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Family Tours

Family Tours of Hazard Alley Are Back!

Here at The Safety Centre, we are all about empowering people through the life-saving safety skills and knowledge that we share on our tours. We are delighted to announce that Family Tours are back during this October Half Term!

We are thrilled to be opening our doors once again, to welcome families to Hazard Alley to enjoy our fun and interactive educational tours which will take place on Monday 28th and Wednesday 30th October. Book your tickets here. To avoid disappointment, please book your tickets early for the chance to experience our famous Hazard Alley Tour!

** If you would like to come in a group please make one booking so that we can keep you together for your tour.**

Family Tours At The Safety Centre

Just like our school visits, you will be guided around each of our safety scenarios by one of our friendly volunteer guides. You will learn about the risks and potential dangers we face in every day life and the things you can do to keep yourself and your friends, family and community safe.

From understanding the importance of smoke detectors and keeping your personal information safe to learning how to cross the road safely and how fast a train can travel, there will be lots for you to discover.

Children will also get the incredible opportunity to make a practise 999 emergency phone call. During this call, they will need to remember what emergency service their require, where the accident has taken place and what has happened. An amazing skill that could save a life in a real emergency.

Is there any better place to visit during half term?

Details and FAQs

Family tours are for children aged 6- 11 years old and their responsible adult aged 18 or over. Children must be accompanied by an adult for their tour of the centre.

Facts and Info:

Who is this tour for? Tours are for children aged between 6 years to 11 years and their responsible adult aged 18 or over who must accompany them during their tour. Adults are not able to attend the tours on their own without a child.

Can we buy tickets for younger siblings? Unfortunately our centre does not have facilities for children under 6 years old or babies/toddlers. Our tours are designed for Primary School aged children in Years 2-6 (aged 6-11). Our safety scenarios are not suitable for younger children, who are under the age of 6 years old.

Will the tour be suitable for older siblings over 11 years old? Our tours are designed for Primary School aged children between 6-11 years old only, so unfortunately older children are unable to attend.

Where can I park? We have free onsite parking outside the front of our building. There is also an overflow carpark at the back of our building. If you are using this carpark, please walk around to the front of our centre by using the grey gate at the side of our building.

Disabled access: Our centre is wheelchair friendly and we also have a disabled access toilet on site.

We have a child with SEND. How will you support us during our tour? Please include any SEND information that you’d like our teams to be aware of when completing your booking. Our staff will seek to adapt your tour to ensure your group enjoys your visit to Hazard Alley. Please call our team on 01908 263009 to discuss any questions you have around your booking.

What time do we need to arrive? Please arrive 15 minutes before the start of your tour to get settled into groups. You may be grouped with others depending on the size of your booking party. Groups will be made of 6 people.

Can we bring dogs? The only animals permitted in the centre are guide dogs.

Is there a café? Sadly we do not have a café on site. You are welcome to bring drinks and snacks to eat before the tour begins but you will not be able to take these with you into Hazard Alley.

Is there somewhere to leave bags? Please only bring essential items with you, that you can carry into our education centre. We do have a briefing room where you can leave coats and drinks bottles but these will be left at your own risk. The Safety Centre Charity is unable to take responsibility for the loss of any personal items and valuables that you bring into the centre.

Is there a gift shop? Yes! Gift bags range between £1 to £5 and can be purchased by cash or card.

Do you have toilets? Yes we do. We have female and male toilets and a disabled toilet.

Looking For Further Information?

If you have a question that isn’t included above or want to find out more information about the other services we provide, please contact a member of our friendly team on 01908 263009 or email bookings@safetycentre.co.uk

07/07/2024
30 Years of Safety Education Through Partnership Working

30 Years of Lifesaving Safety Education Made Possible With Partnership Working

The Safety Centre was built on partnership working with organisations including Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue and Thames Valley Police to deliver key safety education messages to children and young people across the country. Thirty years on, this partnership working continues and in the latest of our videos celebrating our 30th birthday we’re talking with Paul Scanes, Head of Prevention at Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue and Matthew Barber, Police and Crime Commissioner for Thames Valley. They both talk about the impact of working together to promote safety within our communities today and in the future. As well as the importance of investing in safety education to support the prevention work of the fire service and police.

Accessing Lifesaving Safety Education

Our safety education workshops are delivered into schools across the country and schools visit our education centre Hazard Alley based in Kiln Farm Milton Keynes for immersive scenario based safety education. Our experienced and qualified education team cover topics including online safety, drug and alcohol safety, knife crime, road safety and violence against women and girls.

