You should start to run fast. Get out of that situation quickly, because something isn't right." This is one of the messages Gary Payne regularly tells children and young people who attend his Life Skills programme.
Before founding the programme, Payne was a defensive tactics instructor working with the police and the army.
He believes young people need to be educated early on to stay safe. "Some knife-awareness programmes start when young people are already aged between 12 and 15. We chose to aim our programmes at children as young as five and up to the late teens. We want to get in there before children are exposed to knives," he explains.
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