Northumbria Coalition Against Crime is an independent registered charity which seeks to reduce crime and fear of crime and so improve the quality of life for those living and working in the North East through a working partnership between the community, public, private and voluntary sectors.

The Coalition was formed in 1990, to reduce crime and fear of crime for people living and working in the North East. We are a multi-agency partnership involving the community, the police, statutory and voluntary agencies, local authorities, business and commerce. We work throughout Northumberland and Tyne and Wear.

Our work is divided into two complimentary areas:

Our YOUTH PROGRAMMES promote young people as the solution, not the problem. We work towards long term change by challenging attitudes and behaviour, educating and supporting. Our Youth Programmes comprise the Odysseus Mentoring Project, Literacy and Numeracy training, the original Attitude to Rules project and Attitude to Rules Two.

The NORTH EAST RETAIL CRIME PARTNERSHIP (NERCP) works to deter prolific, persistent, professional shop thieves by intelligence led targeting. Together the Youth Team and the NERCP run the Retail Victim Initiative, based on the model of restorative justice, which puts young offenders in contact with proxy victims to examine the consequences of their actions.

Northumbria Coalition Against Crime, Northumbria Police HQ, Ponteland, Newcastle upon Tyne NE20 0BL
Telephone 01661 868 424, Fax 01661 868488, E-mail info@thecoalition.org.uk