Venue Safety
Safe Place Pledge
Designed by the Consent Coalition and Its In Nottingham, the Safe Place Pledge marks a venue as having taken 8 key actions to ensure women are safe to enjoy a great night out wherever they go. Where you see the pledge advertised, you can have confident that the venue has at least two champions for women’s safety, as well as staff who are trained to respond and intervene when women feel unsafe. All reports of sexual harassment, violence or intimidation will be taken seriously and there will be space for staff to offer support if anyone does not feel safe.
You can find out more about the Safe Space Pledge on safespacenotts.com
Ask for Angela
Ask for Angela is a nationally recognised scheme for customers to discreetly alert a venue that they feel unsafe and to ask for assistance, by simply walking up to the bar and asking for ‘Angela’.
Whilst there is no formal accreditation for venues, many will have posters advertising the scheme in bathrooms or throughout the venues, and it is commonplace across the city and at all of our partner venues.
We also have available some mock ‘credit cards’ which you can keep in your wallet or phone case to ask for assistance where you may not be able to verbally Ask for Angela, such as in a loud or smaller venue.
Drop your Vice-President Liberation and Welfare, Alice Eley, an email to ask if you can pick one up from the office, or look out for them in the community cabinets near toilets in the Portland BuildingARE THESE STILL A THING AT NTSU?]
Best Bar None
89 venues of all types have been accredited with Best Bar None, which is a Home Office-backed initiative designed to reward venues that put safety, customer care, and community at the heart of what they do, improving standards in the evening and night-time economy.
Nottingham has one of the largest Best Bar None schemes in the country, and in 2025 Rock City and NTSU’s The Level were among the award winners as best in category.