Extended knife surrender arrangements 2025 (updated)

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

Extended knife surrender arrangements 2025

Details

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.   

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