Project CitySafe Havens
Funding £24,800 from the Tackling Knives Action Programme
Purpose To provide refuges for young people who feel threatened
Background Joseph Lappin was just 16 when he was stabbed to death outside a Liverpool youth club after unwittingly walking into the middle of a gang argument. This and other incidents spurred local efforts to tackle violent and gang crime. "In north Liverpool in particular, we’d had our fair share of tragic youth deaths," explains Clare Corran, chief executive of Positive Futures North Liverpool. "Not all involved young people in gangs – some were just in the wrong place at the wrong time."
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