1 July: National Personal Safety Day, which falls on Monday 14 October in 2013, is organised by the personal safety charity, Suzy Lamplugh Trust. It’s an annual event aimed at highlighting some of the simple, practical solutions that everyone can use to help avoid violence and aggression in today’s society. It’s about helping people live safer, more confident lives.
This year’s awareness campaign, StreetsAhead, is about safety on the streets. The aim of the campaign is to get people thinking about the precautions they might want to take when on the streets - such as, staying alert to your surroundings or walking against the flow of the traffic to avoid kerb crawlers.
Suzy Lamplugh provides the campaign messages and the resources and encourages local partners – including Neighbourhood Watch teams, police teams, local councils, schools/colleges and workplaces to disseminate those resources throughout their local communities. Current partner organisations have held a whole range of events and activities over the last few years, including putting the leaflets through letter boxes; handing them out in shops/community centres/in town centres; holding ‘safety surgeries in stations/shopping centres; putting on talks or plays in schools/care homes; clubs for the elderly and so on.
The Trust encourages partners to create events or activities that suit their community and which include information about specific local safety issues wherever possible.
To get more information about how you can get involved in the day and how to order a whole range of free campaign resources, from leaflets and posters to school quizzes and Powerpoint presentations, go to www.nationalpersonalsafetyday.co.uk
NB: The Trust advise that if you would like copies of the poster or leaflets you should order them as soon as possible as, even though the numbers printed each year increase substantially, the growing popularity of the event means they are always out of stock well before the day.
