Due to COVID-19, Good Night Out has postponed all face-to-face training to help us stay as safe as possible. We’re dreaming about being back on the dance floor with you soon <3
In the meantime we’re proud to present Good Night In, a new series of free online workshops and skill shares.
Good Night Out Campaign is on a mission for safer nightlife. We believe nights out should be about fun and freedom, not fear.
We help nightlife spaces and organisations to better understand, respond to, and prevent sexual harassment and assault, through specialist training, policy support and an accreditation programme. Let’s change the party to change the world.
We’re creating safer music, culture and nightlife spaces.
From the pub to the street to the bus to our homes, sexual harassment is everywhere. We build workplace and community capacity to respond to and prevent all gender-based harms, because we know it doesn’t have to be this way.
Good Night Out began in 2014, initially as a campaign of Hollaback London. We helped London’s iconic fabric to create the first ever nightclub anti-sexual harassment policy and never looked back. We help licensed spaces to upskill their teams and deliver specialist, interactive workshops to bar staff, managers, and security.
We help local authorities to develop sexual violence prevention and response campaigns, and partner with frontline support services around the UK and beyond. In London we developed and delivered Women’s Safety Charters for Southwark and Greenwich councils, and Hackney’s mythbusting #ReframeTheNight campaign, seen on billboards across the borough. We wrote the #OktoAsk bystander toolkit for Drinkaware and act as specialist consultants for London City Hall’s Night Czar. Read our toolkit here.
Good Night Out Campaign CIC is a member of the End Violence Against Women Coalition.
You sign an initial one year agreement to receive on site training for staff, display our posters and adopt or adapt our best practice policy. You will stay in touch with a supportive GNO team member to help you publicise and uphold your standards. To get started, select an option below to make contact and tell us more about you.
Whether you’re a large nightclub or a small wine bar, a cafe or a local pub, if you’re keen to raise your team’s confidence and skills and make sure your premises feels as welcoming and safe as possible, we would love to work with you.
Read more, book now!We’ve worked with Students’ Unions since our inception and know the specifics of supporting student safety agenda on campuses, the priorities of your commercial services team, and making all this work with university disciplinary procedures.
Read more, book now!We help event organisers with procedure, posters and preparation for their events, and we are sliding scale to make sure our work equally accessible grassroots DIY promoters and international corporations.
Read more, book now!The landscape for safety at festivals presents a unique challenge. We can develop and support your safety planning in the run up to your event, and train staff. Get in touch.
Read more, book now!There are so many ways to support Good Night Out
Whether you’d like to collaborate on some content, put on a fundraising gig, screening, event or have us come and speak at your event, get in touch with us via our Contact page.
Find out more about our accreditation programme and book in a chat with our Training Programmes Coordinator.
Get AccreditedWould you like a supporter’s pack of badges and flyers to share in your local music or nightlife community? Drop us a line and we’ll send you some!
Get In TouchWe are a dedicated bunch of musicians, facilitators, designers and sexual violence specialists, sometimes all at once! Meet the team:
We are a registered community interest company with a flat structure and a commitment to upholding the principles of gender justice in all that we do. Pop by for a coffee if you’re ever in Peckham.
Managing Director
GNO co-founder Bryony has more than a decade of experience in sexual violence prevention education, designing and delivering training and interventions for movements, organisations and industries. For fun she writes about women in music, collects old punk records, plays guitar, drums and sings (not simultaneously).
Training Programmes Coordinator
Jess has been training and running workshops for a decade, first through peer youth education on consent, drugs and mental health, through to running anti-racism and anti-arms trade campaigns. She is passionate about life long learning and loves reading speculative fiction by queer and PoC writers.
Communications & Partnerships
Kai works closely with organisations that support Deaf and Disabled access to music spaces as well as LGBTQ+ people. Collaboration and learning from other radical organisations and groups is central to the way she works. Kai is also a children’s football coach, and musician.
Data & Design
Patrick has been combining a self-deprecating love of spreadsheets and an aesthetic zeal within homegrown organisations for some time now. He is also a web and book designer, bandmate and has an excessive DVD collection.
Angelica is a freelance writer, trainer and facilitator. She enjoys reading and writing about feminist movements around the world. In her spare time she likes to play sports and listen to music.
Jen Calleja is a GNO trainer and former Director and press spokesperson for the campaign. Jen focusses on training event and festival organisers in the UK literary scene. Outside of GNO, Jen is a freelance fiction writer and literary translator.
Katie is a Sex and Relationships trainer, facilitator and educator. She currently works at a Rape Crisis Centre delivering sexual violence prevention workshops to young people and youth professionals. She lets out her rage through roller derby and switches off in front of reality TV marathons!
Kezia is an experienced youth worker with a background in informal education and training. She currently runs UpRising’s Environmental Leadership Programme, is a facilitator at the feminist charity Fearless Futures, and delivers workshops with Jewish Women’s Aid on safer dating and healthy relationships.
Molly has a practice-based background having worked in sexual violence support for many years. She loves to think about imaginations, and currently exists as an activist/writer/facilitator specialising in creative transformative approaches to trauma and justice.
