West Country Crimestoppers - 'What Would You Do?' Bristol Film Showcase

Wed Oct 20 2021 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

St Michael's Centre | Bristol

Unique Voice CIC
Publisher/HostUnique Voice CIC
West Country Crimestoppers - 'What Would You Do?' Bristol Film Showcase
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Unique Voice and West County Crimestoppers are delighted to invite you to the 'What Would You Do?' (WWYD) Finale Film Showcase
About this Event

Unique Voice CIC and West County Crimestoppers are delighted to invite you to the 'What Would You Do?' (WWYD) Bristol Finale Film Showcase on Wednesday 20th October 2021, 6-8pm at the St Michael's Centre, Stoke Gifford.

This innovative project, 'Safe on my Street' was designed in collaboration with West Country Crimestoppers and Unique Voice CIC as an early intervention to issues such as; street crime, exploitation, knife crime, county lines, grooming, antisocial behaviour, domestic violence and online safety issues.

Throughout the project we have worked with young people from two Bristol primary schools, Westbury Park and Frome Vale Academy, who have explored these subjects through creative activities, culminating in the creation of two professionally produced films which highlight the children's learning and ideas on these subjects. With the help of Crimestoppers, the children have been creatively exploring how to speak out and stay safe when it comes to crime.

Join Crimestoppers in the West Country, Unique Voice, community members and most importantly the talented and creative minds of Bristol's young people aged 9-10 for a finale night of learning, celebration and a clear message that Crimestoppers can help our city become a safer place.

Please register your attendance below.

Please note, as this is an in person event, Covid controls will be in place throughout.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Unique Voice and West Country Crimestoppers

About the project;

In 2014, Crimestoppers in the West Country, Bristol Police and Unique Voice launched a pioneering programme to empower young people to cope with some of the challenges that they face today in their community. 

Together they designed and implemented a programme that used drama, song and dance to explore difficult issues raised by the pupils themselves – issues that they sometimes face on a daily basis resulting in the birth of the project 

‘What Would You Do?’ includes working with 9-10 year olds through drama based workshops and performance, the project is an early intervention to grooming for gang crime (including country lines), online safety, healthy relationships, mob mentality and exploitation. Within weekly sessions the children experience these themes through participatory led work, sharing their knowledge through performances and films; thus advocating key messages back to their family members and wider community either on the main stage or through community films. 

To date the project has worked with over 43 primary schools across Bristol and the South West benefitting over 2,500 young people, 43 school communities and thousands of parents / carers and families of the children. The 2018 outcome resulted in engaging over 800 community members to a performance finale at the Colston Hall in Bristol and, with over 70% of these audience members never attending events such as these. Past films from these events have been used locally and nationally to evidence how communities can report crime anonymously and confidently.

The project has evidenced an increase in the number of people who would now turn to Crimestoppers as a tool in reporting crime with over 85% of young people admitting that through the project they know the number and context in which Crimestoppers can help, mirrored to the initial 62%. These outcomes have been evaluated through analysing the participants questionnaires that they completed pre and post project which helps us measure any change in attitude or approach that we can link to their participation within ‘What Would You Do?’. The responses from the data also suggest that the project has impacted on the young people’s resilience, cohesion and outlook of their community by participating in exercises that encourage and celebrate their vision for a safer environment to live in. 

The main objective of this project is to look at how everyone can help to make their community a safer and a better place to be in , by learning how make an informed “choice” when faced with difficult challenges or decisions and how to Speak Up, Stop Crime, Stay Safe and remain 100% Anonymous Always using the Crimestoppers 0800 555 111 number or the online reporting forum at crimestoppers-uk.org.


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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

St Michael's Centre, St Michae's Centre, The Old School Rooms,, Bristol, United Kingdom

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