────────────┼────────────┼─────────────┤
│Total with │  │£33,073.00   │
│administration  │ │ │
└────────────────┴────────────┴─────────────┘

Our finance records show that only £12,350 was paid to the London Borough
of Croydon in relation to the SNB this year based on the invoices
received.  In addition, the funding for two of these projects (as
identified by *) was claimed in 22/23.  We are working with Croydon
Council to establish if there are any other projects that went ahead that
are still owed funding. 

2020/21  

Our finance records show that the sum of £30,073.00 was paid to the London
Borough of Croydon in this year in relation to the SNB.  However, a signed
grant agreement for the time period cannot be located, so we cannot
confirm which projects and organisations were funded by the SNB. 

2021/22 

The board was not functional and only claimed admin funding that was
outstanding from 19/20 when the Board was functional. 

┌────────────────┬────┬────────┐
│Project  │Run │Amount  │
│ │by  │ │
├────────────────┼────┼────────┤
│No projects were│n/a │n/a  │
│run this year  │ │ │
├────────────────┼────┼────────┤
│Total before │  │£0.00  │
│administration  │ │ │
├────────────────┼────┼────────┤
│Total with │  │£0.00  │
│administration  │ │ │
└────────────────┴────┴────────┘

2022/23 

Croydon Safer Neighbourhood Board was not functional and did not claim
funding. The two projects claimed for were overdue payments from 19/20. 

┌────────────────┬───────────┬──────────┐
│Project  │Run by  │Amount   │
├────────────────┼───────────┼──────────┤
│SNB community │SNB/Croydon│£3,500*  │
│engagement │Council  │ │
│workshops  │ │ │
│ │  │ │
├────────────────┼───────────┼──────────┤
│Legacy Parenting│Legacy │£4,413*  │
│Project  │Parenting │ │
│ │Group  │ │
├────────────────┼───────────┼──────────┤
│Total before │  │£7,913    │
│administration  │ │ │
├────────────────┼───────────┼──────────┤
│Total with │  │£7,913    │
│administration  │ │ │
└────────────────┴───────────┴──────────┘

2023/24  

Croydon Safer Neighbourhood Board was not functional for most of this year
and did not claim administration funding, please note this project funding
is yet to be paid as MOPAC are awaiting an invoice to process payment. 

┌────────────────┬─────────────┬────────┐
│Project  │Run by  │Amount  │
├────────────────┼─────────────┼────────┤
│Neighbourhood │Neighbourhood│£3,000  │
│Watch  │Watch  │ │
├────────────────┼─────────────┼────────┤
│Total before │  │£0.00  │
│administration  │ │ │
├────────────────┼─────────────┼────────┤
│Total with │  │£3,000  │
│administration  │ │ │
└────────────────┴─────────────┴────────┘

If you are unhappy with the response to your Freedom of Information
request, please see the MOPAC website on what the next steps are at:
[2]https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/may....

I note your previous request for a Internal Review into the handling of
your FOI. If you are unhappy with our response, please may you confirm if
you would like to proceed with a request for this review.

Thank you again for your patience on this matter and we apologise for the
delay in our response.

Yours sincerely,

Matt

Matthew Foley | Correspondence, Enquiries and FOI Officer | Mayor’s Office
for Policing And Crime | Website [3]www.london.gov.uk/mopac |Address
MOPAC, Ground Floor, 169 Union Street, London, SE1 0LL

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