There's never been a more important time for the #SaferParks: #StandUpAgainstStreetHarassment campaign to help make parks safer for everyone 🌳💚
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Find out how you can get involved 👇
🌳 While the official #SaferParks: #StandUpAgainstStreetHarassment campaign comes to a close today, our work continues because everyone deserves to feel safe, welcome and respected in our parks. 💚
The #SaferParks: Stand Up Against Street Harassment campaign wraps up today — but the work continues!
Everyone deserves to feel safe & respected in our parks. Register for bystander training today: shorturl.at/OlxK6 💚
Support the #StandUpAgainstStreetHarassment campaign to create #SaferParks.
💡Learn the 5Ds to intervene safely
✅Get free active bystander training
🚩Display eye-catching posters
⬇️Download Safer Parks guidance
📣Lets StandUp together
🔗 Visit campaign at: shorturl.at/AP3uK
🧑💻Sign up to the training here 👉 www.suzylamplugh.org/pages/events...
Learn more about #StandUpAgainstHarassment here 👇
www.greenflagaward.org/safer-parks-...
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👏 Endorsed by #PoliceCrimePreventionInitiatives, the 2nd edition of the #SaferParks guidance was launched at the #NationalProblemSolvingConference
🎥 Michael Brooke reflects on the vital link between crime prevention and safe park design and calls for the guidance to be used to make a difference.
Ever seen harassment in a park and didn’t know what to do?
💡Learn the 5Ds to intervene safely: Distract, Delegate, Document, Delay, Direct.
✅Free bystander training: shorturl.at/TVJbF
🔗Visit #SaferParks campaign: www.greenflagaward.org/safer-parks-...
Support the #StandUpAgainstStreetHarassment campaign to create #SaferParks
💡 Learn the 5Ds to intervene safely
✅ Get free active bystander training
🚩 Display eye-catching posters
⬇️ Download Safer Parks guidance
📣 Let's StandUp together
🔗 Visit campaign at: www.greenflagaward.org/safer-parks-...
Positive quotes from participants who have taken the training, saying how it has increased their confidence and understanding of safe ways to intervene.
🌳 Volunteers from #FriendsofParks groups already do so much to keep our green spaces thriving — and you can help make them safer too.
💬 Training gave people confidence and simple, safe ways to step in.
🙌 94% left confident and empowered
👉 Our free bystander training is for everyone ⬇️
#SaferParks
80% of UK women have experienced harassment, yet 75% say no one stepped in.
Our #SaferParks campaign highlights the prevalence of street harassment in parks, encouraging staff, volunteers and the public to help us create more welcoming green spaces.
For folks who work in park design and management, some wonderful guidance on how to ensure they’re as safe as possible for women and girls.
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🌳 Do you know what makes a park feel safe, welcoming and inclusive?
For the #SaferParks campaign, we are spotlighting parks guidance explains why features such as lighting, layout, accessibility, location and the presence of authority figures are key to ensuring everyone enjoys our green spaces.
Use the campaign hashtags #SaferParks and #StandUpAgainstStreetHarassment on social media to amplify the message and encourage others to get involved.
By working together, we can ensure that our green spaces are safe and welcoming for everyone.
News just in! @keepbritaintidy.bsky.social and the Green Flag Award are working with the @universityofleeds.bsky.social and the Suzy Lamplugh Trust to support a new campaign: #SaferParks - #StandUpAgainstStreetHarassment
Park staff play a vital role in making green spaces feel safer. The #SaferParks campaign provides:
✅ Free bystander training for parks teams
✅ Posters & resources for your sites
✅ Guidance on safety & inclusion
Get these resources here
Excited to see this timely and much-needed #SaferParks project come to fruition!
It's been such a privilege to do some pro bono work translating the materials into Arabic for this excellent initiative to make parks safer spaces for women and girls 💚
The training is based on the 5Ds of bystander intervention, designed to promote safety and not escalate the situation:
🗣️ Distract
🧑🤝🧑 Delegate
📱 Document
💙 Delay
✋ Direct
More here 👇
bit.ly/4ntiTtg
#saferparks #StandUpAgainstStreetHarassment
Would you know how to intervene if you saw someone being harassed in public? @annabarker.bsky.social, @suzylamplughtrust.bsky.social & @keepbritaintidy.bsky.social have developed 'active bystander' training to make parks safer, more inclusive spaces 🌳
#saferparks #StandUpAgainstStreetHarassment
Our @annabarker.bsky.social is driving forward a major #SaferParks: #StandUpAgainstStreetHarassment campaign in partnership with @suzylamplughtrust.bsky.social, @keepbritaintidy.bsky.social and Green Flag Award to make our parks safer, more inclusive spaces for all.
Learn more👇
tinyurl.com/3ptye9rj
We're excited to launch a major #SaferParks: #StandUpAgainstStreetHarassment campaign in partnership with @suzylamplughtrust.bsky.social @keepbritaintidy.bsky.social #GreenFlagAward to build a community of active bystanders and make our parks safer, more inclusive spaces for all
Dr @annabarker.bsky.social featured on #BBC London 94.9 yesterday morning discussing the #SaferParks project, exploring how to make parks safer for women. 🎙️
Tune in from 2:07:30 📻⬇️
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
#AcademicSky #LawSky
The ‘Safer Parks: Improving Access for Women and Girls’ guidance completely deserves celebrating- congrats @annabarker.bsky.social
Rowntree Park is in the guidance as a case study for what we doing to make the park welcoming to teenage girls.
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www.greenflagaward.org/resources/sa...
The ‘Safer Parks: Improving Access for Women and Girls’ guidance completely deserves celebrating- congrats @annabarker.bsky.social
Rowntree Park is in guidance as a case study for what we doing to make the park welcoming to teenage girls.
#saferparks
www.greenflagaward.org/resources/sa...
Last night at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social Awards we celebrated the positive impact the #SaferParks project is having on policy and practice. 🏆
The real strength is the collaborative partnership’s commitment to bring about change and the value of doing this by engaging with women and girls.
Great that our co-produced guidance on 'Safer Parks: Improving Access for Women and Girls', part of the @greenflagaward.bsky.social programme, was highlighted at the #UNHabitat #WorldUrbanForum in Cairo
Guidance available at: www.greenflagaward.org/resources/sa...
#CairoCallToAction #SaferParks