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Sad Truth #1: Knife Crime Is No Longer Shocking – It’s Routine
Knife crime in the UK has shifted from being an occasional headline to an everyday reality. In England and Wales, police record around 50,000 knife‑related offences a year — roughly one every 10 minutes. In 2025–26 alone, over 53,000 knife crimes were logged, with London accounting for nearly 30–31% of all incidents despite holding just 14% of the population. What’s more disturbing is who is affected: over 60% of victims are aged 16–34, and almost half of knife possession offences involve children aged 10–17. Knife homicides remain the most common form of homicide in England and Wales, with over 200 deaths each year. This is no longer about isolated acts of violence — it’s a normalised threat woven into daily life, particularly for young people growing up in deprived urban areas. Our Solution: Our dream is to make every knife in every household in these areas, traceable. Using our partner QR Secure’s TRAQ(R)ODE system and laser etching technology. And... any humble smartphone. This Helps the police trace where the knives come from, which is a huge deterrent for anybody wanting take a knife from your kitchen to weald on the streets of your community. Fighting Back!!!
Sad Truth #2: Phone Theft Is Fuel for Organised Crime and Identity Fraud
Mobile phone theft has exploded into an industrial‑scale crime across the UK. In the year ending March 2025, 272,000 phones were stolen, a 16% increase on the previous year — that’s one phone every 7–8 seconds. London remains the epicentre, with over 116,000 phones stolen annually, but major cities like Manchester, Birmingham, and Leeds are seeing similar organised gang activity. Today’s phone theft isn’t just about the handset; it’s about banking apps, identity access, and financial fraud. Security reports show 40% of victims experience identity or financial abuse after theft, often within hours. Despite this, 11.6 million people in the UK still have basic phone security disabled, making theft easier and recovery unlikely — only about 12% of stolen phones, at present are ever recovered. Phone theft now directly funds organised crime networks exporting devices overseas for resale, turning everyday commuters into unwitting contributors to serious criminal economies. Our Solution: We make all phones and computers/laptops fully traceable using the technology supplied by our partners QR Secure. This creates strong evidence, helping the Police when apprehending offenders, as it leaves no doubt the equipment is stolen. Fight Back!!!
Sad Truth #3: Tool Theft Is Destroying Livelihoods, Not Just Vans
Tool theft in the UK has reached crisis level, yet it’s still often dismissed as minor crime. In reality, tradespeople are being hit every 21 minutes, with 30,000–31,000 tool thefts recorded annually. In 2025 alone, the crime rose 16% year‑on‑year, costing tradespeople nearly £56 million when lost tools, missed work, and downtime are combined. The average theft costs a victim £1,500–£2,400, and nearly 1 in 3 tradespeople say they have had tools stolen at least once — with 37% suffering repeat attacks. Most thefts come from vans, which act as mobile workshops, and organised criminal networks are increasingly targeting them. For many sole traders, losing tools means work stops immediately, bills don’t get paid, and small businesses fold. This isn’t inconvenience — it’s economic harm inflicted on working people trying to earn a living. Our Solution: Using the supplied laser etching technology from our partner QR Secure, we can make every tool in your household uniquely traceable back to you, whether recovered by the police or found by a stranger, using nothing more than a humble smartphone. Fight Back!!!
School Health Education Programmes
School Health and Social Education Programmes have never been more important in todays society. Communities benefit from education. We provide education programmes to educate children in Primary years 5-6, Ages 9-11, and Secondary schools to 6th form and College. ‘Meet the Stinkers’ is our fun interactive panto-esque show, which through laughter addresses the very serious topic of nicotine addiction and cannabis. It has pre and post questionnaires and an After-Show Q&A. For a target audience of Primary School year 5-6 children Age 9-11. The kids love the funny actors, interactive experiments and enjoy the magic of the puppets. This high result-achieving show previously serviced many schools, nationally under its pre Covid home of POP (Sadly no more), to many local authorities. We are so proud to be delivering this proven schools health education programme back into schools. First piloted with West Berkshire Council, who were so impressed with the results, the show continued with their support and statistical monitoring, to be shown in many targeted schools in their area. Quickly joined by Oxfordshire County Council, Kent County Council, Bracknell Forrest Council, Reading Borough Council, Mansfield Council via Solutions4Health Ltd, Wokingham Borough Council, it was becoming very popular but… covid had other plans. Theatre in Schools being the hardest hit and the last to return. This show as an addition showed itself as very affective for flagging safe guarding issues. ASHTAG An Education Programme for Older More Inquisitive Minds. Classroom discussions on Smoking Cigarettes, Vaping and Cannabis. Age 11-18 Our Upper / Secondary Schools and college presentation programme, as you would expect, is a completely different dynamic. Our Interactive classroom presentations open the floor to fun open debated Q&A sessions, with no holds barred questions and challenges. Here we discuss vaping and cannabis in a lot more detail, as students tend have more questions regarding these. HASHTAG This education programme covers drug and alcohol abuse among the youth. Partnering with specialised organisations, we deliver presentations to fit the needs of the community and the issues they present in its schools. We work closely with our partners to deliver these. Issues around cannabis, nitrous oxide and alcohol are discussed in detail here. However, arrangements can be made for other drugs if requested. SLASHTAG We are proud to work with various knife crime specialist charities surrounding this brutal topic and working closely with them we deliver age-appropriate presentations or performances to educate on subjects most students don’t think about. Helping students not act in ignorance, but make informed decision through education. Short acted out scenarios, followed by a Q&A, hot-spotting the characters after delivering the liaised script. Or an arranged Q&A’s with people affected by knife crime and organised crime. A Point of view presentations with guest speaker surviver victims and of ex gang members, telling harsh reality and Sad truths. Themed music and... Sometimes with Rap and Singing performers. Anything to connect and Fight Back! BASHTAG This is about gang culture, working with specialist organisations, sometimes law enforcement officers and ex- gang members, through open discussion, we look at areas like: How it targets and grooms, the punish and reward culture, designed to get results through fear of not belonging. County line wars and expectations
How to deal with it and keep yourself and family members safe.
