Community Payback

Community Payback is also known as unpaid work.  Offenders do this work all year round and in all weathers, as long as it is safe to do so.  In Derbyshire, we organised almost 163,000 hours of unpaid work in 2011.  We worked on 347 projects around the county and in Derby for over 200 groups, organisations or individuals.  The work was worth almost £991,000 to those projects. 

We finish many jobs quickly, but we have about 100 jobs we are always working on.  We have been involved with some of these jobs for a few years.

The work the offenders do includes clearing church yards and other community areas, jobs for schools and clearing up litter and fly tipping.  We also do community safety work such as clearing pathways and alleys of overgrown bushes and removing graffiti.  We have also renovated allotments and looked after plots.  Indoors, we can redecorate community centres, schools or village halls.  We make sure that offenders work to make your community a better place to live in.

If you would like to suggest a piece of work, please read the rules about what kind of work we are allowed to do before you fill in the nomination form. The Project Information page has a list of these rules.

Justice Seen, Justice Done is a campaign by government to raise awareness of the vast amount of work undertaken across England and Wales by offenders given an Unpaid Work requirement by the courts.

Since December 2008, offenders have been required to wear orange high visibility vests whilst doing unpaid work - subject to agreement by the project recipients.  This is not a part of the punishment, but is a way of showing you, the public, that reparation to local communities is an important part of community sentencing.

Click [here] for our 2011 Community Payback Annual Report.  Our 2010 Report can be viewed [here]. 

For further information, please download the CP information leaflet or contact us using the nomination form.