15/02/2024
Safety Centre Celebrates 30th Birthday With Launch Of Violence Against Women And Girls Programme For 20,000 School Children

Celebrating 30 Years Of Lifesaving Learning With VAWG Programme

The Safety Centre charity is launching a pioneering Violence Against Women & Girls Education programme to celebrate its 30^th year of delivering lifesaving safety education. The safety education charity, which specialises in immersive interactive safety education, will deliver the pilot programme to over 20,000 11-13 year olds over the next 3 years and is seeking support from national funders to expand the programme across the UK, educating more young people on this vital subject.

The programme will ensure that children, young people, their parents and teachers recognise the importance of equity, respect and personal safety. Helping to create a culture of positive behaviours amongst young people, enabling students to discuss what’s acceptable, and how to react if they see something they know isn’t right.

The Safety Centre has received £98,170 from the Milton Keynes Community Foundation to pilot this project in Milton Keynes. The charity is seeking additional support from regional and national funders to deliver the programme into schools across the country.

Maya Joseph-Hussain CEO of the Safety Centre said,

‘We’re excited to announce the launch of our new Violence Against Women & Girls safety education programme for primary and secondary school students. This education programme will create an empowered community to have courageous conversations, increasing their understanding of the individual impact of their actions, which can make a big difference in their communities and wider society and support women and girls for years to come. As a White Ribbon accredited organisation the Safety Centre is committed to supporting and empowering young people across the country to understand the risks around Violence Against Women & Girls, for victims and perpetrators.

We’d like to thank Milton Keynes Community Foundation for their support funding this project with a three-year strategic grant, enabling us to empower local children. We hope the charity’s investment in our safety education work in our hometown will inspire other funders to support us educating children across the country. We are launching a fundraising appeal to ensure we are here for children and young people today and in the future. Without ongoing support children and young people will miss out on education that could save their lives.’

The charity is also celebrating 30 years of lifesaving learning, delivering safety education to children, young people and adults. The charity started in January 1994 with its interactive safety education centre, the first in the world, Hazard Alley which still operates today. The charity works to create safe flourishing communities for the future, teaching children, young people and adults safety skills for everyday life and emergency situations.

Support The Safety Centre

We’re calling on businesses and individuals to support our work to ensure that safety education can continue for children today and in the future. Support our work here.

24/01/2024
Safety Centre Wins Thames Valley Awards Charity Of The Year

Safety Centre Wins Charity Of The Year Award

Awards Update

We’re excited to share that the Safety Centre has won the Thames Valley Business & Communities Awards Charity of the Year award! This award celebrates the achievements of charities across Thames Valley and their impact across the region. Receiving regional recognition for our early intervention and prevention safety education work is an important moment for the Safety Centre.

Chief Executive Maya Joseph-Hussain said,

Winning the Thames Valley Business & Community Awards is a fantastic achievement for the Safety Centre. As we head towards 30 years of delivering lifesaving safety education, this recognition of our lifesaving work is so important. It’s recognition that our team of expert educators and inspiring volunteers are very proud of. Safety education is an essential life skill for young people and we’re excited to receive regional support and acknowledgement for our lifesaving work.

Alec Jones-hall, Director of Thames Valley Business and Community Awards said

We are proud and excited to be celebrating outstanding achievement across the region and rewarding those who are making a huge impact throughout the Thames Valley. It is also a time for the business community to come together, not only to celebrate the accomplishments of those shortlisted and the deserving winners of each category, but also to mark the fact that we all continue to play a vital role in the success of our region and that its future achievements will be built on the foundations we lay today.

Early Intervention & Prevention Safety Education

The Safety Centre specialises in early intervention and prevention safety education. This work is designed to protect children, young people and adults across the Thames Valley and beyond. Empowering them with the tools and skills to make safe choices in everyday life and in emergency situations. Safety education is delivered into schools and at our immersive safety education centre Hazard Alley, based in Milton Keynes. Sessions delivered in primary and secondary schools focus on lifesaving topics, including knife crime, drug and alcohol safety and online safety across the South East and beyond.

Sarah Surridge, Marketing & Communications Manager said,

Support from the Thames Valley Business and Community Awards is an important step as we work to support even more young people with safety education throughout the region. No child will be left behind. Our safety education is there for everyone and we look forward to working with more schools across the Thames Valley to deliver lifesaving learning that supports the national curriculum.

