We need your support to survive the pandemic! Club GNO is a new way to be part of safer nightlife. For £5 or more a month, members receive free access to specialist skills workshops, toolkits, exclusive merch and a growing community.
If you work at or own a premises or produce events of any kind, then accreditation may be for you. We also work with a wider range of public, private and community organisations to champion nightlife safety.
Whether you have a specific project you’d like help with, or need a plan to raise awareness on this issue, we can support you with training design and delivery, policy and messaging.
Read more about our projects and partnerships below.
Accreditation is a simple way to get on top of this issue and ensure your space, event or team has a plan in place
First we have a chat about your needs, providing a best practice policy document and procedure in line with licensing objectives and legal frameworks. It lays out what to do and say (and what not to say or do!) when sexual harassment or assault happens. We agree costs and sign an agreement, valid for one year, to commit to working together on this.
Our core training session is 2.5hrs long, currently delivered via Zoom for up to 20 participants: Understanding and Responding to Sexual Harassment and Assault in Licensed Premises. It covers a range of key topics in a sensitive yet informal way. It is delivered by two specialist trained facilitators who can support anyone who may be impacted by the content.
Our training is proven to increase confidence, knowledge and team skills. We evaluate this and pass on the results to you so you can measure the change in your team.
Themes addressed include:
Each participant receives a personal Workers’ Guide, badge and certificates to keep
Accredited premises receive a full-colour poster pack which are displayed in bathrooms and communal areas, and a certificate for behind the bar. Our posters communicate a positive message that encourages reporting, letting customers know your staff are trained appropriately. This can be co-branded with your logos.
We offer a quarterly check with advice and encouragement in for all our accredited premises. Our team can help you to debrief after a difficult incident and support you in improving your response to sexual violence in the longer term. After your first year with us, reaccreditation and refresher training is offered on a discounted basis.
Our work and the reasons why it’s necessary are featured in a short BBC documentary on Inside Out London as they joined us as we delivered a training session with nightlife venue staff.
The documentary examines the rise of reports of sexual harassment in London with insight into what could be done shared by our Managing Director, Bryony Beynon.
Yes! We customise our accreditation and training so it’s relevant for the part of the nightlife world. Our training is now is available via Zoom.
Working with licensed premises of all sizes and shapes is where we began and remains at the heart of what we do. We try our best to make what we do affordable for you and can also help you to ask your local authority to fund your accreditation.
Previous premises we’ve worked with include fabric, The Village Underground, The Brudenell Social Club, Leeds’ Headrow House, Ministry of Sound, The Brighton Dome and a wide range of Wetherspoons, Fullers and Stonegate pubs.
A 2020 evaluation of our work found that 97.8% of participants felt that the training had improved their knowledge on how to respond to sexual violence in nightlife. Sound good?
We’ll work with you to develop a reasonable quote based on who you are and what you need.
We’ve worked closely with Students’ Unions since our inception and know how to balance the student safety agenda and the priorities of your commercial services team while and working within university disciplinary procedures.
We have worked with so many SUs across the country: from Salford to Swansea, UWE to UEA, Leicester to Lancaster, plus eighteen London universities from Queen Mary to Kings’ College. Elected officers endorse our community-based approach to culture change.
Our training was developed in collaboration with the NUS and is endorsed at a national level. We would to support your work on campus! Get in touch.
We’ll work with you to develop a reasonable quote based on who you are and what you need.
Whether you’re a larger scale tour promoter or a grassroots gig organiser, we want to help you create the safest and most liberating events possible! We’ve been putting on events and festivals for years ourselves and can provide accessible and low cost support with this.
We have supported event organisers and promoters of nearly every kind, from the literary talks of the White Review to hardcore punk festival Static Shock Weekend. We’ve accredited major Leeds indie bookers Superfriendz and dance music agency AnjunaBeats.
Whether you’re making big moves internationally or building music community locally, we can find a way to help you out. Be in touch.
We’ll work with you to develop a reasonable quote based on who you are and what you need.
Camping and site-based festivals present unique challenges to safety and accountability.
We’ve worked with Laneway Festival to train staff across seven cities in Australia, Malaysia and New Zealand, undertaking a full policy review and helped to launch a text hotline for alerting security which has been hugely successful. We’ve trained and accredited Hyperlocal, who run twin experimental music events in London and Buenos Aires.
We are now working closely with an experienced consultant to develop meaningful and scalable solutions for the specific challenges of non venue-based festivals, which we hope to launch later this year. Please get in touch for a chat.
We’ll work with you to develop a reasonable quote based on who you are and what you need.
We love creating bespoke policies, workshops and other interventions that work for you. From record labels to ticketing vendors, literary magazines to staffing agencies, we love helping people making sense of safety.
We have an extensive network of freelance trainers including many with specialist experience educating children and young people about sexual violence and consent, so if you’re looking for someone to write, design or facilitate a one-off workshop, we may be able to help.
We’re also interested in working more with bands, artists and DJs. Could we provide merch table goodies for a tour or help you create a Respect Rider? We’d love to help you address safety, whatever your context. Hit us up for an initial chat.
We’ll work with you to develop a reasonable quote based on who you are and what you need.
Here’s a list of all the venues, pubs, clubs, festivals, event organisers and promoters across the UK (and further afield!) that we have trained and accredited.
If you see your place of work on this list but received training longer than a year ago, it’s time to refresh your knowledge and receive discounted re-accreditation and training. Check in with us to get new poster packs, staff materials and on-site or online refresher training.
