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Guidance

Extended knife surrender arrangements 2025

Information on how to surrender ninja swords, knives and other offensive weapons.

Updates to this page

From:
Home Office
Published:
25 June 2025
Last updated:
8 April 2026
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  1. Updated the 'Surrender bins' section to explain the role of Word 4 Weapons.

  2. Update on scheme added.

  3. List of surrender bins updated.

  4. Address of mobile surrender van location in Barnet updated.

  5. Amended the address for the mobile surrender van in annex A for Enfield. Also added new locations in annex B for Barnet and Enfield.

  6. Updated the location of the mobile surrender van for Newham on 18 July 2025.

  7. Added an accessible version.

  8. First published.

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This scheme ran between 1 July 2025 and 31 July 2025.

The government provided extended knife surrender arrangements in the West Midlands, Greater Manchester and London. These arrangements operated at the same time as the ninja sword surrender and compensation scheme.

These arrangements allowed members of the public to surrender weapons anonymously at a mobile surrender van operated by FazAmnesty and in 37 new surrender bins installed by Word 4 Weapons with Home Office funding. No compensation is payable under such arrangements. The total number of surrendered weapons under the extended arrangements are set out below.   

Total surrendered weapons
Mobile surrender van 783
Surrender bins 2,787

Note: count carried out on all surrender bins between 27 August and 3 September 2025.

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