The Student Safety App (SSA) is the world’s first crowdsourced safety platform, built by students, for students, designed to enhance safety and well-being both on and off campus, with no in-app purchases, hidden fees, or partnership costs for universities. Spearheaded by former Leicester City, Aston Villa, Birmingham City, and England striker Emile Heskey, the app helps students feel safer by combining anonymous, real-time incident reporting with practical personal safety tools and clearer access to support.

Key features include:

• Anonymous incident reporting, allowing students to flag concerns in real time while protecting their identity.

• Real-time local alerts, helping students stay aware of what’s happening nearby and make safer choices.

• A 24/7 manned control room, which monitors and verifies reports to help ensure alerts are reliable and escalated appropriately.

• Track Me, which lets students share their journey with trusted contacts and set check-ins or an expected arrival time.

• Safe Routes, which can reroute a student away from reported incidents with one tap.

• SOS, which sends an urgent alert and live location to trusted contacts when help is needed quickly.

• Fake Call, a discreet on-demand call to help someone exit an uncomfortable situation without escalation.

• Secret Record, discreet audio and photo capture to help document an incident if needed.

• Rewards, offering exclusive student discounts as a thank-you for supporting a safer community.

Emile Heskey said, “This app is not just a piece of tech – it’s a tribute to lives lost, and a promise to the students of today that their safety matters. The Student Safety App is a social app that allows students to work and navigate through inner cities and around crime. Students should never have to walk home along feeling afraid. This all is what they’ve been waiting for – practical, fast, and student-focused.” 

As a recent Nottingham Trent University graduate, Monica Ghuman said, “There’s not one platform that unites a student with all the key stakeholders in the university experience. You’ve got WhatsApp channels, emails, countless different apps, but nothing that puts a student in contact with all those providers.” 

This realisation is what sparked the idea for the Student Safety App. They are also currently developing a college version, specifically for college students, with features for safeguarding minors.

Ask for Angela is proud to support the Student Safety App, helping to make sure clear, consistent support is available to anyone who may be feeling vulnerable and/or unsafe.

For more information on the Student Safety App, please see: About Student Safety App – Student Safety

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