FOCUS YOUR
ACTIVITIES
There are three key areas where you can get involved, focus your activities, and help us to achieve our campaign goals.
Working with the national campaign
As a local campaigner, you can help deliver the the national campaign messages, tailoring them as you see fit, and adding your local insight and expertise to get the best results.
You can use the free national campaign materials in your own local anti knife crime activites. Also, if you'd like to use the IDHTH logo in your local campaigning please contact us to find out more.
You can share your ideas and experiences of tackling knife crime with the IDHTH campaign team. These are shown in our campaigner profiles and case studies. Why not contact us to tell us about your project? You can also call on us for support, guidance and advice at any time.
Working with young people
As a local campaigner, we know that you know your area better than we do. You're also likely to know the local target audience and where to find them. You are therefore best placed to deliver the campaign messages to young people most at risk, and to communicate alternatives to, and routes out of, gang culture and knife crime.
In particular, recruiting local youth ambassadors could really help to make an impact. Local ambassadors are young people who can facilitate peer-to-peer engagement and promote your campaign. But you need to make sure you approach the right people for the task.
For more information on working with young people in your area, download the local campaigners' toolkit.
Working with parents and carers
Parents and carers (and mothers in particular) can have a strong influence over their children's behaviour and/or decision-making. They offer vital access to young people, and opportunities to sway them in their decisions.
Engaging with parents and carers at local level could be of major strategic value to your campaign. They could make powerful campaign partners, and could also be encouraged to become local campaigners themselves.
By guiding mothers to the Talk About Knives website and materials , you can also help to encourage positive dialogue with young people, helping to keep them safe and steer them away from carrying knives.