- direct and ongoing work with community groups, encouraging local people to get involved;
- pioneering gun crime research
- personal safety education projects in infant, junior and senior schools;
- work with young people, who may have been involved in criminal activity, on gun related art projects;
- the use of the no.18 bus as a canvas to promote anti-gun crime messages;
- support for Victim Support counsellors trained in murder / gun crime matters;
- work with the police on initiatives such as Automatic Number Plate Recognition;
- working in partnership with local youth projects to provide diversion activities for young people in music, arts and sports;
- peace dances;
- Brent gun crime conference;
- responding to the media and ensuring that the facts about gun crime related incidents are accurate;
- working with other boroughs, Trident, Peace Alliance.
A YouTube video published by Youthtalk of Brent Youth Radio sends a poignant message in song called 'That Street Life Project 74a' :
NAD Contacts
Lauretta Scott, Senior Community Safety Officer
T: 020 8937 1047 E: lauretta.scott@notanotherdrop.com
Other useful contacts can be found here. For further information go to www.notanotherdrop.com
Other initiatives for NAD
- Annual Peace March - held every September around the streets of Brent, since 2003. See some of the NAD peach march images here.
What can you do about gun crime?
If you have any information regarding the whereabouts of guns or those involved in gun crime you can tell the police anonymously by ringing Crimestoppers 0800 555 111.
