Let’s change the party to change the world!

Good Night Out believes nights out should be about fun and freedom, not fear.

Our mission is to create safer, more accountable nightlife, music, arts and cultural communities. 

We educate and support people and places to help them better understand, respond to and prevent sexual violence and all forms of harm.

We’re working for a world where young people’s first nights out are exciting, not frightening. Our vision is a flourishing creative and cultural universe where the highest standards of safety and skilled support are embedded across every space and context, powered by careful, collaborative people serving diverse, dynamic communities.

It’s time for safer nightlife.

From the pub to the street to the bus to our homes, sexual harassment is everywhere. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Good Night Out began in 2014, initially as a campaign of anti harassment movement Hollaback London, when we helped London’s iconic fabric to create the first ever nightclub anti-sexual harassment policy. The demand for change was immediate, and over ten years we’ve created an accreditation programme to help organisations, venues and everyone who cares about safety to drive change in what they do.

 

So, what is accreditation?

Estella explains it all via a breezy Q&A with our sentient neon friend, answering all those burning questions about our holistic approach to safer nightlife in this short video.

Policy
We start with a chat and an agreement on how we’ll work together. You’ll receive a tailored best practice policy outlining what to do—and avoid—when harm occurs, aligned with legal and licensing requirements. We support you in adapting and implementing it.

Training
We offer flexible training options, including on-site, Zoom, and eLearning. Accreditation requires most of your team to complete GNO training. Our core session—Understanding and Responding to Sexual Harassment and Assault in Licensed Premises—boosts confidence and skills in just 2.5 hours. Post-training evaluation data helps you track impact.

Communication
Our internationally recognised logo encourages reporting. You’ll get a range of materials—posters, badges, barmats, window clings, and certificates—for display throughout your venue or event to show your commitment.

Ongoing Support
We provide quarterly check-ins and ongoing expert support. After year one, you can access discounted refresher training and reaccreditation.

Questions? Get in touch!

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As well as our core accreditation and training programmes, we help local authorities develop sexual violence prevention and response campaigns, and partner with frontline specialist support services internationally.

We have developed and delivered training programmes and Women’s Safety Charters for councils across England and Wales, and designed impactful public-realm campaigns seen by thousands of eyes, like #ReframeTheNight and #SafetoSay. We also write expert guidance and policy for organisations. Read the toolkit we wrote for London City Hall’s Night Czar here.

We are a member of the End Violence Against Women Coalition.

More about our public campaigns

Why get accredited?

Accreditation is the best way to make sure you have a plan in place for safety via a simple four-step process we guide you though: policy review, staff training, access to the best materials and ongoing tailored check-ins and support.

To get started, select an option below to make contact and tell us more about you.

  • Are you a Licensed Premises?

    Training up bar staff is where we began and remains at the heart of what we do.

  • Are you an Event Organiser?

    We help event organisers with procedure, posters and preparation for their events, and we are sliding scale to make sure our work is equally accessible grassroots DIY promoters and international festivals.

  • Are you a Students' Union?

    We’ve worked with Students’ Unions since our inception and know the specifics of supporting student safety agenda on campuses, the priorities of your commercial services team, and making all this work with university disciplinary procedures.

  • Are you a Local Authority?

    We work with councils across England and Wales who purchase our training and accreditation work for premises in their area. Working in close partnership across VAWG services, community safety and licensing, we can help embed your local safety priorities on your busiest local venues.

  • Are you an Arts & Culture space?

    Many of our favourite bars are located inside cinemas, galleries theatres and cultural centres. As more and more arts spaces extend their licenses later and continue to diversify, we help them plan for safety in the office, the gallery and the bar!

Chances are your audience already care about safety, but campaigns on sensitive topics need expert help. We’re here to help you set the tone and get your organisation active for gender justice.

We know what works when it comes to safety campaigns, and are dedicated to making change that lasts. Our work is delivered in partnership with a diverse range of public sector and charitable organisations who share our goals of helping women and LGTBQI+ people to live safe in public space.

We measure our reach in many ways, from public conversations to the change we bring to both individual participants and the industries and communities we educate. Here’s how…

Read more about our impact

Good Night Out Campaign is a non-profit organisation, and we are always looking for support to sustain our mission.

Change belongs to all of us
People are responsible for their own actions;
and the cultures we create are the context 

We amplify grassroots excellence
We use community wisdom to power systemic change

Everyone deserves access to support and care
We imagine justice within and beyond existing systems

Harm reduction saves lives
We reject stigma and meet the people where they are

Trans and non-binary people deserve dignity
Self-determination matters, now more than ever

Safer nightlife means safer workplaces
Rights and protections for all includes migrant and sex workers

 

Our core team, trainers, and board members live our values.

We are a community interest company with a flat structure and a commitment to upholding our values in all we do.

Core Team

Trainers

Board

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Doesn’t having posters up about sexual harassment just make people think it’s not a safe place?

Actually, research demonstrates that safety planning is a normal part of nights out for women and LGBTQ+ people. The feedback we receive suggests that rather than causing fear, our posters which let customers know they will be supported in the event of harassment feel reassuring, not scary. Sexual harassment happens everywhere and is a universal social problem that no venue is totally immune from. Proactive messaging acknowledges that the premises will act appropriately if it does crop up.

Is this the same as Ask for Angela?

No. Ask for Angela is a ‘codeword’-based poster developed in 2016 by Hayley Child, the Substance Misuse Strategy Coordinator for Lincolnshire County Council. While we support venues taking any proactive steps in this area, staff training and a clear policy on what to do in the event of a disclosure is required to build a consistent response to perpetrators of unacceptable behaviour. Good Night Out Campaign Accreditation can complement other schemes premises may already be using and we are happy to advise on how to build on your current in-house approach.

We’d like to send two members of staff to a training session so we can get accredited, how do we do this?

Good Night Out Campaign accreditation is based on ensuring that a reasonable proportion of your frontline bar and floor staff have received face-to-face training from our specialist facilitators. This is to ensure you’re able to offer the best possible response to a report of harassment. We have found that it’s both risky and an unfair level of responsibility to only have one member of staff trained up. If you would like to find out more but are not ready for accreditation, we can offer a place on a Multi-Venue Manager Awareness workshop, which looks at the broader principles of nightlife safety and can be a great first step. These are usually funded by your local council, BID or Pubwatch. Get in touch to find out more.

We’re a small venue. Can we team up with neighbouring premises and get accredited at once?

This is possible. We love small venues and can offer you a discount if you team up with others! However for the same reasons above, we can only offer this for up to three small premises at once and will assess your team’s sizes first.

I’m in a band or DJ and I want to support your work, what can I do?

Great. If you’re going on tour we can give you a supporters’ pack of badges and active bystander flyers to display at your merch desk. Why not ask for a ‘Respect Rider?’ We can show you how to incorporate safer nightlife requirements like gender neutral-bathrooms (or GNO accreditation at every tour stop!) to your rider, and help artists and agents develop contract wording for this. Let’s talk!

I don’t run a premises but I work in nightlife or events in another capacity, how else can I get involved?

That’s great! Email us. We offer lots of different types of support, consultation, policy writing and advice for all kinds of people and organisations. You might also like to check out our support page, as we’re always very grateful for fundraisers!

I don’t work in the evening and night time economy but what you do sounds really relevant to my field.

We’re connected to many other specialist sexual harassment and assault training organisations and consultants who do this type of work, why don’t you drop us a line with your needs and see if we can help.