Date: 3rd February 2015 Posted by: admin In: Uncategorised

 

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.

 

All of the banks carry absolutely no cost for the police forces, all banks are designed, sign written or livered as each Police Force or community group directs.

All knives collected will go towards building the UK’s only National statue, a spectacular 20-23 feet tall Angel statue ( Known as Knife Angel ) symbolising the nation’s stance against violence and aggression.

 

The Angel will be created from 100,000 knives and will take most of 2015 to complete , its hoped the Angel will be erected in Trafalgar Square on the Forth Plinth b, thereafter residing in one of the UK’ s cities permanently.

Chairman Clive Knowles of the British Ironworks, is calling for all the 43 UK police forces to contribute knives , together with all the campaign groups fighting knife crime and families affected by knife or street violence.