Slideshow of the winners and runners-up:

The Fear and Fashion Awards are for outstanding examples of projects or casework that have proved successful in helping young people to stop carrying and using knives - for fear of attack or as a badge of belonging to a group or gang.

We received over 50 high-quality entries from a range of organisations.The awards were presented at the Lemos&Crane conference 'Helping Young People to Stop Carrying and Using Knives' on 1 October 2009.

You can read more about all the shortlisted entries here (PDF file).

Recre8 - Fear

Creative workshops focusing on the effects of knife crime on victims culminating in a theatre performance (Fear) alongside Birmingham Youth Offending Service.

198 Contemporary Arts and Learning - Different Endz

A peer to peer media campaign produced by young people to promote messages aimed at preventing the use of guns, knives and involvement in gang culture.

Leap Confronting Conflict - Fear and Fashion Project

Developing effective ways of transforming young people at risk of weapon carrying into community leaders.

Liverpool Housing Trust - Jigsaw Youth Squad Project

The 'Learning Lessons from the Past' initiative helps young people to reframe their context for violence by learning lessons from world atrocities, including visiting the Holocaust Centre and Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Football Foundation - Kickz Cup 2009

A partnership between Kickz and the Home Office’s anti-knife crime campaign ‘It Doesn’t Have To Happen’ reaching over 1,300 young people.

Redthread Youth Ltd - Kings Emergency Adolescent Room

An innovative multi-disciplinary project providing a gateway enabling vulnerable young people who have experienced violence to access a wider range of services.