Knife crime is at the heart of The Ben Kinsella Trust’s story.

It was launched in 2008 after 16-year-old Ben was stabbed to death whilst on a night out with friends in Islington.

The charity has a simple tag line – “Enough is enough. Let’s stop knife crime.”

Tom Jewkes, operations manager and head of programmes, said that more than 15 years on into its mission, the trust remains “hopeful” that it will one day see a “society free of knife crime”.

Without hope he believes it will “fail”.

Tom said: “As we all know, knife crime is obviously a huge, systemic, societal problem which quite frankly has just been left to get out of control for at least the last decade.

"We see that reflected in the statistics but more importantly the impact that it's having up and down the country and especia

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