Humberside Probation Trust - What we Do -Community Payback

In the Humberside area over 160,000 hours of Community Payback are completed every year by offenders on a community sentence. This equates to approximately £800,000 of free labour provided to local communities as offenders pay back for the crimes they have committed.

Community Payback projects range from litter removal to clearing dense under growth, and environmental projects through repairing and redecorating community centres or removing graffiti. Offenders usually work as part of a team, monitored by a supervisor, and will work all day with short breaks, although there are some opportunities for individual placements.

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 above, please complete and submit the form below online or call the Community Payback team at Humberside Probation Trust on telephone number:

Please complete the form with details of your project
Your Name:
Organisation:
Your Address:
Postcode:
Telephone:
E-Mail:

How did you hear about community payback?

		Check the boxes if the project meets the criteria shown

Yes:		It will benefit the local community
Yes:		It will not take paid work away from others
Yes:		No one will make a profit from the work
Yes:		It will be worthwhile and constructive
Yes:		Offenders will be seen to be positively contributing to the local community

		When would you like the work to start?
		1 - 3 Months
		Don't mind
Name of Project:
Location of Project:
A brief description of the work you want done:

Snow Clearance :

Community Payback Offenders work hard in freezing conditions to clear snow and ice from public footpath

A team of Community Payback Offenders work hard in freezing conditions to clear snow and ice from public footpaths near to a Community Centre in Grimsby.

Leys Farms Junior School :

"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

A community Payback offender edging the paths at Leys Farm School

Community payback offenders have finished the playground markings

Community payback offenders have finished the playground markings and have made a start on the out buildings at Leys Farm School

A Community Payback offender takes pride in his work at Leys Farm School

Market Weighton, East Riding of Yorkshire 2009 :

Community Payback Offenders, level stone after building the steps to a local playing field in Market Weighton, East Riding of Yorkshire.

“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 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

Offenders levelling stone

Pete the Community Payback Supervisor checks on the quality and progress of work on a fencing project in Market Weighton, East Riding of Yorkshire.

offenders erecting a fence

Community Payback Offenders erecting a new fence in Market Weighton,East Riding of Yorkshire. Humberside Probation Trust, Community Payback Unit have devoted over 1,800 hours of free labour for the Market Weighton community so far this year.

Ings Estate, Hull :

Dave, the Community Payback Supervisor, makes his final checks

Dave, the Community Payback Supervisor, makes his final checks after his team of offenders finish cutting back shrubs and removing bags of litter from an underpass on the Ings Estate in Hull

a Community Payback offender paints over unsightly graffiti

Early one Sunday morning, a Community Payback offender paints over unsightly graffiti on the Ings Shopping Centre in Hull

Bob, the Community Payback Supervisor, shows two offenders their next job

Bob, the Community Payback Supervisor, shows two offenders their next job, to paint over graffiti on the Ings Shopping Centre in Hull

We would like to take this opportunity to thank Humberside Probation Trusts’ 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.

Many thanks

Netta Northage
Neighbourhood Manager (East)
Ings Customer Service Centre
Hull

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