Personal Safety Workshops A Success!!!

Female learners at the College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London have been finding out how to keep themselves and their belongings safe around College and on the street from a successful former learner who delivered a series of much wanted sessions last year.

Sev delivered a series of successful sessions for us last year and we wanted her back again. The Vice Principal Jane O’Neill met Sev through an event organised by the Metropolitan Police. Sev has worked extensivley with the Metropolitan Police and we were keen to get her on board.

Feedback from learners has likewise been overwhelmingly positive. Amongst the anonymous comments received, many commented not only on how helpful the sessions had been, but also how enjoyable.

We delivered 14 taster sessions at Tottenham and Enfield which went down a strom.

"The personal safety awareness workshops for our female learners was one of the most exciting energising and interactive workshop I have witnessed in my working in Further Education. The feedback from learners and tutor was so positive that we will definitely have Sev back in to work with our learners again. In the workshops you can hear and see the learners growing in confidence. At the end of each workshop the learners’ only complaints are that they want more session's with Sev, she is an outstanding workshop facilitator. "

Anthony Robinson
Enrichment Manager

Comments from female learners:

“I learnt what to do if someone takes a knife out”

“I learnt new techniques that are smart, on how to protect myself”

“The whole session was really interesting”

“How to avoid an attack”

“It allowed me to see the best way to handle emergency situations”

“I liked the session has it was very helpful in learning more about how to protect yourself from street crime”

“I love learning about self-protection and I would like to learn more about it, because I think it is very useful in life, these days”

“I think the session on self-protection was actually amazing. Also I really would appreciate if we could get more information about self-protection, it constantly helps”

“I think it was very useful to keep me away from street crime and I would like to know more”

“Learning about self-protection is really good and useful for us. We learnt how to stop a person trying to cause us harm and I’m going to try this if something happens to me”

“Sev is down to earth and very informative”

“I enjoyed the interaction. Sev made everything very realistic”

“I enjoyed the physical part, it made me feel very involved. I also enjoyed being told that everyday objects can be useful to protect me”