Norfolk Crucial Crew

Crucial Crew is a multi-agency education project, led by Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service.

Crucial Crew events

With various partners we engage with Year 6 students across the county delivering safety messages in a fun and interactive way through hazards presented in a safe environment.

Our 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. They can share them with family, friends, carers, and the wider community and take forward these life skills into the future.

We will be delivering eight Crucial Crew events in Norfolk over the academic school year 25/26

Event dates for 25/26

Gresham's - 21-23 October 2025
The Place, Marketplace, Great Yarmouth: 25-27 November 2025
The Nest, Norwich: 1-3, 5, 8-9 December 2025
Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse: 13-15 January 2026
Bowthorpe Training and development centre: 20-22 January 2026
Letton Hall: 9-12 March 2026
Kings Lynn Fire Station: 27 April - 1 May 2026
City College Norwich: 13-17 July 2026

Invites are sent out annually at the end of the academic year. If your school hasn't received an invite, please contact us at [email protected].

If you are a home educated family and would like to be involved in one of our specific Home educated community Crucial Crew sessions, please email [email protected] to be added to our HE mailing list.

Learn about other fire safety education in schools.

Education resources from services and organisations to help us stay safe

UK Power Networks

How do you stay safe around electricity?

St John Ambulance

Learn how to respond in a medical emergency

HM Coastguard

Stay safe on beaches, cliffs and coastal paths

The RNLI

Know and stay safe in the sea

Norfolk Police Safer Schools

Learn the risks so that you can stay safe

Cadent UK

Gas can be dangerous, especially in the home

Royal Life Saving Society

The Water Safety Toolkit

See more (Go to Education resources from services and organisations to help us stay safe)

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You should only call 999 in an emergency. Our emergency services work hard to help people who are facing very difficult circumstances, so you should only call when there is a real emergency and you or someone you know needs help.