Find Out More About How The Safety Centre Can Support You

We’re here to support schools keep children and young people safe. Call us today to speak about the safety education you’d like delivered into your school or to arrange a visit to our immersive education centre Hazard Alley.

To find out more about the Safety Centre visit www.safetycentre.co.uk call 01908 263009 or email bookings@safetycentre.co.uk to book your visit.

15/01/2024
Student Uses Life Saving Skills After Accident

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Teaching Safety Skills For Life

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We recently learnt about Adam’s story after his mum, Helen, got in touch with us. 14 year old Adam visited the Safety Centre when he was in KS 2 and has just started year 10 this September.

Helen told us how her mum was driving Adam and his younger sister in her car at the end of the summer holidays when they were in a car accident. Adam’s nan wasn’t able to get out of the car due to the impact of the accident.

Helen said

Adam remained calm, kept everyone else calm and called the emergency services. He said he knew exactly what to do from his trip to Hazard Alley all those years ago – so I wanted to say thank you to your team and to let you know the impact a visit to you has even years later.

My 12 year old daughter… didn’t know how to respond to the situation because she didn’t get a trip to Hazard Alley due to the pandemic.

Everyone was ok, a few bruises and shaken up. The car is not so good and will most likely be written off. Tell your team to keep doing what you do because it definitely has an impact.

Adam’s story highlights the long term impact of the safety education we deliver here at our education centre Hazard Alley and out into schools across the region. We know that learning through doing is the best way to absorb life skills so we know what to do when situations arise. Every time a visitor makes a practice 999 call at Hazard Alley they’re preparing themselves for real life situations when they urgently need help. As Helen said, giving the confidence to know what to do and how to get help.

Sarah Surridge, Marketing and Communications Manager at the Safety Centre said

Hearing Adam’s story reminds us of the importance of our work here at the Safety Centre charity. From visits to our education centre Hazard Alley to our sessions out in schools across the region there is so much to share with our young people about safety education that can help them in real life emergency situations and day to day life. We were pleased to learn that Adam’s visit gave him the skills and confidence to get the emergency help he needed after the car crash and that everyone was ok. If you’re reading this and think to yourself ‘my class needs this safety education’ please get in touch, we are here to help.

Book your next visit to our education centre Hazard Alley today by clicking here or invite our education team into your school to teach about a range of safety education topics by emailing educationteam@safetycentre.co.uk or calling 01908 263009.

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02/10/2023
Water Safety Added To National Curriculum

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Water Safety Added To National Curriculum

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Water safety education has been added into the national curriculum for primary students following the campaign of Beckie Ramsay whose son Dylan drowned from cold water shock in 2011

Beckie Ramsay whose son Dylan drowned aged 13 from cold water shock has called the national network of Safety Centres teaching about water safety ‘essential for all young people to visit.’ Dylan drowned at Hill Top Quarry in Whittle-le-Woods, near Chorley, after getting into difficulty in the water when he was swimming with friends. The Safety Centre Alliance, a network of safety education charities across the country teach children and young people how to stay safe in daily life- including around the water. Beckie has been campaigning since Dylan’s death 12 years ago for water safety to be included in the national curriculum which has now been updated to teach about the dangers of the water.

The Safety Centre Alliance was created to unite safety education charities across the country, delivering interactive, immersive safety education for children, young people and adults. The first charity was created in 1994 and the network inspires others from across the globe to spread safety education. Covering everyday safety topics from online safety, what to do in a house fire, crossing the road safely, water safety, how to call 999, first aid, the choices and consequences of knife crime, home safety, bullying and shoplifting and in car safety- visitors get safety skills that stay with them for life.

Beckie Ramsay, Dylan’s mum said

It’s truly amazing to finally see water safety being taken seriously over 12 years after losing my son Dylan to open water. As I’ve always said it is so important to learn about water safety, it’s as important as learning about the green cross code, stranger danger, fire and road safety. Learning could mean living! To know that many of these things and more are being taught under one roof at the Safety Centre and across the country through the Safety Centre Alliance is truly amazing. Had something like this been accessible to Dylan then just maybe my son would still be with us- about to celebrate his 26th birthday (17/10/2023) instead we will buy flowers and remember the good times. It’s essential for all young people to have this safety education.

Maya Joseph Hussain Chair of the Safety Centre Alliance and CEO of the Safety Centre based in Milton Keynes said

Beckie tragically has first-hand experience of what happens when our young people haven’t received key safety messages about the water. Cold water shock, rip tides and underwater currents are life threatening. The Safety Centre Alliance works tirelessly to ensure visitors to our education centres are aware of the dangers of the water all year round and what to do in an emergency.

