CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES

LOCATION: NOTTINGHAM ONLY

Award winning anti-knife crime prevention workshops for key stage 2 upwards, specifically aimed at young people who are unlikely to have considered carrying a knife. Working in partnership with the Ben Kinsella Trust, Choices and Consequences is proven to encourage positive behaviours and attitudes against carrying knives.

Choices and Consequences, Nottingham mirrors the ground-breaking prevention approach to combating knife crime pioneered by The Ben Kinsella Trust in Islington, London.

It tells the story of Ben Kinsella, who was tragically killed in 2008 aged just 16, and is a vehicle to encourage young people to think about the consequences of carrying a knife and the choices they can make to avoid becoming impacted by violence.

In November 2022 we launched The Nottingham Space, an expansion of Choices and Consequences, created in partnership with Nottinghamshire Police and Crime Commissioner Caroline Henry and her Violence Reduction Unit, Nottinghamshire Police and the National Justice Museum. In a series of candid videos, local families who have lost loved ones to knife crime open up about their devastation - in the hope that their experiences bring the reality of knife crime closer to home and prevent any more Nottinghamshire families going through the same ordeal.

Themes covered

• The dangers of carrying a knife
• The consequences of carrying and associating with those carrying knives
• The law and how it applies to knife crime cases
• The realities of prison life
• Making positive choices to stay safe
• Making safe decisions when it comes to good friends

Thanks to generous funding, Choices & Consequences is free for schools, colleges and groups. Please enquire for more information.

Choices and Consequences is a partnership between the Ben Kinsella Trust and the National Justice Museum.