Our Mission
Established in 2019 and funded by the Home Office, the West Midlands Violence Reduction Partnership (VRP) collaborates across the public, private, voluntary and community sector to tackle the root causes of violence affecting children and young people. Our priorities are:
- Preventing violence from happening
- Working with communities and young people to reduce violence
- Building local and regional partnership to enhance efforts to tackle violence
- Using social media for good and support young people to lead the way in reducing violence across the region
- Developing violence prevention initiatives in education


Preventing and Reducing Violence
WM VRP lead on and support work across the region to reduce violence. We fund a range of activity and services to provide children, young people and families access to high quality, evidence-based interventions
Explore our work and resources – making a difference locally and regionally

Hear it for yourself, from our community
Read real stories from our community, the children and young people that we’ve helped across the West Midlands.