Girls night in is a national movement taking place across the UK, asking people to boycott clubs and bars. This is to make venues listen to people’s concerns and respond to the huge increase in recent drink spiking cases.
The movement is asking clubs and bars to increase their entry security and offer free drink protection devices such as StopTopps. Students across the UK are boycotting nightclubs in order to put pressure on the venues in order to prevent the massive uprise in drink spiking.
The movement is also asking venues to provide a clear and obvious guide for people who have been spiked.
A petition “to make it a legal requirement for nightclubs to thoroughly search guests on entry” has now gained over 65,000 signatures.
Girlsnightinedinburgh’s Instagram page have reached 4,207 followers already.
This photo they recently posted has already reached over 500 likes.
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Nottingham Girls Night In now has over 6k followers on Instagram!
“We hope to achieve awareness of how much [spiking] actually occurs in clubs and we are trying to push the nightclubs and bars to recognise that it’s an issue that needs more attention now more than ever. The regular safety measures individuals do such as, ‘cover your drink, make sure to not leave it unattended, make sure you see the bartender make it,’ aren’t enough anymore.”
Girls Night In Bristol adds: “This isn’t an attack on clubs, as spiking is done by individuals, but really an attempt to reverse ignorance and an opportunity to work together.”
GNI Bristol says measures that could be introduced to combat spiking include: increased body/bag searching, better CCTV at bars, better care for those who think they’ve been spiked.