Lives are being lost due to a lack of understanding about the dangers of the water- however beautiful the water looks- if you don’t have the knowledge about how to float, what to look out for or where its safe to swim, you could drown. The reality is specialist recovery teams are unlikely to make it in time if you get into difficulty in un-lifeguarded bodies of water before you drown. Others may enter the water to help you but they could drown too. We advise everyone to swim where there are lifeguards- at the beach or in the pool. No family wants to experience the horrific impact of losing a child like Beckie and the Alliance is doing all we can to stop this from happening.

Find out more about our work at our education centre Hazard Alley or speak to our friendly team on 01908 263009.

Dylan Ramsay- image shared with permission from Beckie Ramsay.

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29/09/2023
New Roadworks Safety Scenario Launched

This week is the official launch of our latest roadworks safety scenario at our education centre Hazard Alley. The scenario developed in partnership with Ringway– the highway maintenance strategic service partner for Milton Keynes City Council.

The new scenario gives visitors the opportunity to discover the potential dangers of roadworks: how to keep safe by understanding site hazards; and the importance of following site rules like designated pedestrian routes and safe crossing locations. It includes an interactive quiz and for a fully immersive experience visitors get to wear Personal Protective Equipment.

The Roadworks Safety Scenario launches this month to join our education centre’s lifesaving learning programme including first aid, safe places to cross, shoplifting and bullying, fire safety, home safety, the choices and consequences of knife crime, in car, cycling and railway safety as well as water safety. The education centre is designed for primary school children and young people to learn how to keep themselves and others safe in daily life.

Clive Rillstone, Ringway Regional Director said-

“Our team are passionate about raising the positive profile of the highways industry, particularly the safety of both road users and site staff, and we were excited to have the opportunity to develop the scenario at Hazard Alley. We feel that our scenario makes a perfect addition to the aims of the Safety Centre with reference to road works and safe crossing.”

Maya Joseph-Hussain CEO of the Safety Centre said

“We’re thrilled to be launching our new innovative roadwork safety scenario that has been developed in partnership with our supporters Ringway. The scenario adds value to our pioneering safety education centre Hazard Alley, where children, young people and adults across the region have the opportunity to learn lifesaving safety education in a safe, immersive way”.

With thousands of visitors per year visiting Hazard Alley, Ringway will continue to work with the team at the Safety Centre to ensure that this initiative is an effective way to understand site safety.

Schools and uniformed groups can see this new scenario by booking to visit Hazard Alley here. Sessions start at £7.50 + VAT per student. Book your session here today.

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13/06/2023
Volunteers Week

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Celebrating Our Volunteers This Volunteers Week

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Celebrating Our Volunteers

It’s Volunteers Week and we’re celebrating our volunteers and everything they do for us here at our education centre Hazard Alley to bring safety education to life!

2023 marks the 39th year of Volunteers’ Week and we’re joining thousands of charities and voluntary organisations recognising the contribution volunteers make across the UK. With this year’s theme of ‘Celebrate and Inspire’ we hope to encourage people to be the change that we want to see and get involved in volunteering in whatever way works for them. The contribution of volunteers is often unseen and unrecognised by many, visible only through the incredible impact of their volunteering, so taking the time during Volunteers’ Week to celebrate their efforts and all they contribute to our local communities, the voluntary sector and society as a whole has never been more important.

We’ve been speaking with our volunteers to find out more about why they volunteer with us and why it matters to them. Volunteers at the Safety Centre support our work by helping deliver our safety education tours in Hazard Alley as well as answering the telephone for our 999 emergency practice calls.

Meet Our Volunteer Johnathan

This is Johnathan, he’s our Volunteer Rep and he represents the volunteers here at the Safety Centre. He tells us a bit more about why he volunteers and what it means to him:

Tell us a bit about yourself:

My name is Jonathan Needham. I was born in the Midlands, moving to Milton Keynes in 1971. After leaving school I did an apprenticeship as an electrician for five years and then worked on the railway for 30 years in various roles before I retired. My interests outside of volunteering are fishing, playing outdoor bowls, pool and more recently gardening.

What brought you to The Safety Centre?

My youngest daughter sadly died suddenly in June 2014, I had already retired from work but my wife was still working. She wanted me to have something more to do during the day when a work colleague of hers who was already a volunteer at the Centre suggested I come and see if volunteering at the centre would be something I was interested in, especially with my knowledge of railway safety.

