Nightsafe

Nightsafe is a multi-agency programme of communication, education and partnership working to reduce incidents of alcohol related crime.

The project has been created so that partners work together to:

• reassure people that disorderly behaviour is not acceptable in the Vale of White Horse.
• increase public confidence and improve the feeling of safety when enjoying a night out
• promote the positive behaviour of most young people, encouraging everyone to respect themselves and others
• work together with pubwatch members to promote nightsafe campaigns.

Partners involved in the project include the South and Vale Community Safety Partnership, Vale of White Horse District Council Licensing Team, Thames Valley Police, Oxfordshire County Council and Pubwatch. 

Licensing charter and drugs prevention initiative

Members of nightsafe are required to sign up to a charter of good conduct.  The purpose of the charter is to enforce the campaign and improve links with licensed premises.

In addition designated premises supervisors are asked to sign up to the "Drugs Prevention" initiative. A private security firm is employed periodically throughout the year to deploy drug dogs in and around the town centres and inside the licensed premises.

Licensed premises that have signed up to nightsafe:

Abingdon

• Abingdon snooker club
• The Black Swan
• The Blue Boar
• The Crown and Thistle
• The Grapes
• The Midget
• The Punch Bowl
• Strattons nightclub
• The Boundary House
• The Cross Keys

Wantage

• The Bay Tree
• The Comrades Club
• King Alfred’s Head
• The Blue Boar
• Shush
• Shoulder of Mutton
• The Royal Oak
• The Swan
• The Lord Nelson