Tag Archives: surrender your knife
North Yorkshire Knife Collection
Our trip up North on Thursday saw us collect knives and weapons from North Yorkshire Police. The force had carried out an amnesty across the region and the collection of weapons filled our vehicle for the journey back to Shropshire. We want to thank North Yorkshire for their support during our campaign and this is […]
Cleveland Police collection
Yesterday saw the collection of knives and weapons from Cleveland Police at their Middlesborough headquarters. The force have collected over 400 knives from amnesties and surrenders from across the county. We want to thank Cleveland Police for their dedication in tackling knife crime. Just like all of the other forces we have worked with, the […]
British Independent Retailers Association back new campaign
The British Independent retailers Association, is now in support of our efforts to highlight the need for greater efforts in preventing knives being used on the UK streets. Retailers are being informed of best practices and checklist info , for serving youths with knife sales. All facets of our society can play a more significant […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Police offer support
PC Dave Allen, PC Simon Yuile and PC Carl Jones thoroughly support the National Monument against Violence and Aggression and the drive to reduce knife crime. #SaveALife #SurrenderYourKnife
Merry Christmas
We’re hanging up our tools for the week and we will be back on the 2nd January. Many thanks to all of our loyal fans who have been amazing this year! We look forward to 2015, and welcome it with open arms. January will see the beginning of our Knife angel construction, and further campaigning to get […]
We may have missed….
Amongst our many updates we may have let some of our fantastic supporters slip through the cracks, so we’ve decided to compile a post dedicated to images of our campaign to date – sorry if we missed you – your support is very much appreciated.
West Mercia Police Deliver 5k Knives
Today West Mercia Police in conjunction with Biffa Skips and environmental waste management, have delivered a large shipment of knives that have been relinquished for our cause. The delivery took place today in our centre in Oswestry Shropshire, the knives where placed into a controlled environment where our specially trained workers will de-contaminate and […]