Gloucestershire Constabulary
Yesterday sculptor Alfie Bradley went to collect surrendered weapons from Gloucestershire Constabulary. The force have had knife surrender bins across the county at selected police stations and yesterday Paul Kelly handed over the weapons to Alfie who brought them back to us here in Shropshire. With more collections due in the up and coming weeks we […]
Thames Valley Police
UPDATE! We have been informed that 21 bins from Thames valley Police will be ready for collection in the next couple of weeks. This is fantastic news for the campaign, it will take us closer to our target of removing 100,000 knives off the streets of the UK.
Knife banks make there way to London Met Police
10 steel banks make their way to London Met headquarters. Each one is to be placed in 1 of he 32 London Boroughs to encourage members of the public to dispose of any weapons they have in a bid to remove them off the streets.
Staffordshire Police join campaign
Staffordshire Police have today joined the national campaign to remove 100,000 blades off the streets of the UK. A programme of installing amnesty or surrender banks, will be discussed and hopefully actioned within the near future. Its another force joining the effort to reduce knife crime, all 43 UK constabularies are being encouraged to […]
BBC News Report: “Mother backs knife crime memorial”
Find out more on the BBC website here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-35209207.
Shropshire Company Provides Knife Banks For Manchester Police Forces
This week The British ironwork Centre successfully supplied Greater Manchester Police with 11 high-security knife banks. The Centre’s campaign “Save a Life, Surrender Your Knife” has worked alongside Manchester police forces to install the banks in Longsight, Oldham, Ashton under Lyne, Rochdale, Swinton, Bury, Stockport, Stretford, Bolton, Wigan & Manchester Central HQ. […]
Plans for New Amnesty Bin in Birmingham
Visited Birmingham City Council yesterday, excellent meeting with Councillor Khan discussing Knife Banks and supplying the City. All knife Banks supplied carry no cost for the City Council or the West Midlands Police. It’s the intention to hopefully partner Birmingham in all anti aggression and anti-Violence projects. We were very impressed with the Councils enthusiasm […]
Alfie collects blades from the north
West Yorkshire Police join the drive to remove knives and guns from the streets of the UK. Following a successful Amnesty, the knifes were given to the British Ironworks in order to create a unique national monument. The knife angel sculpture will be the only national monument created from all 43 police forces around the […]
New Shipment arrives from the North
Just today our resident sculptor Alfie Bradley has travelled across the UK to make collections from our knife banks in the Lancashire and Yorkshire area. This was Alfies second trip to the Lancashire Amnesty bin, and therefore was not at all surprised by the massive collection we have come to expect from the area. After […]
BBC Midlands filming at the centre
This week we were lucky enough to have BBC Midland News come in and film with us, and help spread the word about our up and coming monument.