Community Payback

Community Payback in Action

Each year, over 160,000 hours of Community Payback unpaid work are completed by offenders in the Humberside area. This represents just under £1 million of free labour provided to local communities per year.

Community Payback Annual Report 2011 Community Payback Annual Report 2012

Community Payback Projects

Community Payback projects range from litter removal to clearing dense undergrowth and environmental projects including repairing and redecorating community centres or removing graffiti. A demanding sentence that ensures offenders give something back to society, Community Payback is rigorously enforced – if an offender fails to carry out the work, they are returned to court so their sentence can be reviewed.

Offenders wearing badged, high visibility jackets usually work as part of a team, monitored by a supervisor, and will work all day with short breaks. There are also some opportunities for individual placements.

Submit a Community Payback Project Nomination

To be considered a project must meet the following criteria:

  • It must benefit the local community
  • It must not take paid work away from others
  • No one must make a profit from the work
  • It must be challenging and demanding
  • It must be worthwhile and constructive
  • Offenders must be seen to be putting something back into the community.

The Community Payback team will assess the project for suitability and for health and safety implications. Once the work has been completed a plaque will be displayed with the Community Payback logo, if appropriate. This will indicate where offenders have positively contributed to improving a neighbourhood. Anyone can nominate a project, so, if you are an individual, member of a club, community group, faith group or voluntary organisation and have a project that fits the criteria, leave a message for the Community Payback team on 01482 480068 or complete our online nomination form.

CP Nomination Form

Feedback from Community Payback Projects

Mike Thompson
We would like to take this opportunity to thank Humberside Probation Trust’s Community Payback Unit for the work undertaken on and around the Ings Shopping Centre. The standard of work has been very high. Community Payback has had a dramatic impact on the whole area making it look clean and cared for. We have had many complimentary comments from local residents and Councillors on the difference made by Community Payback. We look forward to a continuous good working relationship with the Community Payback Team in the future
Mike Thompson Ings Estate, Hull
E Gibbs. Headteacher
“I am writing on behalf of our whole school community to thank you for enabling the excellent work which has been done at our school. To say it has made a huge difference is a great understatement: the outside environment of the school has been transformed and the end result far exceeds what we could have hoped for. Our funds are very limited and this project has meant that maintenance and improvement work has been done which we could not have afforded for many years.”
E Gibbs. Headteacher Leys Farms Junior School

Mary McGarry, Town Clerk
The Town Council is very pleased with the achievements of Community Payback offenders in Market Weighton. Residents are particularly impressed with the steps and handrails created in places where slippery muddy slopes made access to footpaths and playing fields hazardous in bad weather. The group has willingly tackled a variety of physically challenging tasks on behalf of the community which would otherwise have been neglected, through lack of funding, by the local authorities. Thank you
Mary McGarry, Town Clerk Market Weighton Town Council