Nadia is a trainer, facilitator and musician. As a community organiser and activist, they specialise in anti-oppressive political organising and activist trainings. They also work as a sound designer and make music under Sad Queers Club with bands including Screaming Toenail, Brown Belt and Rebecka Reinhard.
Activist, Facilitator, Journalist, Filmmaker, and shameless East 17 fanboy. Richie exists in a world which explores constructed gender hierarchies, contemporary masculinity and sex-positivity. He can occasionally be found on a stage at open mic nights spinning stories about pomegranates or Jurassic Park.
Trainee Psychotherapist, Sexual Violence Trainer and Facilitator, Mother, Wife, Crossfitter and Seeker of Intrigue.
Operations Manager
Alice has worked in the night-time industries for over 20 years. She is a women’s support worker and advocate with strong beliefs about society’s injustices and a huge desire to make the world a better place, as well as a musician, artist, allotment gardener and mother of two
Senior Philanthropy & Fundraising Advisor
Emily advises non-profits on their strategies, and philanthropists on their giving. Emily and her wife both work in the impact world, and try to do whatever they can to leave the world better than they found it, focussing on social justice and equality.
Musician & Music Coach
Estella Adeyeri is a performing musician and multi-instrumentalist. She plays in black feminist punk band Big Joanie, and in the anarcho-pop punk outfit Charmpit. She is a music coach at Girls Rock London, a project that seeks to empower women, trans* and/or gender non-conforming folks to play instruments and enter the music industry.
Digital Communications Strategist
Fran has a background in digital communications and campaigns at non profit organisations, working on human rights and the environment. She is also a dedicated activist and has been involved in grassroots intersectional feminist movements as well as groups fighting climate change.
Representation and Policy Officer
Katie is a Bristolian feminist and anti-racist activist who’s been involved with GNO since 2016. She currently works as the Representation and Policy officer at Nottingham Women’s Centre, amplifying women’s voices in order to influence decision makers. Previously she’s worked as a campaigner, trainer and consultant.
Ethical Supply Chain Consultant
Laura has worked for a number of years to support the UK government & large multi-nationals to eradicate slavery & human trafficking from their supply chains and ensure fair treatment of all people within the workplace. She also runs KNM, a feminist organisation increasing well-being & positivity for its readers through self care, ethical fashion and empowerment.
Campaigns Manager
Rebecca has worked within the Violence Against Women & Girls sector for 10 years, and her life has been defined by sisterhood and feminism. Her idea of a good night out includes lots of red wine and live music but she is most often found at home in South East London watching TV and doting on her very old and infirm cat.
Trainer & Facilitator for Social Action
Tamara-Jade is a trainer, facilitator and illustrator whose work centres social action. She has a background working in gendered violence prevention from a Black Feminist perspective. She is passionate about facilitating conversations that reflect on group culture.
Actually, research demonstrates that safety planning is a normal part of nights out for women and LGBTQ+ people. The feedback we receive suggests that rather than causing fear, our posters which let customers know they will be supported in the event of harassment feel reassuring, not scary. Sexual harassment happens everywhere and is a universal social problem that no venue is totally immune from. Proactive messaging acknowledges that the premises will act appropriately if it does crop up.
No. Ask for Angela is a ‘codeword’-based poster developed in 2016 by Hayley Child, the Substance Misuse Strategy Coordinator for Lincolnshire County Council. While we support venues taking any proactive steps in this area, staff training and a clear policy on what to do in the event of a disclosure is required to build a consistent response to perpetrators of unacceptable behaviour. Good Night Out Campaign Accreditation can complement other schemes premises may already be using and we are happy to advise on how to build on your current in-house approach.
Good Night Out Campaign accreditation is based on ensuring that a reasonable proportion of your frontline bar and floor staff have received face-to-face training from our specialist facilitators. This is to ensure you’re able to offer the best possible response to a report of harassment. We have found that it’s both risky and an unfair level of responsibility to only have one member of staff trained up. If you would like to find out more but are not ready for accreditation, we can offer a place on a Multi-Venue Manager Awareness workshop, which looks at the broader principles of nightlife safety and can be a great first step. These are usually funded by your local council, BID or Pubwatch. Get in touch to find out more.
This is possible. We love small venues and can offer you a discount if you team up with others! However for the same reasons above, we can only offer this for up to three small premises at once and will assess your team’s sizes first.
Great. If you’re going on tour we can give you a supporters’ pack of badges and active bystander flyers to display at your merch desk. Why not ask for a ‘Respect Rider?’ We can show you how to incorporate safer nightlife requirements like gender neutral-bathrooms (or GNO accreditation at every tour stop!) to your rider, and help artists and agents develop contract wording for this. Let’s talk!
That’s great! Email us. We offer lots of different types of support, consultation, policy writing and advice for all kinds of people and organisations. You might also like to check out our support page, as we’re always very grateful for fundraisers!
We’re connected to many other specialist sexual harassment and assault training organisations and consultants who do this type of work, why don’t you drop us a line with your needs and see if we can help.
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