Category Archives: Families
June 5th, the first step
Today is the day! We wanted to remind all of our visitors here today that there is a strict Embargo on today’s events. No photography or filming to take place during the Knife Angel’s move. The one show have already arrived to start filming. We are sorry for the inconvenience but this is a huge […]
Led By Lanterns – Save a Life
Led By Lanterns are a four piece rock band from Birmingham, who have created a song in support of our campaign. Boots, Chris, Shaun & Brad have created the single inspired by our national campaign, Save a Life, Surrender your Knife, to raise awareness of the affects of knife crime and violence. See the music […]
Joshua Ribera’s family visit us on his Birthday
Last week we had a very poignant visit from Dea Paradisos and her family. Dea is Auntie to Joshua Ribera, who tragically died from a fatal knife attack. Joshua’s mother Alison Cope has been a huge supporter of our campaign and against knife crime in general. Dea and the family visited on Joshua’s birthday last […]
Family searching for justice visit campaign headquarters
Yesterday Tracey Hanson and her daughter Brooke visited the Ironworks for the first time. They came to see the Monument after hearing so much about our campaign and what we are aiming to achieve. Tracey, sadly lost her son, Josh, In a unprovoked and motiveless attack in October last year and 8 months on, Josh’s […]
Michelle Mchale visits the sculpture
Our friend and supporter Michelle McHale visited The British Ironwork Centre with her family this week to catch up with Alfie and to see how the sculpture is coming along. Michelle is the founder of the charity Raising Aspirations and is working closely with us to gain the support from police forces across the nation. […]
Rest Easy Depz
One of our great supporters, Alison Cope has sent us this image, the beautiful grave of her son, Joshua Ribera. Alison lost her son to a fatal knife attack and has been a fierce campaigner against knife crime ever since and a huge supporter of our campaign. The headstone in the photo was created at […]
Supporters of our campaign
The National Monument against Violence and Aggression – Knife Angel campaign continues to grow with even more supporters joining on a daily basis. Our aim to remove 100,000 knives off the streets of the UK is forever moving closer and with only a small number of police forces still to join the campaign is nearly […]
Everlasting messages
With so many individuals and families affected by knife crime wanting to inscribe an everlasting message on the angel, we have created an inscription form, especially to help those people who would struggle in travelling here. The number of characters, limitations over lines or length will be clearly laid out. There is absolutely no cost, […]