Women's safety

Will we ever be able to truly escape the danger of being spiked? The normalisation of being spiked, or knowing someone who has, is alarming, especially with the move from drinks being spiked, to our bodies being injected with illegal unknown substances. How can one possibly escape a small...

Sophie Bryer Content Warning: reference to domestic abuse Over a month ago I had the pleasure of interviewing JUNO Women’s Aid, a Nottingham City and South Nottinghamshire based charity that offers “support services for survivors of domestic abuse”. A huge thank you goes to JUNO Women’s Aid for this opportunity...

Isabelle Kennedy-Grimes One year on from the spiking ‘pandemic’, students of Nottingham have been spurred to assess the progress (or lack thereof) demonstrated by club and bar-owners in their efforts to prevent and sufficiently handle cases of spiking. Isabelle Kennedy-Grimes delves into the effectiveness of current club and bar...

Hannah Bentley Nottinghamshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner and the Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales celebrate the launch of a major campaign to protect women and girls in Nottingham. Impact’s Hannah Bentley reports on the efforts to make the night-time economy safer.   The event, hosted by The...

On Saturday, I took to the streets of Nottingham with hundreds of other women and girls in order to ‘Reclaim The Night’. Together we pounded the pavement. Together we shouted, chanted, whistled, screamed, and laughed. There were glow sticks and drums, fairy lights and blowhorns. In other words: we...

On the evening of November 27th, hundreds of women took to the streets of Nottingham to 'Reclaim the Night', the city’s biggest annual grassroots protest against male violence towards women, including physical, which 1 in 3 women will experience in a lifetime, as well as verbal. Abi Kara-Fernandes reports...

Hannah Penny Starting university involves different sorts of worries for all students. However, for non-male students, the typical fears of finding your way around, making new friends and keeping up with all your lectures are usurped by a greater fear. The very real fear of men. Hannah Penny assesses...