West Yorkshire Violence Reduction Partnership

This is how our partnership works to tackle serious violence across West Yorkshire 👇📺👀 👇

@MayorOfWY @DeputyMayorPCWY #WYVRP

🚨 Young people of West Yorkshire, we need your ideas!

📢 We want fresh thinking on staying safe from gangs, crime and pressure from others to help shape a campaign seen across the region.

✅ Open to ages 11-25

👉 Find out more and enter: westyorks-ca.gov.uk/policing-and-c…

Knife surrender bins are helping us get dangerous weapons off West Yorkshire’s streets with 439 handed in throughout August.

The bins were installed thanks to @ukhomeoffice funding and support from district councils.

More information on the locations westyorks-ca.gov.uk/resources/knif…

From virtual reality workshops to empowering community leaders, we achieved so much last year.

Together with partners we funded over 75 interventions, helped reach 16,519 young people aged 24 and under, and trained 1,041 professionals.

Our annual report westyorks-ca.gov.uk/resources/west…

Two young Huddersfield artists are challenging perceptions of drill music by performing original tracks with a strings orchestra.

Our project is showing how drill music can offer young people a creative outlet and a way their voices can be heard.

westyorks-ca.gov.uk/news/young-hud…