VRU borough support

Total Investment 2023 - 2025: £9,030,000

The London Crime Prevention Fund (LCPF) is direct grant funding for each London borough partnership to support local initiatives to reduce violence through prevention. 

Each London borough decides how best to use the funding, how it will deliver prevention and early intervention work and if this is going to be across the whole borough or a specific area. 

LCPF funding has been allocated since 2019 and some examples of how boroughs have used it include tailored support for young people affected by violence, as well as parents and carers, reducing school exclusions, and detached outreach services.

It's also used to deliver programmes during school holidays, including the summer.

Total investment 2023 - 2024: £2,049,811

In some parts of London, we know that violence is localised and is often concentrated in areas as small as an estate or a cluster of streets. There needs to be strong, local, collaborative work for effective, long-term impact to tackle violence.

Since 2021, the VRU has allocated funding to 24 local authorities for interventions in neighbourhoods affected by high and sustained levels of violence.

This includes providing additional capacity building to support incident response in the community. This is delivered through a partnership approach between local communities, stakeholders, key local institutions, and statutory partners.

In January 2023, the Serious Violence Duty came into effect across England and Wales. This was accompanied by funding from the Home Office, which was allocated across England and Wales to make sure that specified authorities were working together to tackle violence, and intervention work was being carried out.

London’s Violence Reduction Unit equally distributed funding across London's 32 boroughs. This enabled every borough to uplift their violence reduction activity by £79,645 between January 2023 and March 2025.