A growing coalition of churches, para-church groups, Christian agencies and organisations working to end serious youth violence in Britain and Ireland.
TOMORROW!
Standing Together Saturday - 19 July 2025
St Mark’s Church, Kennington, 10.30am – 5.30pm
Come along and mark the start of Synergy Network's “Standing Together Against Youth Violence” weekend.
Plus resources for Standing Together Sunday:
https://t.co/hR90yYELZ8
Standing Together Saturday - 19 July 2025
St Mark’s Church, Kennington, 10.30am – 5.30pm.
Come along and mark the start of Synergy Network's “Standing Together Against Youth Violence” weekend with a day of prayer and activities.
https://t.co/hR90yYELZ8
Synergy Network 'One Pledge One Change'
Bola Ojo, Vice-Chair of the Synergy Network, talks about the 'One Pledge One Change' campaign which aims to help reduce or eradicate violence against young people, and the Standing Together Weekend 19-20 July 2025.
https://t.co/RkrclxblXg
Ahead of Synergy Network’s Standing Together Weekend, which takes place on 19-20 July 2025, Bishop Lenford Rowe, Chair of the Synergy Network, encourages everyone to join the fight against the evil of knife violence.
https://t.co/FvimQbBT5S
Standing Together Saturday - 19 July 2025
St Mark’s Church, Kennington, 10.30am – 5.30pm.
Come along and mark the start of Synergy Network's “Standing Together Against Youth Violence” weekend with a day of prayer and activities.
https://t.co/hR90yYELZ8
National Gathering for @AscensionTrust
Friday 19 to Sat 20 September 2025
Staverton Park Hotel & Golf Club,
Daventry Rd, Daventry NN11 6JT.
Theme: Healing Hands, Healing Heads, Healing Hearts.
Early bird rate ends 28 Feb 2025
Full details:
https://t.co/GKwbBJ2ELd
We report on Ronan's Law, the UK Government's latest attempt to crack down on knife sales online, including a commentary from our coordinator:
https://t.co/IE4o29fJ9f
Plus join the One Pledge One Change campaign:
https://t.co/I2fVPZjT7L
'One Pledge One Change'
Bejoy Pal, CEO @AscensionTrust, introduces Synergy Network's 'One Pledge One Change' campaign, which aims to reduce or eradicate violence against young people.
https://t.co/I2fVPZjT7L
https://t.co/RotePx4ZTx
Let’s stand together now to end Violence Against Young People!
@WeAreSynergyNet is standing with those families and communities that have been impacted by Violence Against Young People (VAYP) at the start of this year.
https://t.co/WoJwUUYtup
'One Pledge One Change'
Bishop Lenford Rowe, Chair of the Synergy Network, introduces Synergy Network's 'One Pledge One Change' campaign, which aims to reduce or eradicate violence against young people.
https://t.co/I2fVPZkqXj
https://t.co/xBeByMrueg
Unite for Standing Together Weekend
19/20th July 2025
Churches, Christian organisations, and all others are invited to come together in unity, to bring our collaborative efforts towards reducing and bringing an end to violence against young people.
https://t.co/Tc0IO6nVZs
UK Government launches public consultation on plans to ban Ninja swords
Please respond by Wed 11 December 2024.
All responses will influence the next stage towards banning Ninja swords.
https://t.co/NVVZZq4dTy
Inter Faith Week
London’s Violence Reduction Unit’s Multi Faith Network has issued a statement for Inter Faith Week honouring the role of faith communities in supporting young Londoners:
#interfaithweek
https://t.co/EKHTd76aZG
Joe Lowther, CEO of @KICK_GB, describes how the organisation's mission is to transform young people’s lives, with God’s love, through sport and support - and how it is currently recruiting more staff.
https://t.co/pC1reT03kv
Nationwide call to surrender zombie-style knives and machetes
Synergy Network welcomes the amnesty scheme running until 23 September 24.
Please assist in this initiative if you can - together we can all work to stop the increase of serious knife crime.
https://t.co/dlZ66UiiCv
How effective is 'stop and search'?
In 2014, a young undergraduate addressed Conservative Party conference: he had been stopped over 20 times despite policy not being effective.
10 years on @YouthEndowFund study finds policy only cuts violence by 5%.
https://t.co/mXyjWzwmfo
REPORT
Only 6% of strip searches on children are for suspected weapons
Strip searches should “only be carried out on children where there is a clear and immediate risk of harm to themselves or to others”
- Children’s Commissioner for England
https://t.co/8m2DQBvNwZ
Celebrate life: from cultural events to peace education workshops
How @CelebLM evolved from putting on cultural events to creating the film ‘Power to Change’ and workshops, to help solve some of the problems young people are facing in London today.
https://t.co/vQqVS4ZhyX
Mayor of London announces £2 million funding to combat youth crime
£2 million package of activities and targeted interventions via @LDN_VRU this summer aims to divert young people away from violence by providing access to positive opportunities.
https://t.co/12zGkLcEyz
STATEMENTS
@WeAreSynergyNet and the Multi Faith Network set up by @LDN_VRU have made statements relating to the recent violence witnessed across many towns and cities:
https://t.co/7gq1uSA25u