Past Successes - Always An Alternative
Monday, June 9th, 2025
in Past Successes, Projects The words not weapons project was created to raise awareness of knife crime though music. We started the project by visiting a service that provides support housing to young adults. We had a long discussion on knife crime. We recorded all of their thoughts and feelings about the issue and gave them to the artists. […]
Wednesday, March 6th, 2024
in Past Successes, Projects As successful as the cutting-edge exhibition was, we felt that it did not reach enough young people. So, we made the display portable and took it on tour to 16 schools around Sheffield. The exhibition consists of the Tree of opportunity which is made up of over 300 weapons prevented from hitting the streets of […]
Wednesday, March 6th, 2024
in Past Successes, Projects We worked with Big Take Media to produce a documentary that focused showing the true devastation that knife crime causes. In the documentary we talk about two people, from Sheffield whose lives were taken by knife crime, The premiere of the documentary was held at the town hall and was watched by over 100 people. […]
Wednesday, March 6th, 2024
in Past Successes, Projects Initially we wanted to create a movie within a music video, but the idea grew into a project in itself. We worked with 12 students from All Saints Catholic High School, Outwood Academy and Sheaf Training to create a short movie. After the initial meeting the students decided that they wanted to create […]
Wednesday, March 6th, 2024
in Past Successes, Projects This Documentary Series takes a look at the devastating impact that Knife Crime has on Families, friends and communities. Covering all angles, this series will give you a true understanding of knife crime. (Below is the link to the Documentary series) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1gvF79f1DQ2i80tDTOGijPtEddGXrdeY
Wednesday, March 6th, 2024
in Past Successes, Projects Boundaries, is a conscious song about making positive decisions by K dot, a well-known Sheffield rapper. I approached him with the idea of allowing a young person feature on the song and he was happy to be involved. We made an Instagram only competition for artists from South Yorkshire to enter. Out of all of […]
Friday, January 21st, 2022
in Past Successes, Projects During the pandemic we created a pen pal project for kids to help promote good mental health and well-being, make new friends and improve hand writing. It was a great success, we had over 100 children that took part and it spread all over the UK.
Friday, January 21st, 2022
in Past Successes, Projects Cutting-Edge Knife Crime Awareness Exhibition 300 weapons collected from the streets of south Yorkshire were used to create a magnificent sculpture by Jason Heppenstall. The tree of opportunity took weapons used to cause harm and created something that promotes positivity and change. This was the centrepiece for the exhibition, other exhibits from local artists all […]