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Nottingham Space

The VRP, the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner, Nottinghamshire Police and National Justice Museum have collaborated to extend the engaging and powerful Choices and Consequences exhibit to educate young people about the consequences of knife crime through the stories of local victims and their families.

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Restorative Choices – Remedi

Remedi have developed a series of educational interventions to address the issues presented by knife crime and the exploitation of children and young people. 

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Switch Up 'Connect' Mentoring Project

Connect is a mentoring project that works with vulnerable young people in the community, providing them with an alternative world view, linking them to support and engaging them in more positive activities.

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GAMEPLAN - 3 Pillars

​3 Pillars are providing youth diversion to prevent crime and anti-social behaviour through a Nottingham Community Gym project. This is designed to support young people released under investigation (RUI) and who are at risk of being impacted by crime.

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Youth Diversion - Support through Sport

Support Through Sport Youth CIC are a young people led organisation.  Their project runs sessions and sport based activities in Stapleford, Mansfield and Sutton in Ashfield.  These locations have been identified by local intelligence as containing certain hotspots for knife crime, gang violence, exploitation and serious youth violence. Support through Sport’s work will aim to support young people through sports programmes followed by further initiatives, whilst tackling the rise in negative influences within the local community.

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Targeted Youth Outreach Project

The Targeted Youth Outreach Project is run by Breaking Barriers Building Bridges. Under this model their youth workers go to key areas in Nottingham City Centre and engage with groups of young people at risk of involvement in violence.

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Trauma Informed Prevention

Juno Women's Aid and Nottinghamshire Women's Aid are co-delivering a programme of Trauma Informed Prevention that works with children and young people aged 5-17 years who have been affected by witnessing violence and abuse to their non-abusing parent with the use of a knife.

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The Evolution Project - Base 51

The Evolution project extends the Base 51 therapeutic counselling offer to young people affected by serious violence, including next day access to drop in counselling, response to trauma, and ongoing therapies including art therapy.

The GROWTH Project - Al Hurraya

A crime reduction initiative within BAMER Communities that is delivered by Al Hurraya. The project provides workshops, counselling, one-to-one and group mentoring for young people most at risk of involvement in serious crime.

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The R Programme

The R programme is a secondary intervention provided by Evolve CiC that provides support to address issues around exploitation for young people in the Broxtowe and Bell Lane estates.

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Accredited Youth Work Training - Base 51

Base 51 Training Academy are offering fully funded, accredited youth work training to people working with children and young people from the voluntary and community sector across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. 

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​Another Way - YEF funded project

Another Way is a violence reduction project targeted at young people aged 14 to 24 years.  The project is limited to those who live in the City of Nottingham and who are seen to be at risk of violence – both as victims or offenders – due to associating with a group or gang or being exploited by a gang, for example through County Lines.   It will run until Summer 2025.

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Trauma Informed Partnership

The Trauma Informed Partnership Nottingham and Nottinghamshire is a collection

of organisations (mostly public and voluntary sector) working to promote trauma

informed approaches across the city and county.  

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