Community Action Fund: Rural Crime

Organisation

Project

Project Brief

Priority Area

Sum Requested

NFU Melton Mowbray Branch

Operation Trailer Trace

The primary objective of Operation Trailer Trace is to tag, track and trace livestock trailers (and other agricultural trailers with a high theft risk). 

Rural Crime

Melton Mowbray

£10,000

NFU South West Leicester Branch

Accelerate awareness and prevention opportunities  

Provide workshops and equipment by working with the rural crime team. Build a 'bank' of equipment that can be shared around the farming community which can be loaned / used when needed temporarily

Rural Crime

Market Bosworth

£10,000

National Gamekeepers’ Organisation 

NGO Rural Crime Action 

The NGO will deliver two free-to-attend roadshows on rural crime before 1 August 2026. Focusing on the prevention of crime.  

Rural Crime

Loddington and Thurlaston

 £9,873.89 

NFU Market Harborough  

Operation – Stop the Fly Grazers 

To purchase 300 signs for placement on private land and known fly-grazing hotspots, serving as a deterrent to fly grazers.

Rural Crime

Market Harborough

£7,200 

Sproxton Parish Council 

Purchasing rural crime prevention tools  

To purchase and distribute Data tags to residents within the village who may be vulnerable to Rural Crime 

Rural Crime

Sproxton

£4,199.40

NFU Rutland and Stamford / CSP  

Let’s Catch Them 

This project will deploy Tick Trackers to owners of pickups, tractors, trailers, and small plant, frequent targets of theft.

Rural Crime

Rutland

£9,900

NFU Lutterworth  

Farm Surveillance Project

Purchase of 30 Farm Stream 360 64GB SD card cameras with the aim of these being distributed to local farmers and rural businesses within the rural community.

Rural Crime

Lutterworth

£9,423

Communic8 

Educational Workshops  

Awareness raising, Education and understanding and improved community safety of children regarding Rural crime in Leicestershire 

Rural Crime

Across Rural areas of Leicestershire and Rutland

£7,787.48