I was invited to do a tour and this really helped me decide to give volunteering at The safety Centre a try, the rest as they say is history!

How long have you been volunteering at The Safety Centre?

I started volunteering in November 2014 (eight and a half years now) and soon became the go to person for various DIY jobs with my friend Colin who has recently returned as a Telephone Guide.

What drew you to applying for the Volunteer Representative Role?

I feel I have now gained enough experience as a volunteer to be able to advise/mentor other guides and new volunteers. I am hoping that they feel they can approach me about any issues or concerns they have.
I also feel I can confidently help in promoting the good work The Safety centre does in various ways as required.

Do you feel volunteering at The Safety Centre is a rewarding experience?

I find my volunteering has become a rewarding experience. Each group I take round can have different challenges but seeing the looks on the faces of children as they go round the centre, telling you they have enjoyed one particular thing or the whole tour or that it’s the best trip ever is priceless.

Meet Our Volunteer Coordinator Tracy

Tracy manages our volunteers and ensures they have everything they need to help deliver our lifesaving learning here at our education centre Hazard Alley. She tells us about her role and why the volunteers are so special.

Tell us a bit about yourself

My name is Tracy and I am the Volunteer & Office Coordinator at The safety Centre (Hazard Alley). When I am not here I can usually be found either singing with my choir or in the stands of a football ground watching my son.

What is your Role?

My main role is to recruit, train and retain the Volunteers here at the safety Centre, but the role is so much more than that. The volunteers here are amazing! I get to spend time talking with them and generally just making sure they are alright. The volunteers love to come in early and sit and have a cuppa and a chat with each other and the camaraderie between them is lovely.

Do you feel volunteering at The Safety Centre is a rewarding experience?

Definitely, I have seen people flourish here at The Safety Centre. The confidence that it gives you and the interaction with the children is extremely rewarding. It also has a very social element to it where you can always find someone to talk to or ask advice from.

Anything else you would like to add?

Hazard Alley Volunteers are amazing last month alone they gave 286 hours of their time to help educate young people on keeping themselves safe. I am extremely fortunate to be able to come in everyday and spend my time with such inspirational and dedicated volunteers.

Find Out More About Volunteering

If you’d like to join our amazing team of volunteers we’d love to hear from you! Find out more here or email volunteerguides@safetycentre.co.uk or call 01908 714351.

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31/05/2023
The Big Help Out

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Volunteering At The Safety Centre For The Big Help Out Friday 19th May

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Our volunteers help save lives through learning. We’d love to hear from you if you’d like to join our amazing team delivering essential safety messages to children and young people across our region. Expenses paid, uniform provided, full training and most importantly you’ll be joining a community of fantastic volunteers. We’re hosting a volunteer drop in as part of The Big Help Out on Friday 19th May and we’d love to see you there. Contact us using the details below to book your space.

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12/05/2023
Tragic Death Highlights Need For Railway Safety Education

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Tragic Death Highlights Need For Railway Safety Education

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The tragic death of 16-year-old Jake Norman who recently died on the railway in Portsmouth highlights the need for the Safety Centre’s lifesaving railway safety education. Whilst the British Transport Police are still working to establish the circumstances of Jake’s death and why he was accessing the railway line, Jake’s family have said they would like to raise awareness of the dangers of the railway tracks through the tragic incident.

The Safety Centre is the world’s first safety education charity, teaching lifesaving learning to children, young people and adults to create safe, flourishing communities. The charity focuses on early intervention and prevention safety education, teaching the skills needed to be safe in daily life.

Maya Joseph-Hussain Chief Executive at the Safety Centre said,

‘We were saddened to hear of the tragic death of Jake Norman and our thoughts are with his family, friends and community at this difficult time. Jake’s death emphasises the importance of our railway safety education work here at the Safety Centre. Our immersive education centre Hazard Alley teaches visitors about the dangers you come across when using the railways and how you can use the railways safely. This education work is essential to keep our communities safe as they go about their daily life, today and in the future.’

The Safety Centre offers immersive education safety tours and classroom sessions at our education centre Hazard Alley in Kiln Farm, Milton Keynes, as well as outreach education in schools for students, teachers and parents. We provide high quality interactive, immersive, experiential, and memorable safety education and training to children, young people and adults across the region.

