If you work at a licensed premises or run events of any kind, then accreditation may be for you. We also support a wider range of other public, private and community organisations to champion safety and tackle sexual violence.
Whether you have a specific project you’d like help with, 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.
I learnt a lot I didn’t know before. It felt empowering and useful and I think I’ll be able to effectively react to situations from now on.
Bar Staff, Headrow House, Leeds
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 gender-based violence happens. We negotiate a cost that works for you and sign an agreement to work together on this.
Training is what we’re known for. Our core staff skills session is Understanding and Responding to Sexual Harassment and Assault in Licensed Premises, and can be delivered on Zoom or on-site. It covers a range of key topics in a sensitive yet informal way, and 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 skills after just a single 2.5 hour session. Following the session we supply you with evaluation data compiled from your team’s feedback, meaning you will be able measure the positive changes with your team as you move forward.
Themes addressed include:
Each participant receives a personal Workers’ Guide and certificates to keep.
Accredited premises receive badges, window clings and a full-colour poster pack which are displayed in bathrooms and communal areas, as well as a certificate for behind the bar. Our logo and posters are internationally recognised and communicate a positive message that encourages reporting, letting customers know your staff are trained appropriately. This can be co-branded with your logos.
As well as being on hand to discuss your concerns around any incidents, we offer a quarterly check with advice and encouragement in for all our accredited premises. Our team can support you in improving your response to sexual violence in the long term. After your first year with us, optional 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 all parts of nightlife. Our training is now also 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. Premises we’ve worked with include Printworks, The Village Underground, The Brudenell Social Club, Leeds’ Headrow House, Ministry of Sound, The Brighton Dome and many 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?
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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 camping festivals to hardcore punk all-dayers, comic book festivals to white-water rafting.
Whether you’re making big moves internationally or building music community locally, we can find a way to help you out. Get in touch.
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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 many SUs across the country: from Salford to Swansea, UWE to UEA, Leicester to Lancaster, plus 20+ 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.
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We’ve delivered hundreds of funded accreditations and specialist training for licensed premises on behalf of the following local authorities:
and many others.
We’ll work with you to develop a reasonable quote based on your requirements.
We love helping people make sense of safety. If you’re working on something else and want an expert eye to look over your campaign or initiative, we can probably help!
From record labels to ticketing vendors, literary magazines to staffing agencies, we can develop and deliver bespoke workshops and facilitated spaces geared towards your ideal outcomes.
We’d love to help you prevent sexual violence, 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.
We love raising the bar when it comes to nightlife safety and work with a wide range of public, private and community organisations to deliver projects and partnerships.
We can support you through any project with a prevention or response focus, and provide accessible expert advice on design and programme delivery. We also work in partnership with other gendered violence organisations to deliver our accreditation programme.
Myth-busting Campaign
Active Bystander Campaign
Disability-led Charity
Here’s who we have accredited through our annual programme of specialist training, policy consultancy and ongoing advice and support.
This is is updated annually, get in touch via your GNO dashboard if you need to renew your accreditation!