The Night Angels need funds to ensure our project grows and supports more women. We need training, supplies and equipment for our Stroud team.
The Night Angels launched in Stroud in 2023 as part of Safe Space which is a scheme started in 2022 following a spate of rapes, attacks and lewd acts on women. We have over 500 safe spaces within the South West, including over 250 Stage Coach buses. We have a base and a charity shop in Stroud where the NIght Angels have been running for 10 months and we have attend to over 160 incidents. In the very near future we are setting up the Night Angel service in Gloucester City along with a Safe Haven. We work closely with the police and councils. We are a team of women volunteers (over 70 and growing) that patrols the streets at night to help vulnerable women stay safe. We also attend public events and we intend to visit school, colleges and universities to start early intervention in the near future. Our project is seeking funding for our Stroud Team to continue our service. We are highly trained and we carry and AED, first aid, bags, Naloxone, bleed kits and many more supplies.
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Why it's a great idea:
Violence towards women and girls are on the rise so having our Night Angel Team in the Stroud District are will benefit all women using the nighttime economy. The angels will also be on the Stroud to Gloucester evening trains in the very near future, this has been developed since statistics show a 50% increase in violence against women and girls on the trains. The project is aimed to keep women safe in Stroud whilst they are out enjoying the night time economy. The Angels are highly trained in all aspects of health and will help all women stay safe during the night time. The team carry a ruck sack each containing life saving equipment, which is administered to not only women but we do also help men on occasion. We have carried out a survey and the women of Stroud are starting to feel safer, however there are more locations that we need to assess. We would like to provide transport (a car) to help more women in the Stroud District get home safely and an app.
Steps to get it done:
The Night Angels have reduced the strain on the emergency services in Stroud District. To date we have attended 165 incidents, to include first aid and transport, given out 220 bottles of water, 516 lollies and we have picked up 813 bottles/glass and other harmful items off of the street and disposed of them.
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VolunteerThe founder Chrissie Lowery set up the Safe Space initiative in August 2022 following a spate of rapes, attacks, lewd incidents and general safety for women in Stroud.
The second rape was located in Dudbridge and the team reclaimed the tunnel where the crime happened and brought the community together. We then approached local businesses for both the daytime and nighttinme economies to set up the scheme. To date we have over 600 Safe Spaces to include the Stage Coach buses.
In December 2023 Chrissie lauched The NIght Angels patrols, which happen every weekend and also for local events. The Angels are highly trianed individuals that are also DBS checked. The Angels are volunteers and we have approximately 70. They go through a robust training programme and are reviewed throughout the year. We provide high visabilty jackets, coats, hoodies, t-shirts, beanies and refreshments during our duties.
Since lauching we have attended to 165 incidents which include giving vulnerable women transport, first aid, mental first aid, hydration, reassurance, clothes, shoes, period products, food gift cards, defib, charging phones, liaise with families, domestic violence situations, drugs, anti-spiking and we also first aid to any gender.
In the future we would like an app, that will help women find an Angel, offer safety advice, find safe spaces, buses, provide a Safe Haven and to widen our areas of patrol with a Night Angel car.
We collobarate and partner with local councils and councillors, police, the crime commisioner, city safe, night safe officers, trainers and the public.
We would like to introduce a safety programme to be deilvered to schools, colleges and universities.
Project Owner: The Night Angels CIC The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
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