Co-op and Steel Warriors open new outdoor gym made from recycled knives in drive to reduce knife crime

Anti-knife crime organisation, Steel Warriors launches its newest outdoor gym made from recycled knives in Ruskin Park, Lambeth built in partnership with community retailer, Co-op. The new gym is the first of a 20-gym plan Co-op has committed to build by partnering with Steel Warriors, the charity which launched in 2017 by taking seized and surrendered knives off the streets of London and melting them down to build its inaugural calisthenics gym in Tower Hamlets. The gym is supported by the Co-op which has warned that the increasing lack of…

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The Co-op and Steel Warriors pledge to boost community health and wellbeing with an ambitious plan to build 20 street gyms.

The Co-op has announced a multi-million-pound investment to support anti-knife crime organisation, Steel Warriors to create free community gyms in areas impacted by knife crime. The new community spaces are made using steel from knives that have been taken off the street, melted down and recycled. The Co-op aim to help Steel Warriors build 20 open air free-to-use gyms across the UK. Two new gyms will be built this year, which will also feature gym instructors, providing training sessions for different abilities, to share skills and improve physical and mental…

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