Safer Spaces Now CIC

This bank holiday weekend was slightly different to my normal ones as I was volunteering with the Safer Spaces Now CIC tent at Love Saves the Day Festival in #Bristol Safer Spaces is a community interest company that was set up to help educate and create a culture that confronts and prevents sexual violence, harassment and domestic abuse at festivals and events. The tents are set up as a welcoming safe space where people can come and hang out, use facilities and escape to some calmness and also provide a safe space for people to report incidents and get the professional support they need. Not only are there the tents we also go out as teams to educate and engage with the festival goers with the message to not be a bystander, to de-stigmatise talking about and reporting sexual violence. This weekend certainly made me wish there were safe spaces like this when I was a younger keen festival goer, it really is essential in providing a safer environment to make everyone’s festival experience a more enjoyable one. If anyone has any questions about Safer Spaces or maybe even feels like this is something they would like to get involved in please feel free to reach out to me. #Bristol #LSTD #LoveSavesTheDay #Festival #Summer #Volunteer

What an excellent offer creating safe spaces at festivals and events, offering supportive conversation to women/girls who may need to use the provision and also providing education and training to influence culture change https://lnkd.in/eZHwDY3C Safer Spaces Now CIC

Thrilled to share my experience attending a transformative training run by Safer Spaces Now CIC, facilitated by Alliance Management Group . The session was not only insightful but also incredibly engaging, leaving me equipped with valuable tools and knowledge. I was particularly impressed by the dedication and passion of the Safer Spaces Now team, whose work is truly commendable in ensuring safety at events of all kinds. Their expertise is unmatched, making them a go-to resource for anyone involved in event planning or management. I highly encourage reaching out to Safer Spaces Now for their expertise and support in creating safer environments for all event attendees. Let's collaborate towards fostering inclusive and secure spaces for all! A special thanks and shoutout to the team at Alliance for extending the invite to me and for continuing to be the most progressive organisation in the industry (in my humble opinion). #EventSafety #SaferSpacesNow

Our wider Management Team at Alliance Events had a brilliant training session with Safer Spaces Now CIC yesterday. The session was hugely beneficial and has educated our teams on sexual violence, harassment & domestic abuse at events. The session has also equipped our teams with the knowledge and skills to manage signs of abuse, how to escalate issues and identifying customers who need support. Alliance would strongly recommend Safer Spaces Now CIC training sessions to security teams across the events sector to ensure festivals and events are safe places for all

The SEC Group Easter Bake Sale was not only a delightful gathering of colleagues and a showcase of our baking talents but also a significant success for the chosen Charity Safer Spaces Now CIC 💗🐥 Together, we raised £126 for Safer Spaces, a remarkable community interest company dedicated to combating sexual violence, harassment, and domestic abuse at festivals and events. #Easter #BakeSale #SaferSpaces #Fundraising

A recent study of 4,500 Swedish twins found that girls with autism from ages 9 to 18 years were THREE times as likely to experience sexual assault when compared to their neurotypical counterparts. [1] Studies also suggest that NINE out of ten autistic women have been victims of sexual violence. [2] Additionally: ❗ Just 3% of sexual abuses involving people with developmental disabilities are ever reported. ❗Approximately 80% of women and 30% of men with developmental disabilities have been sexually assaulted – half of these women have been assaulted more than TEN times.[3] ❗A 2012 report by the National Council on Disability in the United States found that people with disabilities, including those with IDD, experience sexual assault at a rate SEVEN times higher than people without disabilities. ❗Among women with intellectual disabilities the rate increases to about TWELVE times the rate of women without intellectual disabilities. It frustrates me that for all the awareness out there about autism and disabilities, the "dark stuff" doesn't get talked about. Why? I mean, my life expectancy, being autistic, is 16 years shorter than the average human. The suicide rate in our communities is outrageous. I am more likely to be incarcerated, unemployed, impoverished, isolated, assaulted, taken advantage of...I could go on and on! And this is coming from a straight white guy. As March is Developmental Disabilities Month, and as Autism Awareness Month approaches, I hope we talk about more than just how "awesome" autism is, and that we should all have disability pride. 1 Childhood neurodevelopmental disorders and risk of coercive sexual victimization in childhood and adolescence – a population-based prospective twin study 2 Evidence That Nine Autistic Women Out of Ten Have Been Victims of Sexual Violence 3 People with Disabilities and Sexual Assault – Weiss #autism #disabilities #developmentaldisabilities #autismawareness