Community Payback

Community Payback

Community Payback is a new scheme offering the people of Cheshire a say as to
how offenders pay back the community by nominating a project for them to complete.  Community Payback is ordered by the court and must be between 40 - 300 hours. 

During 2008/09 in Cheshire, 171,068 hours of compulsory unpaid work were completed by offenders, of which 34,518 hours were directly linked to crime reduction. This work often goes unnoticed, which is why we are asking Cheshire residents to take part in deciding what kind of work is carried out.

Projects undertaken by offenders that have been of benefit to local communities in Cheshire include:

  • graffiti removal
  • litter clearance
  • repairing and redecorating community centres
  • environmental work, such as maintaining churchyards
  • specialist work at local heritage centres
These Community Payback projects combine visible hard work with the prospect of offenders achieving vocational and crucial life skills. This helps to reduce the risk of re-offending and make the local Cheshire communities safer places to live.
 
If you have a scheme or project which you think would be suitable as a Community Payback project, please complete our nomination form.