Established in 1992 and opened in 1994 the Safety Centre is the region’s leading and the world’s first interactive, immersive, and memorable safety education charity. Specialising in teaching children, young people and adults about how to stay safe, understand risks and avoid accidents using realistic learning experiences. As pioneers of invaluable immersive safety education, we are proud to have spearheaded the development of a UK wide network of safety centres. Our CEO is vice-chair of the National Alliance of Safety Centres.

To find out more about the Safety Centre visit www.safetycentre.co.uk call 01908 263009 or email bookings@safetycentre.co.uk to book your visit.

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02/05/2023
Continuing Knife Crime Education Vital For Safe Futures

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Continuing Knife Crime Education Vital For Safe Futures

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This month marks 30 years since the death of Stephen Lawrence who was murdered in a racist attack in London in 1993. In November 2022 Stephen Lawrence’s brother Dr Stuart Lawrence joined us at the Safety Centre to talk about the importance of our early intervention knife crime education programme to prevent future tragedies through learning. Our work here at the Safety Centre and across the region focuses on giving children, young people and adults the tools and knowledge to make safe choices and keep themselves, their communities and their futures’ safe. Our preventative education work helps build safe, flourishing communities today and tomorrow. However, this pioneering learning cannot carry on without the backing of funders and businesses to ensure the continued delivery of education sessions.

Dr Lawrence said during his speech at the Safety Centre

We never know when a young person we know or a young person someone else knows will be affected by knife crime. One fifth of all knife crime is committed between the ages of 11 and 17. That’s why early intervention is so important, if we can get out into our communities, speak to our young people and let them know the consequences of knife crime. Its not the consequences of today, not tomorrow, not a few weeks time but these things go on for years. (2023) will be 30 years since the death of Stephen and not a day goes past when I don’t think to myself (my son) is missing out on an uncle… on cousins that he could have had. And this is all through someone’s perception that the way to deal with things is through violence. We are only in control of ourselves, that’s all we can control. we can’t control anyone else, we can inform and we can try to educate, it comes down to each and every one of us making our own decisions, our own actions and holding ourselves responsible for them.

The Safety Centre’s Chief Executive Maya Joseph-Hussain said

In the past two years we’ve educated 14,500 9-11 year olds about the challenging topic of knife crime in an age appropriate, tailored way. We want to continue to empower more children and young people to make positive, safe choices and reduce the impact of crime and vulnerability. Collectively our research shows some young people say that they carry a knife for protection or to make them feel safer, even though they wouldn’t think of using it. However, research has shown that you’re actually more likely to become a victim of crime if you’re carrying a knife. The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice report, ‘Knife Crime Intervention – what works?’ said that current research suggests that education-based interventions hold the most promise for effectively addressing knife crime. Our early intervention education is the solution and we are here to help with prevention work at an early age to help young people make safe, lifesaving choices. Businesses and individuals can help us with funding to continue this pioneering work that will save lives.

To support the Safety Centre continue this essential knife crime education work you can donate here or reach out to our team to talk about how you can support the Safety Centre on 01908 263009.

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28/04/2023
Bookings Now Open For 23/24 Academic Year
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Hazard Alley Bookings Are Open For The 23/24 Academic Year

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We’re excited to share that our bookings calendar is now open for the 2032-2024 academic year!

Our bookings calendar is now open for the 2023-2024 academic year. You can now book your next school visit to our education centre Hazard Alley.

Book your next school trip today to secure your dates.

A visit to Hazard Alley provides students with life long learning through immersive education as students tour 11 purpose built safety scenarios. Each scenario is designed to educate visitors on current safety themes, in line with the PSHE curriculum helping students understand how to keep themselves and their communities safe every day.

Reasons To Visit Hazard Alley
- Tours are tailored to meet the needs of your students in an age appropriate, sensitive way for years 2-6.
- Content is immersive, engaging and memorable teaching safety messages to last a lifetime.
- Tour content covers essential PSHE curriculum helping students understand the choices they have and the consequences of their choices.
- The immersive safety education taught can be carried on back in the classroom, enhancing classroom based learning.
- We are Learning Outside The Classroom Quality Badge Holders, certificate number RIQB103556 demonstrating our commitment to excellent teaching outside the classroom.
- All risk assessments are in place to make your trip easy and safe. Safe carpark for students to disembark and return to their coaches.
- Easy access to the building for all with disabled ramps, toilets and lift.
- Close to the M1 for easy access across the region.
Did you know- we can also bring our safety education to you? Our qualified education team deliver outreach programmes into schools for children, teachers and parents on a range of safety topics. Sessions include The Choices and Consequences of Knife Crime, Drug and Alcohol Safety, Online Safety, Gas Safety and The Emergency Services.

