Humberside Police Lifestyle

Need our help?
Menu

Challenges

Safer Roads Challenge

Your team could help make your local roads safer by completing challenges set by Safer Roads Humber.  You could focus on local driver, pedestrians or cyclists in your area.

Your team could:

  • Raise awareness of the speed of traffic in your local area
  • Explain the importance of being ‘be bright be seen’ when using two wheels or wearing a helmet
  • Explain why wearing a seat belt and using a car seat (if applicable) is important
  • Encourage friends to put away their phone whilst crossing the road, or remind drivers or cyclists to not use their phones whilst travelling
  • Raise awareness of the rules around using an e-bike or e-scooter
  • Help young drivers with road safety messages to keep themselves and their friends safe

You could create posters or leaflets, hold an information session at a local community hub, or create social media posts or videos.

Safer Roads Humber will help with your challenge by offering £10 to the first 10 teams that sign up for their challenge.  They can also provide specialist help and advice to make your project a success and even road safety equipment like Hi-Viz tabards and speed boards!

Sustainability Challenge

By working together, we can all contribute toward real improvements to our environment now and for future generations.

Tidying it: Can you tidy a place where people dump rubbish? Is there somewhere you know that is overgrown and neglected that can be cleaned up? Are there any footpaths, which are neglected and in need of repair?

Recycling it: Recycle aluminium drink cans, newspapers, clothes, bottles etc. Can your team organise collection points to recycle all these items and more? Set up a re-use scheme or swap shop for unwanted household items. Use non-recyclable waste materials in an arts and crafts display or create bird feeders and mini greenhouses from cartons and bottles.

Developing it: Plant some shrubs and bulbs along verges or in a local amenity area. Design and construct a wildlife area in your community to attract insects, birds and other wildlife. Create a nature walk with animals, wildlife and plants to spot in your community. 

Campaign: launch awareness campaigns on environmental issues, e.g. ban plastics, don’t waste water, encourage litter-picking or energy saving ideas. Design environmental education packs for younger children in your community.  Create social media posts and videos to promote your campaign.

Remember to ask permission before starting any work on someone else’s land. You could also ask the local garden centre if they have any spare plants that you can use.

Crime Reduction Challenge

Team up with your friends for a crime-busting challenge to make your community safer.

You and your friends can make a real difference in reducing crime by coming up with creative ideas and solutions as part of your Crime Reduction Challenge.

Ideas:

  • Find out about crimes in your area and how to prevent them by producing a crime survey
  • Produce a newsletter or social media post or video giving crime prevention advice
  • Set up a ‘Lifestyle Youth Crime Prevention Panel’ giving crime prevention advice to other young people on issues such as:
  • Internet safety
  • Protecting your mobile phone or bike and what to do if it is stolen
  • Anti-Social Behaviour
  • Stranger danger
  • Create an Anti Bullying Campaign.

Contact your local Crime Prevention Officer or your local Neighbourhood Policing Team for help.

Life Unlimited –Physical Health Challenge

Help your community keep healthy and feel good with the Life Unlimited Challenge.  Your teams could:

  • Organise a healthy fun day with sports tournaments and races
  • Set up a Lifestyle sports club, e.g. football, basketball or tennis club
  • Organise a keep-fit day and show people in your community how they can keep fit and healthy. You could hand out a newsletter to give them exercise ideas, or create a community social media post
  • Raise funds by doing a sponsored dance-a-thon or cycle ride to improve a local park or sports facility, or to pay for a community group to go ice skating or swimming
  • Create a family treasure hunt around your local area to encourage families to get outside together and cover some distance hunting for clues

Community Crusader Challenge

Are you a computer whizz or super creative? Be a Crusader in your neighbourhood and make it a better place to live.

You can make a real difference to your community by campaigning for change through creative projects using social media, videos or art.

You could:

  • Raise money for a local charity, community group or location
  • Bring the community together with a creative event that everyone can take part in
  • Raise awareness about an important issue e.g. mental health, the dangers of vaping, keeping safe online or a local issue
  • Create helpful guides to improve people’s lives e.g. life hacks
  • Launch a newsletter to share with your community about local events and news

Remember to stay safe on the internet, do not share your personal information and do not use social media if you are under 13 years old.

Mini Police Legacy Challenge

Have you taken part in the Mini Police Project?  If so, why don’t you create your very own Mini Police Legacy Challenge for Lifestyle 2025.

You can create your challenge by using one or more of the 7 lessons you learnt during your project. Here is a recap of these lessons:

  • Anti-Bullying: What is bullying? What bullying online looks like.
  • ASB: What is Anti-Social Behaviour? Types of ASB includes, vandalism, graffiti, begging.
  • Celebrating Diversity: What are the likes & dislikes of girls & boys. What is prejudice?
  • Crime Prevention: Going out on foot patrol to look for positives & negatives at local properties.
  • Crime Scene: How evidence is gathered at a crime scene.
  • Online Safety: How to protect yourself online.
  • Road Safety: To know the risks of not wearing seatbelts, speeding, or using mobile phones when driving.
  • Safer Strangers: What are strangers? What do they look like? What is a safe stranger?
  • School Parking: Parking outside the school gates. Dangers of arriving & leaving school.
  • Social Responsibility: Dangers of drinking and taking drugs. Beer goggle exercise.

Ideas you could use for your Mini Police Legacy Challenge:

  • Raise awareness of Anti-Bullying by doing a sponsored walk or dance-athon!
  • Perhaps, you could help your school by creating a campaign to ask people to park safely when collecting pupils from your school.
  • How about creating posters and leaflets to share your knowledge about crime prevention by posting them in your neighbourhood.
  • Create a campaign to help your friends to stay safe online.
  • You may choose to celebrate diversity by teaching friends, family, and the community the importance of diversity via a play, performance, or a story.
  • If you can’t decide what your favourite lesson was, why not create a campaign based on a as many as you like. 

Can I take part in the Mini Police Legacy?

  • You or some of your team members must have taken part in the Mini Police Project at your school.
  • You will need an Adult Advisor i.e. parent or guardian to oversee your project.
  • All the Mini Police in your class can take part or just some of you.

   Things to think about:

  • Consider safety when undertaking your project, especially near roads.
  • When designing posters/flyers try to go paperless and utilise online/social media methods.
  • Use recycled items when creating your projects.