Community Grant Round - Specialist Domestic Abuse Group Work

CONTRACTING AUTHORITY: The Police and Crime Commissioner for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

CONTACT EMAIL: [email protected]

BID TITLE: Specialist Domestic Abuse Group Work – Community Grant Round

BID REFERENCE: OPCC/SDAGWORK/CGR26-28 (unless instructed otherwise)

ESTIMATED TCV: £300K over two years

TERM: Effective from 01/04/2026 until 31/03/2028

• Please be aware that the total contract value and the term of funding are estimated at the time of issue and remain subject to confirmation.

Funding from the OPCC is confirmed for two years, while other delivery partners have currently approved one year with an intention to commit for two.

BID DESCRIPTION:

The Police and Crime Commissioner for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough is planning to run a Community Grant Round to allocate two years’ funding to local community-based providers to extend the offers of group work to domestic abuse survivors to each of the six county districts.

This includes:

• Peterborough
• Cambridge City
• East Cambridgeshire
• South Cambridgeshire
• Huntingdonshire
• Fenland

Supporting Victims and Witnesses by providing them with access to support services that are responsive to their individual needs is a key pillar within the Commissioner’s Police and Crime Plan.

The intention of the Community Grant round is to:

• extend the offer and availability of place-based group support to survivors of domestic abuse across the county
• enable providers to develop and deliver group work offers which are bespoke to the needs of local victims
• address the current inequitable provision of place-based group work
• build community resilience and encourage volunteering
• reduce feelings of isolation / barriers faced by those victims in need of contact
• support victims of domestic abuse to have coped and built the resilience to move forward with daily life

This Community Grant Round will be open to charitable and community organisations based within the county boundaries of Cambridgeshire.

Details of how to bid into the fund will be published w/c 05/01/2026 on the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Police and Crime Commissioner website:

Commissioning and grants

www.cambridgeshire-pcc.gov.uk/commissioning-and-grants/

The deadline for bids to be submitted is 26/01/2026

Successful bidders will be awarded estimated w/c 09/02/2026