If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Sarah Walker, Charter Project Manager, at sarah.walker@saferbusiness.org.uk.
CHARTER CHAMPIONS
Are your champion contact details up to date, or is there anyone else you wish to add to the champion details to receive our support, information and event communications…… Please email sarah.walker@saferbusiness,org.uk with any changes and updates.
GET INVOLVED
📅Early Bird Save the Date!
Women’s Night Safety Charter Summit 2026
🗓 Thursday, 26 January 2026
📍 Details to be announced in the coming months.
Join us as we continue the important work of making London safer and more inclusive for all women both during the day and at night.
Training & Learning Opportunities
The Suzy Lamplugh Trust have teamed up with L’Oréal Paris to offer their free 30-minute training session on Bystander Intervention to anyone who wishes to attend. In partnership with L’Oréal
Paris and Right To Be, the Trust are delivering the globally approved ‘Stand Up Against Street Harassment’ 5D methodology to audiences across the UK, which enables anyone who witnesses some form of harassment to support the victim or intervene if needed
📅 16 April 2025 – Mitie Safer Communities
Speaker: Paul Furnell (Mitie)
Discover Mitie’s vision for Safer Communities and how organisations can work collectively to drive real change.
🔗 Register on Eventbrite
📅 14 May 2025 – Equal Measures
Speaker: Vicky Ilankovan
Equal Measures is the UK’s leading non-profit dedicated to delivering intersectional diversity, from bar to boardroom, in the drinks and hospitality industries.
📅 17 June 2025 – Anti Stigma Network
Speaker: Karen Biggs
Anti Stigma Network aims to help coordinate and amplify the huge variety of existing anti-stigma work across the UK. Enabling us all to maximise our shared effort to take action to end stigma.
🔗 Register on Eventbrite
📅 10 July 2025 – Cheeky Charging
Speakers: Cam Young & Edmund Ashton
Enhancing nighttime safety & Safe Havens by supporting individuals who may have become vulnerable due to no battery charge on their phone, promote positive customer interactions, and elevate the overall satisfaction of those who choose to spend their evenings at your venue.
🔗 Register on Eventbrite
📅 14 August 2025 – Unite the Union
Speaker: Irina Do Carmo
Our members from across the hospitality and passenger transport sectors, working with our equalities sector, are calling for immediate changes to protect women workers. They’ve come up with a plan to deliver real change Get me home safely
🔗 Register on Eventbrite
Download the Safer Business Network Training Brochure
At Safer Business Network, we empower businesses with practical training to create safer communities.
Inside the brochure:
✔️ Tailored training programmes on vulnerability, anti-social behaviour, and workplace safety
✔️ Expert-led sessions with practical skills your team can use immediately
✔️ Custom training solutions for your business or local area
✔️ Flexible eLearning so your team can train at their own pace
Download the brochure here
🎉 Exclusive Offer for Women’s Night Safety Charter Signatories!
We’re pleased to offer all Charter signatories 50% off our eLearning courses with the discount code: WNSC50
💻 This offer applies only to eLearning and does not include in-person or virtual training sessions.
Take advantage of this opportunity to upskill and support safer nights for everyone.
🎉Exclusive offer for SIA Personal License holders
If you hold a valid SIA personal Licences, we have teamed up with the SIA to offer FREE WAVE eLearning by clicking this link. https://sia-wave.highfieldelearning.com/
Important Reminders for Implementing or Enhancing Ask for Angela
If you are considering implementing or have already introduced the Ask for Angela initiative in your venue, here are some key points to ensure its effectiveness:
✅ Staff Training:
- Ensure all staff are trained in WAVE (Welfare & Vulnerability Engagement) and Ask for Angela.
- It’s highly beneficial to include this training as part of your staff induction programme.
🔁 Refresher Training:
- Conduct refresher training annually for all staff to maintain awareness and reinforce best practices.
🎥 Free Vulnerability Awareness Video:
- Download our free vulnerability awareness video here. It’s a useful tool to remind staff about the Ask for Angela campaign and its importance.
🎓 E-Learning Opportunity:
- Interested in further enhancing staff knowledge? We offer a discounted rate for WAVE & Ask for Angela e-learning training to all Charter signatories. Code: WNSC50
Stay proactive in creating a safer environment—training and awareness make a real difference!
Spotlight on Signatories
UniteVerse is a cutting-edge platform that promotes diversity, accessibility, safety, mental health, and neurodiversity.
In the fast-paced world of hospitality and nightlife, staying ahead isn’t just about the latest drink trend or playlist – it’s about understanding the consumer better than ever before. And today,
data is the key that unlocks that understanding. Smart operators are realising that when you really listen to your audience – through real-time insights and actionable feedback – you don’t
just improve the customer experience. You build trust, save time, create safer spaces, and ultimately boost your bottom line.
At the heart of this movement is UniteVerse, a powerful new platform that’s helping venues across the UK and beyond turn information into impact. With a dual approach – an engaging app for consumers and a data-rich SaaS tool for venues – UniteVerse is helping hospitality businesses create environments that are safer, inclusive, responsive, and primed for success.
A New Era of Inclusivity and Safety
The venues of tomorrow aren’t just inclusive by accident – they’re inclusive by design. UniteVerse helps venues create spaces that are accessible to everyone, regardless of ability, identity, or background. This goes beyond the optics of diversity – it’s about genuinely enhancing the customer journey and creating welcoming environments that people want to return to.
From accessibility options to safety features and mental health awareness, UniteVerse’s tools support a cultural shift in the hospitality industry – one where community, well-being, and belonging.
For more information please visit: https://uniteverse.app/ or contact hello@uniteverse.app
Raising Standards in Behavioural Detection to Make the Night-Time Economy Safer for Women
At Barham Protection Services, we believe that women should feel safe and be safe when enjoying a night out, with extensive policing backgrounds, we have seen first-hand the devastating impact of violence against women and girls (VAWG).
We recognised a serious gap in the security industry, a lack of accredited training to properly identify and stop predatory behaviour before it escalates. While many security teams rely on traditional security measures, the ability to detect and disrupt offenders before they act is a skill that must be learned.
We have worked with Highfield Awarding Body of Compliance and launched the first Level 2 Behavioural Detection Awareness (BDA) Accreditation to raise standards across the security and manned guarding and night-time economy industries.
Behavioural detection is not just situational awareness, it is a proactive, proven method for identifying individuals with harmful intent before they act. It enables security and licensed premises professionals to spot subtle behaviours and early warning signs that indicate predatory behaviour, criminal intent, or potential threats to public safety.
Our fight against VAWG goes beyond training, it is at the heart of everything we do, which is why we have developed a dedicated VAWG training package and embedded it in both of our BDA and BDO courses. This training transforms them into a proactive force for prevention, ensuring that dangerous individuals are identified and stopped before they have the chance to target women.
Ensuring that every professional operating in night-time economy has the knowledge, skills and confidence to spot, intervene and prevent harm to women and girls.
🎉Exclusive offer for Signatories
QuoteWNSC2025 for 10% off Behavioural Detection Training
🛜 Training – Barham Protection Services
Stay Connected
Got questions? Need support? Want to get more involved – Share information on the Spotlight for Signatories?
Contact Sarah Walker at sarah.walker@saferbusiness.org.uk
Thank you for being part of the Women’s Night Safety Charter
and working towards a safer London for all!
