Only Cowards CarryOnly Cowards Carry
“Knives and other weapons are not cool, they kill.”
Only Coward’s Carry’s overall campaign is to educate school children, from primary school age upwards, on the dangers of carrying weapons.
Our campaigners believe that by raising awareness of knife/weapon crime and putting the Only Cowards Carry messages across to students at a young influential age, it could bring about the necessary mind-set changes desperately needed to ensure our future generations and entire communities feel safe and are protected from the threat of violence, knife and weapon crime.
Our first mission is to collect signatures to petition for weapon awareness education to become part of the National Curriculum in the same way that other safety awareness operations and sex education currently are.
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- Karl Duguid and Michael Rose form Colchester United show their support for Only Cowards Carry alongside Holly Fairburn, Jay’s siter and Caroline Shearer, Jay’s mum
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- Caroline and Sir Bob Russell setting up shop with the cookie crew
Knife and weapon crime in particular doesn’t just affect those who are victims; it has a massive impact on the wider community too. Only Cowards Carry’ s additional aim is to push forward the idea that people who do carry knives and weapons are not only being irresponsible but are they actually acting cowardly by doing so.
Some of our courageous campaigners, who sadly have first-hand experience of the devastation weapon crime and murder can and does cause, have already visited local schools to speak to young students in order to raise awareness of the effects of weapon crime, explaining how by carrying a dangerous weapon you could end up killing someone and devastating hundreds of people’s lives. They were concerned that when asking over 300 primary school children what they would do if they saw someone carrying a knife or other dangerous weapon not one child said they should tell an adult.
Only Coward’s Carry’ is working in association the Gazette’s ‘Lives not Knives’ campaign.
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will you be adding a petition the website? Julie
I was moved by Jay’s senseless death, and congratulate you on your campaign. Thanks to Colchester Weekly News for spreading awareness.
We set up the Flavasum Trust after Dolores’ 22-year-old son was stabbed to death while he was working in a sound recording studio in Islington in 2006. The young man who did it was a schizophrenic and is currently in Broadmoor, although it looks like he will be moved into a lower-risk facility soon. We also strongly believe that primary-school children should be made aware of the danger of carrying a knife, which is why we supported one of our partners taking a play about knife crime into Junior Citizen days in a North London borough. We’re now evaluating what impact it had on over a thousand Year 6 pupils. Whatever the outcome, the earlier we can make the case against carrying knives (or other weapons) the better. Good luck with your campaign…
I hope this campaign goes a long way to stopping the senseless stabbing of young people.. RIP Jay, my heart goes out to his family xxx