SWaN Safety For Women At Night

SWaN - Safety of Women At Night

A partnership led by the University of Exeter has been awarded funding to tackle crimes against women at night, following a successful bid to the Home Office’s Safety of Women at Night Fund.
The partnership will allocate the funds to bolster women’s safety while using the city centre, particularly at night, and also implement new ways to ensure their safe passage home.


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Our free eCourse is now available, click on the link to discover information and resources. Our eCourse covers information from Michael Conroy Men At Work CIC. Men At Work trains professionals who work with boys and young men to facilitate constructive dialogues with them about safety, empathy and respect – for themselves, for their male peers and for women and girls. Michael created the 10 Dialogues and offers training.

Karen Ingala Smith Counting Dead Women In the first three days of 2012, 8 women in the UK were killed through men’s violence. Three days, 8 dead women: 3 shot, 1 stabbed, 1 stabbed and beaten so hard with her own walking stick that the wood splintered, 1 beaten, 1 strangled, and 1 smothered. Since then, Karen has been keeping a record of the women in the UK who have been killed through men’s violence and has personally recorded the names of 1,366 women killed by men or, in cases where criminal justice process hasn’t been concluded or has been prevented, for example if the killer also killed himself, where a man is or was the principal suspect.

Professor Jane Monkton Smith from the University of Gloucestershire Domestic homicide is a pandemic so pervasive that the soaring figures cause weary resignation rather than alarm. For 30 years, Professor Jane Monckton-Smith has been fighting to change this. A former police officer and internationally renowned professor of public protection, she lectures on sexualised and fatal violence; works with families bereaved through homicide; and trains police and other professionals on how to best handle cases involving coercive control, domestic abuse and stalking. Killers do not snap and lose control.

Prof Jane Monkton Smith's ground breaking research led to the creation of the eight-stage homicide timeline, laying out identifiable stages in which coercive relationships can escalate to murder and revolutionising our understanding of them. Her book is available to purchase on Amazon.

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Partnership work 

• Training and development packages on how to deal with and tackle incidents of such harassment for professionals in the night-time economy including bar staff, door staff and taxi drivers;
• Creation of a Women and Girls Safety Charter for Exeter;
• Re-establishment of the ‘Best Bar None’ scheme to promote the responsible management and operation of alcohol licensed premises;
• Installation of signage under CCTV cameras around the city centre with unique codes which allow callers direct access to the CCTV control room
• Train the trainer sessions for women, delivered by community interest company More Positive Me, to help women feel safer when using the city centre at night;
• Safety advice for teenage women aged 16-18, to raise awareness on the issues faced by girls in the nighttime economy, such as sexual exploitation, drug and alcohol misuse, violence, harassment;
• A public awareness campaign about the scheme, under the umbrella title of Safer Central Exeter.
The project will run alongside and complement the work of Safer Central Exeter.

We worked with women who feel strongly about making a difference to their community, they helped develop and are now delivering a courses to their peers and contacts to improve the safety for women at night.   

We have 2 'Train the Trainer' SWaN ambassadors, Ella & Amy, who can deliver a full days training to become a SWaN Ambassador.
 We also have 16 SWaN Ambassadors so far, able to deliver a 2/2.5hour session to all genders about the safety of women at night.       

Become a SWaN Ambassador and be able to deliver this course to your peers and contacts.    
Make a difference to your community.   
Empower people to be game changers. 

Book your training session or find out more  by emailing  swan@morepositiveme.co.uk


Michael Conroy

Men At Wok CIC

We worked with Michael Conroy to look at holding discussions with all genders about violence against women & girls.

Michael Conroy speaking about Violence Against Women
Men At Work CIC
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