Crucial Crew 2025

Norfolk Crucial Crew is a multi-agency project, led by Norfolk Fire & Rescue Service, engaging with year 6 students across the county, delivering safety messages in a fun and interactive way through hazards presented in a safe controlled environment. This free programme involves the Fire Service working alongside partners including Norfolk Constabulary, NHS, Road Safety, HM Coast Guard East Anglia Air Ambulance.

Crucial Crew has four broad aims:

Encourage responsible/effective action in children.

Sensitise children to emergency and/or dangerous situations.

Develop Social Awareness and care for the social environment and others.

Raise awareness of the consequences of offending behaviour.

The overall aim is to help children stay safe and learn valuable life skills. Young people are one of our best communication tools for spreading safety messages in, sharing them with family, friends, carers and the wider community.

On arrival at Letton Hall, children are divided into groups and escorted from room to room around the site, where they are educated by the different partners in the challenges that face them when moving to junior school in the coming year. They will experience and participate in a range of realistic situations which are potentially life threatening to raise their awareness of what they can do to increase their iwn and others' safety.

Volunteers are needed to escort the groups safely around the site, and this is where rotarians are involved. At the recent event at Letton Hall, 8 volunteers were needed. Watton Rotary have supported Crucial Crew for a number of years, as we appreciate the valuable work done to prepare children for the next stage of their lives.