Creating safer spaces

Orchard is pleased to invite you to the next in its Conversations for Good series – an exploration of how we can create safer places for women within Jersey.

We welcome Poppy Murray, women’s safety campaigner and sexual harassment prevention specialist from Guernsey, as she shares her experience launching and running SafetyNet Guernsey, the island’s first charity seeking to make nights out safer for everyone. She will be sharing the challenges and successes of her work, the impacts of inappropriate behaviours, including sexual assault, harassment, and spiking, and what we can do individually and collectively to create safer communities.

Poppy will be joined by Kate Wright, CEO of Freeda, who is already working to explore the underlying causes of rising male distress and harmful behaviours rooted in gender inequality and societal expectations of masculinity. In her work towards gender equality, she will be discussing some of the barriers we need to break down to help men feel more included in the conversation, as part of the collective effort to reduce violence against women and girls.