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Do I need to book in advance?
You can buy tickets on the door, but we recommend booking online to guarantee your tickets!
Kids under 12 FREE?
One free child ticket with every paying adult ticket, any additional children are charged at £5.00
Entrance Pricing:
Day Pass – £14
Parking – £4
Opening Times?
Tues – Fri: 9:30am-4pm
Sat: 9am-4pm
Do we need to book for the Cafe?
No need to book! Please note we kindly request no picnics on site, as we rely on our café sales to help maintain our wonderful sculpture park.
Do you allow dogs?
Yes, in all outdoor spaces and outdoor café area!
In another bid to raise awareness for knife crime in the UK, the British Ironworks Centre is smelting weaponry taken off the streets to be repurposed into motivational goods to inspire today’s youth.
With help from our friends at West Mercia Police Force, as well as other civic and law enforcement agencies, we have collected a huge amount of weaponry that has been taken off our British streets for good.
Here at the British Ironwork Centre, we hugely applaud all 43 police constabularies across England and Wales, who in November 2023, worked so tirelessly on a one-month initiative that saw 13,272 knives removed from our streets. We understand just how devastating the effects of increased knife crime is on our community, and as seen with our revered Knife Angel sculpture, we are passionate about raising awareness for this mighty cause.
What we plan to do is more than just removing knives off the street, we want to turn this into an opportunity to create something for the community, to inspire young people to take control of their own futures.
Idea One:
We have a vision to smelt down these weapons of violence, and transform them into tools of strength and growth. By creating strong barbells, we can give young people an opportunity to channel their energy into healthier avenues.
We are removing their capacity for inflicting harm by turning them into a symbol of power and self-development.
Idea Two:
We were inspired with the idea that the smelted weapons should become a pull up bar, as these are tools we can use to better ourselves, and take care of our body and mind.
With pull up bars, we use our own strength and determination to lift ourselves up. It’s never easy at first, but we get better and stronger the more we do it. This is exactly the message we want for our young ones.
Idea Three:
We want to let young people know that we understand the difficulty in speaking out and choosing our own path, which is why we want to recognise and award youths that challenge the use of violence, and present them with an impactful trophy, created from smelted weapons.
The idea we had for these trophies depicts a youth with wings carrying another youth, lifting them out of despair or following the wrong path, and helping them see that there is always another way forward, and they are never alone.
Idea Four:
Our fourth idea involves smelting down weapons and turning them into pavement plaques, a whole leisure trail of them placed through towns and cities. This provides an interactive and educational experience for families and communities.
The more we can educate our youth on the devastating effects of knife crime, hopefully the brighter their futures will be.