Want To Find Out More?

Call us on 01908 263009 or email info@safetycentre.co.uk today, you can also fill out our booking form by clicking here we’d love to hear from you and get your next school trip booked in!

Thank you to King Productions Ltd for their support producing this film.

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09/03/2023
Safety Centre Meets HM King Charles

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Safety Centre Meets HM King Charles III

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The Safety Centre team was honoured to welcome HM King Charles to Milton Keynes this week when he joined local organisations at Christ The Cornerstone. HM King Charles spoke with our Chief Executive Maya Joseph-Hussain, our Chair of Trustees Catriona Morris and our volunteers Angie and Nick. They talked with the King about our work at the Safety Centre as the region’s leading and the world’s first safety education charity.

Maya Joseph-Hussain, Chief Executive of the Safety Centre said:

It was an honour to meet HM King Charles and welcome him to our hometown the city of Milton Keynes, alongside the amazing community organisations that make our city an exciting place to live, work and play. Thank you to Milton Keynes City Council for inviting us to join the community welcoming The King to MK. We are proud to share our city’s pioneering spirit, as the world’s first safety education charity and were thrilled to share our work helping to build safe, flourishing communities across our region with the King.

Volunteers Angie and Nick with our Chair of Trustees Catriona Morris and Chief Executive Maya Joseph-Hussain at The Church Of Christ The Cornerstone in central Milton Keynes.

Displays which were shown to The King during his visit to Milton Keynes explaining our work educating children, young people and adults about how to stay safe in their daily lives.

Displays shown to The King during his visit to Milton Keynes. Explaining our early intervention knife crime education work during the Knife Angel’s visit to our region, when we educated 3,500 9-12 year olds about the choices and consequences of being involved in knife crime.

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17/02/2023
Introducing Our Chair Of Trustees Catriona Morris

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We’re Celebrating Our Trustees and Introducing Our Chair, Catriona Morris

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Introducing Our Chair Of Trustees Catriona Morris

As we head into 2023 we’re highlighting the work of our amazing trustees who support our charity the Safety Centre, the world’s first and the region’s leading safety education charity. Catriona Morris is our Chair of Trustees. In her role Catriona leads the Board of Trustees and supports the running of the Safety Centre Charity. Catriona joined the board in 2017 after being introduced to our organisation through her role as a Milton Keynes councillor for Linford South and latterly Broughton Ward, when she was a member of the Buckinghamshire & Milton Keynes Fire Authority. She was also the Mayor of Milton Keynes in 2012. When she’s not at the Safety Centre Catriona is a magistrate and sits on the Buckinghamshire bench. She lives in Milton Keynes with her family.

Catriona shared:

When I was on the Fire Authority I learnt all about the Safety Centre and saw the value of early intervention education and I was enthused by that. I’m a parent to two children and wanted to do everything possible to give young people the tools to keep themselves safe. It’s vital that every child has the opportunity to learn lifesaving safety education and I wanted to be part of the organisation delivering it.

I love coming into the centre and hearing the excited voices in the building with children clearly learning by osmosis. Knowing that we’re teaching such valuable information that’s in depth and varied that supports the school curriculum and the ever-changing environments our young people live in is wonderful. For example, the recently developed knife crime choices and consequences education initiative. It’s great to be part of an organisation that’s ready and has the expertise to create education programmes and support children, young people and adults when new and emerging safety issues come up. Such as when the building site scenario was closed as safety around building sites improved across the country. We’re now moving onto the upcoming new scenario which will be launched next year around road safety when there are roadworks taking place, which we’re seeing a lot as our towns and cities grow. When we hear tragic news stories about children and young people having accidents on our roads it highlights how important our work is to teach children how to cross the road safely. This education is fundamental to society and everyone has something to learn when they visit the Safety Centre or use our outreach programmes, whatever their age we can help. We are the solution here. When the community has a problem they come to the Safety Centre for support. That’s why our amazing education teams, volunteers and partnerships are key, as they enable us to keep on top of pressing safety issues our wider communities face.

It’s important that we keep spreading the word about our work and role within the local community and wider region. Everyone who has been to the Safety Centre talks about it and it is now our role to reach out to people who haven’t heard about our work to see how we can support their needs. From school teachers, to Scout leaders, businesses and organisations we have safety education for everyone. Unfortunately, our work arises from tragedy as we develop scenarios to meet the needs of society. We continue to adapt and develop our offering as situations develop and will always be here for our communities.

