Young people urged to make good choices this Halloween & Bonfire Night

Fearless, the youth service of Crimestoppers is running a campaign to keep teenagers across Scotland safe and to encourage them to make positive choices this autumn. 

Focusing on Halloween and Bonfire Night, we are encouraging young people to remember that ‘communities work best when they work together’ and that they have an important role to play in that. 
 
Designed in partnership with young people at Craigroyston Community High School in Edinburgh, the campaign is running across Snapchat, Instagram and TikTok – all key social media platforms most commonly used by young people.
 
The initiative aims to get young people thinking about not just the impact fireworks misuse and deliberate fire-raising has on the communities they live in, but how they can take positive action. This may include attending their local youth centres to do activities, volunteering or donating food or clothes they’ve outgrown to help others in their area.

We are urging young people to not feel forced into silence for fear of stigma or reprisal, but to speak up with information about fireworks misuse, deliberate fire-raising and other crimes happening in their local area at fearless.org.  

This dedicated website is for young people to pass on information 100% anonymously – this means that their IP address won’t be tracked and nobody will ever know the information came from them. By taking a positive decision that will never lead back to them, they are making their community safer for everyone.

 Find out more about Fearless.

24 October 2024