Engagement and Communications
As a Violence Reduction Partnership (VRP), we work closely with our partners to understand the strengths, challenges and needs of all communities in Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and Southampton. We work with and for our communities, gaining insight and understanding to celebrate the strengths of our communities, and work with them to realise what needs to be done. We believe that working together to truly understand our communities will help determine how local investments should be made, which will keep people safer.
The VRU brings together VRP partners to collaborate with and listen to communities, we then cooperate with sharing information and co-produce our work. Together we want to celebrate what great communities we live in and challenge any narrative that may draw young people into exploitation and violence.
We work closely with the Youth Commission and their ‘big conversation’ to hear the voice of young people along side our VRP Serious Violence and Knife Crime Survey. If you work with children and young people and would like to support them to share their views by completing the survey please use the links below.
Please CLICK the documents below to view and download:
🗎 Serious Violence and Knife Crime SURVEY Communications Pack
🗎 VRP Serious Violence and Knife Crime Survey – Printable version
🗎 VRP Serious Violence and Knife Crime Survey – Online web version
🗎 VRP Serious Violence and Knife Crime Survey – Offline web version
The Engagement Working Group and Communications Working Group have been set up to ensure communities are consulted about what matters to them, can take part in finding solutions, and hear about what we are doing to reduce violence.
The VRU Communications and Engagement groups are represented by our key partners: HIOW Constabulary, Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service, Health, Justice, local authorities, education and Voluntary and Charity sectors. We feed our work into the Strategic Violence Reduction Partnership (SVRP) and submit reports about our work to the Home Office each quarter.
You can find the documents referenced on this page HERE