Housing Associations in Croydon and Youth Agencies are staging an anti gun & knife abomination acquaintance accident for the adolescent humans of Croydon.
The aim of the accident is to:
Raise acquaintance amidst adolescent humans on the dangers of gun and knife abomination and assemblage captivation and abate the accident of adolescent humans entering into anti-social bent or added adverse action by accouterment a ambit of absolute activities.
To accommodate an befalling for adolescent humans to accurate themselves on gun and knife-related issues affecting them and advance routes to education, training opportunities and employment.
To animate communities to affiliate and accomplish a angle adjoin the abandon on the streets:
To actualize a belvedere for approaching affiliation alive and best convenance and accession contour of partnerships involved.
The accident is chargeless and aimed at adolescent humans age-old amid 11- 19. They will accept the befalling to accompany in workshops, seminars, catechism and acknowledgment session, watch a screening of anti gun blur Hip Hop Opera and accept to abide performances centred about the affair of Gun & Knife crime.
The programme of contest on the day will include:
* Workshops conducted by Foundation 4 Life on assorted capacity and issues which will be interactive, agreeable and motivational
* Screening of Don’t Trigger Film: Hip Hop Opera: A blur that hi-lights the adverse after-effects of gun abomination on our streets anecdotal by bounded Croydon Youth
* Question & Answer Session: An befalling for adolescent humans to accept their say and put their questions to Key Croydon People: Police, Council, MPs, ex-gang members, parents who accept absent accouchement to gun and knife crime.
* Speeches from bounded parents who accept absent accouchement to gun & knife crime
* Live performances from UK recording artisan & MOBO champ Chipmunk alongside bearding bounded aptitude acts JKadet, Dominic Norman, Dvyne and Kandice Johnson
The accident is chargeless and accessible to all adolescent humans amid the ages of 11 and 19 in the community', and will accomplishment at 5.30pm. Free refreshments will be provided.
Kevin Jones, the Neighbourhood Services Director L&Q said, 'The success of the Put It Down accident endure year approved that gun and knife abomination is a actual absolute affair for adolescent humans . We accept an important role to play actuality and I'm captivated that we're acknowledging Put It Down 2. '
Put It Down: Part 2
Wednesday 26th August 2009
Fairfield Hall Park Lane Croydon
1pm – 5.30pm
Free accident - Strictly Ticket only: Ticket advice line:
L&Q Housing: 0208 875 5964
AmicusHorizon: 07970 961250
Don’t Trigger: 07956 101387
For added advice contact:
Lucia Hinton on 0207 735 0012/ 07956 101 387
Email: urbanconceptsuk@fsmail.net
Notes to editors
L&Q are the advance Housing Association on this activity
Put It Down: Part 2 is accepting staged/funded/supported by the afterward organisations:
L&Q, AmicusHorizon , Broomleigh Housing Association , Croydon Churches Housing Association , Family Mosaic , Servite Houses ,South London YMCA
Wandle Housing Association, Wealden Services (L&Q Contractor)
Foundation4Life, Rap Academy, Urban Concepts
L&Q
L&Q is one of the UK’s better apartment associations and manages about 60,000 homes above London and the South-East. L&Q is committed to advance in bounded neighbourhoods and communities and has committed Neighbourhood Investment teams. L&Q works in affiliation with bounded authorities and bounded and civic autonomous and association agencies to advance opportunities for residents.
Foundation4Life
Foundation 4 Life (F4L) is a arena breaking consultancy which specializes in the training, appointment and accumulation of ‘Behavioural Modification Workshops/ Programmes for adolescent offenders or adolescent humans who are advised to be at accident of offending/ re-offending. Central to F4L is our different aggregation of professionally accomplished adapted ex-offenders /gang members. F4L accept developed a Qualified Peer Mentors Scheme which sees College Students & Our Workers are akin up with adolescent humans at accident of offending/ exclusion This forms allotment of our packaged programme alms or as a stand-alone service. F4L’s Training Service offers a ambit of specialist training courses for practitioners and individuals alive with adolescent offenders. Foundation 4 Life is an accustomed Training and Employment Channel for Ex-Offenders.
Don’t Trigger Campaign www.dont-trigger.com
A civic anti gun campaign, adopting acquaintance and highlighting the confusion that gun and knife abomination has on families and communities. The blur ‘Hip Hop Opera’ is a admixture of fiction, fact, music videos, docu-film and contributions from politicians and absolute victims. This harder hitting account shows how a bearings of boldness can amplify to adverse consequences. Hip Hop Opera contains scenes of battle resolution; affection acquainted testimonies from parents who accept absent accouchement to gun and knife abomination and speeches from politicians, chief badge and association leaders. This 30 minute blur will be anecdotal by adolescent humans from Croydon who will act out scenes of battle resolution. The adolescent humans will be called afterwards an audience staged in affiliation with Foundation for Life
Chipmunk
Jahmaal Fyffe, complete November 1990 is best accepted by the date name Chipmunk a aftereffect of his abnormal dentition. He is a Mobo Award acceptable rapper from England. He appear his mixtape, "League of My Own", on 11 February 2008 and fabricated a music video for "Who Are You". He was again featured on "Defeat You" with N-Dubz. On 1 December 2008 he appear the individual "Beast". The song accustomed airplay on BBC 1Xtra but didn't administer to get into the UK Singles Chart. On 2 March 2009, he appear his next individual "Chip Diddy Chip", which accomplished amount 21 in The Official UK Chart. The video featured abounding artists in the video, as able-bodied as Flawless ball group. His admission flat album is due to be appear in 2009. Chipmunk was aswell featured on the remix of "Take Me Back" by Taio Cruz and Tinchy Stryder. Chipmunk afresh accepted to MTV on set of his video shoot for "Diamond Rings" he said that afterwards discussions with his administration he would be signing his aboriginal almanac accord with Sony Music afterwards a continued behest war to assurance him.
Croydon
Croydon has about 90,000 adolescent humans and the better amount age-old 10-17 of the 32 London Boroughs. Just over 45,000 accouchement and adolescent humans are of academy age [5-16]. During academy appellation time about 50,000 adolescent humans biking through Croydon afore and afterwards academy hours. Croydon has the accomplished amount of adolescence victims of abomination in London.
Source: Croydon Crime Reduction Strategy
National Youth Agency
One in 5 16-year-old boys accepted advancing anyone intending to aching them seriously. Twenty-five per cent of adolescent humans at academy accepted that they had agitated a penknife compared to 46 percent of afar acceptance
Nearly bisected of afar adolescent humans (47%) accept to accepting agitated a weapon, but say they never acclimated it. A added 21 per cent accept threatened somebody with a knife.
Of these, 30 per cent accept agitated a flick knife, 20 per cent an air gun and 16 per cent a kitchen knife
Source: www.nya.org.uk
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