Open Conversation: Student Safety In Our Venues

In October we announced a range of measures to help protect you from drink spiking within our venues. Since then, we’ve been working with our partners to develop a plan of action to tackle this pernicious crime and now want you to come on board and help shape our anti-spiking strategy.

This is an opportunity to come down and have an honest discussion about safety on campus and within our venues and the action you want to see taken. We’ll provide some free refreshments and then post-event a working group will come together, including students, to progress the initiatives discussed.

Our goal is that this working group will give us a long-term platform to keep pushing the conversation around spiking, ensuring that perpetrators know that what they are doing is wrong and a crime, developing our processes and procedures so our venues are as safe as possible, and ensuring we make it as easy as possible to report incidents.

For more information on how we're trying to mitigate risks and improve safety outside our venues, please read our Spiking Next Steps article published in December.