Funding: Funded by the Cabinet Office
Aim: To promote participation and citizenship
Children at a school in Camden are trying to change attitudes by running an anti-knife campaign as part of a London-wide scheme to promote citizenship.
Targeting their peers and the broader community, a group of Year 5 students at Brecknock Primary School set up a campaign to raise awareness of the impact knife crime has on the lives of victims, their families and the community as a whole.
It forms part of a wider scheme being run across the capital by education and participation charity, the Citizenship Foundation.
The children at Brecknock School were asked what they would like to campaign on. After settling on a knife crime campaign, the children devised a performance highlighting the impact of the issue that was performed to parents.
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