Funded through the Knife Crime Action Fund from Cleveland Unit for the Reduction of Violence (CURV), Middlesbrough Football Club Foundation are helping to deliver a serious message.
Statistics show that our area ranks highly in knife crime and that unwanted fact is being tackled head-on.
At the commencement of Knife Crime Awareness Week 2025, Matt Storey, Cleveland Police and Crime Commissioner, launched Cleveland’s Knife Crime Action Plan, developed by Cleveland Unit for the Reduction of Violence (CURV), to reduce the harm caused by knife-enabled crime.
The plan has been shaped through consultation with organisations across Cleveland, focusing on prevention and education, early intervention, community action and positive opportunities for young people.
At the launch was the No More Red Wall: No Safe Place to Stab – a football-themed knife crime education wall, developed in partnership with ourselves and local vascular surgeon Barnabas Green.
There are signs that long-running messages are having an effect. Collaborative efforts involving different organisations, including CURV-funded interventions, have seen knife crime involving under 25s is already down 12% in the last 12 months to December 2024.
Please watch and listen to the video and do what you can to spread the message.