Offenders help spruce up Newby and Scalby Community Hall |
Offenders in Scarborough have carried out nearly 2,000 hours of Community Payback, helping to spruce up Scarborough’s Newby and Scalby Community Hall.
The Community Hall, situated on Scalby Road, is a valuable and important asset to the local community. Over the past year Scarborough offenders, sentenced to unpaid work - commonly known as Community Payback, have been able to offer a substantial helping hand by undertaking a raft of maintenance jobs that could not normally be completed on such a large scale. This has included digging a 2ft deep drain which completely surrounds the Hall, rebuilding the main entrance pillars with original stone and clearing the back of the stage and attic rooms. In recent months, offenders have painted the lower part of the external walls, painted the outside railings and completed many other maintenance and gardening tasks. So far, over 50 offenders have been involved in this project, wearing orange hi-vis vests so local communities in Scarborough can see justice in action.
Karl Parkin, Community Payback Manager, York and North Yorkshire Probation Trust commented: “Community Payback is one of the ways in which we are opening up the criminal justice system and trying to raise confidence in community sentences, which can be really effective in punishing offenders, paying back to wronged communities and cutting re-offending. Over the last year, offenders have undertaken over £790,000 worth of work if paid at the minimum wage, for the communities of York and North Yorkshire - this project is a real success story.”
Every day teams of offenders, supervised by the York and North Yorkshire Probation Trust, carry out Community Payback to make amends for their crimes and give something back to the communities affected by them. Last year alone, offenders in York and North Yorkshire carried out over 135,000 hours of compulsory Community Payback. |
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