Empowering Grow, Hackney with Free Online Self-led Vulnerability Training
Ask for Angela provided Grow, Hackney, a not-for-profit venue, with free online self-led training to support vulnerable individuals.
Around Christmas time, a plain-clothed police officer visited several venues in Birmingham including Albert Schloss, Slug and Lettuce in Brindley Place, The Dragon Inn (JDW) and Mama Roux in Digbeth (which also has a female safety welfare team patrolling the venue).
In each venue, the officer tested the venue’s response to ‘Ask for Angela’ and they received a 100% success rate. After the mystery shops were conducted, the officers would speak with the management team and staff to provide praise and feedback on their responses.
For Valentine’s Weekend, West Midlands Police checked what measures venues in Coventry and Solihull had in place in regard to Ask for Angela but this investigation was not undercover.
Ask for Angela provided Grow, Hackney, a not-for-profit venue, with free online self-led training to support vulnerable individuals.
The Ask for Angela CIC joins ten other businesses in being awarded as a winner of the Sage Small Business XI Competition by Sage, Official Accounting Software Partner of cricket’s
Having been funded by Cleveland’s Unit for the Reduction of Violence (CURV), voluntary ‘mystery shoppers’ entered various premises across the Teesside region and tested the implementation of the scheme.
Foyleside Shopping Centre in Derry, Northern Ireland recently rolled out our online Ask for Angela Vulnerability Training to staff members to support implementing the scheme.
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