Find Out More About The Safety Centre

If you’d like to find out more about our work call us on 01908 263009 or email info@safetycentre.co.uk.

Catriona pictured here (on the right) at our recent event with Dr Stuart Lawrence talking about the importance of early intervention knife crime education.

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30/12/2022
Safety Centre Talks About The Dangers Of Winter Weather

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Safety Centre Talks About The Dangers Of Winter Weather

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The Safety Centre charity is highlighting the dangers of winter weather as temperatures fall across the region. Following the tragic news earlier this week of four three young boys dying after falling through ice in Solihull, the charity is speaking about the daily dangers we face in colder weather.

The safety education charity based in Milton Keynes, focuses on teaching children, young people and adults how to stay safe in daily life situations. This includes staying safe during the winter months. Since it opened in 1994 the Safety Centre has educated over 400,000 children across the region. Children, young people and adults are taught safety education at Hazard Alley, the charity’s immersive, engaging scenario-based education centre as well as out in the community in schools across the region.

From being careful around bodies of water and not walking or skating on them, even when they appear to be frozen solid, to understanding it can take longer for vehicles to stop on icy roads there are lots of things to consider when the temperature drops.

Sarah Surridge, Marketing and Communications Manager said:

“The weather is beautiful at this time of year but also very unforgiving. It’s important that we take the time to think about the situations we may encounter and discuss the ways we can keep ourselves and our communities safe. Coming together for conversations about water safety particularly with children and young people, in the light of this week’s devastating news, can save a life. All bodies of water can be dangerous at any time of year but during the winter frozen water is particularly risky. We are all so sorry to hear of the loss of life this week and encourage parents and guardians to speak to children and young people about the dangers around bodies of water.”

The Safety Centre, based in Milton Keynes is open for visitors from schools as well as delivering education sessions into schools across the region for students, teachers and parents. To find out more about the world’s first safety education charity visit www.safetycentre.co.uk, call 01908 263009 or email info@safetycentre.co.uk.

There’s more information about water safety available here from our supporters The Parks Trust and Bucks Fire and Rescue.

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13/12/2022
Teaching Lifesaving Knife Crime Education This December With The Knife Angel

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Teaching Lifesaving Knife Crime Education With The Knife Angel

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December marks the arrival of the Knife Angel in Milton Keynes, created from 100,000 weapons seized by the police across the UK. During the month the Safety Centre will deliver life saving safety education to 1,500 Milton Keynes primary school students between 9-11 years old. Sessions focus on the dangers of carrying a knife, the life changing consequences of carrying and using a knife, the law around carrying a weapon or witnessing a knife attack and how to protect yourself, your future, your community and everyone around you.

Knife Crime Safety Education Programme

Our Choices and Consequences Knife Crime sessions are being delivered out into schools across the city of Milton Keynes as well as to students at the DONS Stadium, where the Knife Angel is situated between 1 December-8 January 2023. The sculpture created by the British Ironworks is positioned outside gate 1 at Stadium MK and at 27 foot high is a focal point of the Bletchley stadium precinct this December.

Today we delivered our first knife crime education sessions into schools in MK and students wrote messages of hope to be displayed at the Knife Angel all December.

The Knife Angel Arrives in MK

Welcomed into Milton Keynes by a police bikes and horse escort with police horses Loki and Victor, the statue arrived on a foggy Thursday afternoon. Our education team and CEO joined our partners Thames Valley Police, MK City Council, MK DONS SET and the press to talk about the importance of our life saving education, being delivered this December and beyond to primary and secondary students across our region.

Maya Joseph-Hussain Chief Executive of the Safety Centre said

“We’re here today to talk about the lifesaving learning programme we’re delivering, challenging misconceptions around knife crime and highlighting the life changing consequences it can have. I was humbled to meet and speak with Jason Fathers, father of Jay who tragically died as a result of a knife attack in 2o21. We spoke about the importance of knife crime education for young people across the country and the devastating impact of knife crime on families and communities. Our education programme delivered by our expert team, approaches the challenging topic of knife crime in an age appropriate, sensitive way. We will be delivering sessions across the month of action in December and across schools in Slough when the angel moves on in January.”

Find Out More

To find out more about how the Safety Centre team can support your school with knife crime education contact the education team on 01908 263009 or email educationteam@safetycentre.co.uk.

Maya Joseph-Hussain CEO of the Safety Centre, Jason Fathers, father of Jay Fathers, with his pledge, Euan Livingston Thames Valley Police Area Commander

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