Community Alcohol Partnerships (CAP) is pleased to announce that 19 CAPs across England, Scotland, and Wales have been awarded grants from our 2025 Innovation Fund. The fund aims to support creative, community-led initiatives designed to reduce underage drinking and associated anti-social behaviour, directly supporting CAP's mission for an alcohol-free childhood.

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The fund, generously supported by Asda and first launched in 2024, encourages CAPs to pioneer innovative positive activities for children and young people in communities across England, Scotland and Wales.

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CAP Director, Kate Winstanley, said: "We are incredibly proud to support these 19 CAPs with booster funding from our Innovation Fund, made possible through our partnership with Asda. The enthusiasm and creativity demonstrated by our partnerships in their proposals is truly inspiring. Our funding will enable these communities to pioneer new ideas that support an alcohol-free childhood, with the significant benefits that it brings to individuals and communities. We are excited to see the positive impact these projects will have and look forward to sharing their successes."

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The awarded projects encompass a diverse range of initiatives, all tailored to specific local needs. These include impactful educational programmes in schools, community engagement activities, and strong collaborations between partners such as local Police forces, youth organisations, and local authorities.

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Highlights of Awarded Projects:

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• Sports-based learning: A youth-led project integrating health messaging with lived experience and sport-based learning. Young people aged 13–16 from underserved communities will co-design and complete sport-based alcohol education workshops covering addiction, peer pressure, and healthy lifestyles.

• University and Nightlife Safety: Projects providing alcohol intervention training for university society and sports committees, expanding Street Marshal presence at taxi ranks, offering anti-spiking and harm minimisation resources, and delivering training for nightlife venue staff.

• Immersive Workshops: Initiatives offering non-contact boxing with psychologically informed well-being, interactive theatre exploring peer influence, expressive visual arts, digital storytelling through photography and film, nature-based reflection, and introductions to local sports and active well-being organisations.

• No Regrets Festival: A festival focusing on risk-taking behaviour such as alcohol and drug use, water activities, and exploring abandoned city buildings.

• Youth-Led Community Reporter Project: Empowering local young people to investigate, document, and raise awareness of alcohol-related behaviors and associated risks within their communities.

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This funding is a significant step in CAP's mission to reduce alcohol harm among young people through community-based solutions.

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For more information about the Innovation Fund, please visit our website at www.communityalcoholpartnerships.co.uk.  

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Notes to editors:

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The CAPs are:  

• Cardiff

• Cumberland

• North East Edinburgh

• North West Edinburgh

• South West Edinburgh

• Exeter

• Ivybridge

• Lancaster

• Lewisham

• Liscard

• Orkney Islands

• Portsea

• Ripon

• Rochdale

• South Ribble

• Spalding

• Staveley

• Torbay

• Wyre

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