What help is available out there with contact details should a student need it. (All provided on a blanket system, everyone gets a pack, and nobody needs to be singled out by asking). We don’t pretend to have all the answers. That’s why we partner with, and collaborate with, specialist organisations/charities to provide and deliver projects, ensuring we always deliver with specialist expertise for accuracy and have all programmes presented and signed off by necessary authorities, ensuring it hits the brief before its placed in any school due to the sensitivity of some of the subjects. We always ensure age-appropriate programmes for our targeted demographic. Areas tend to be assessed as being in need by local authorities and law enforcement agencies. We welcome monitoring as we love our statistics which enable us to grow. Evidence suggests, there is a strong correlation between offences caused by children, teenagers and young adults and ADHD, within unsupported environments. ADHD can create poorer education or exclusion from school, both of these are factors that contribute unemployment and anti- social behaviour. Around 25% of UK prisoners are estimated to have ADHD [mk-law.co.uk], [olliers.com] In some studies 45% of youth offenders show ADHD traits [cepip.org] 5–10x higher rates than the general population [rcpsych.ac.uk] Most people in the justice system with ADHD also have other conditions such as substance misuse, conduct disorder / behavioural issues and have had trauma or/and school exclusion. In fact, up to 96% of prisoners with ADHD have another mental health condition. What’s important to remember is people with ADHD don’t have a criminal gene. [rcpsych.ac.uk] Most people with ADHD never commit crime and we are in no way implying that they do. It’s mainly about risk factors, not intent. Core ADHD traits linked to risk are Impulsivity (acting without thinking), Poor emotional control (aggression, conflict), Low attention / planning (poor decision-making) and Risk-taking behaviour. [blog.govnet.co.uk] ADHD young people start offending earlier and reoffend more often [cepip.org] Persistent ADHD (into adulthood) is linked to poor education outcomes, unemployment and antisocial behaviour [pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov] We are passionate about doing what we can here, we believe it’s a factor that needs addressing to help Communities Fightback. Proper support can reduce criminal behaviour significantly. We can’t diagnose, but we can certainly increase awareness around this issue. Estimates suggest treatment could reduce offending by 32% in men and 41% in women [mk-law.co.uk] That’s why police, NHS, and MoJ are pushing early diagnosis. ADHD + environment + lack of support = higher risk We believe in working and partnering with ADHD charities to provide support, by actively bringing support, help and information to our events, makes a difference to people with ADHD traits and their families and… the community. We believe guidance and education through partnerships is key. Download this as a PDF Document
OUR MISSION
We aim to make a difference in the community, helping one household at a time. Our role is to help communities fight back against those few in their community, who actively work against the community, targeting main areas: knife crime, gang culture / grooming, tech snatch theft, tool theft and car crime. We can do this by using a system generously supplied by one of our partners, QR Secure Ltd, to help us support the Police in their role to fight crime on behalf of the communities they are sworn to protect! We are proud to work with law enforcement, local authorities, other partners and specialist charities, as we work together at the heart of communities.
Of course with thanks to our funders, we couldn't do this without you.
We are dedicated to deliver:
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Street laser marking events, making all items traceable.
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Community awareness campaigns.
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Working extensively in schools. Education is key!
Community Fightback Launch!!!
Welcome to our new Community Fightback CIC and our brand new website! Join us, and our partners, on our journey as we reach out across the country to help communities fight back against crime, making a difference one household at a time!
Devito's Circus
Power of Play Therapy
QR Secure
If you'd like to partner with us, please drop us an email: fightback@communityfightback.org
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