Hello, what you are seeing now is years of thinking and then planning....and then finaly putting it together.

There is only me curently runing it but i hope to invite more people in who are pasionate about night life (any type,whether its theater, night clubs, bars, pubs, restaurants etc) and helping these busineses become more disabled friendly-which works both ways,we get acess to good venues and the venue owners get more paying customers.

I am a severely disabled adult who has a lot of complex needs and sevral disabilitys inc classic autism and what the UK calls Learning Disability. I am a die hard electronic music fan since a very young child i listened to nothing else and a die hard clubber 2000 onwards.ive also being DJing since 1999.

One of the things I have struggled with is acesing mainstream clubbing, and if its an acesible place; the next thing i wish for is just being treated with the same respect as everyone else by other clubbers at such places-for me that didnt and still doesnt usualy hapen. 

At Night Safe, I think that everyone deserves to enjoy the nightlife without any kind of barriers. We are dedicated to educating clubs, bars, and restaurants about the unique access needs of adults with disabilities (and these can be suported within there venue), inc.  those with autism, learning disability and physical impairments. My goal is to conect & collab with places involved with night life, to help them understand issues that may be stopping disabled people from coming to them - sometimes it can be something as simple as not including any infomation on there lighting rigs;ie what level of flashing to expect;it may put some people off going at all if they have photosensitive epilepsy or sensory overload or migraine etc triggered by flashing lights.  

My wish is to educate clubs (& other entertainement venues) on how to suport us better and to understand disability is rarely ever solved with just a rental ramp, my wish is also to help suport people thinking of going into planning a club night OR night club,I want the night life industry to also see us as customers and not just tokenism for them to say theyve had someone with disabulitys in.

 My wish is also to show them the need for making clubs learning disability and autism friendly such as allowing up to 2 suport staff per client (if the persons show there staffing badge with a letter to prove they need 2-1 suport) as this is one of the bigest issues i had when i was on 2-1 suport right up to 2016, venues often dont think about the complex nature of some disablities. teaching all staff to be able to comunicate in makaton and at least level 1 BSL for deaf/HoH or non verbal/non speaking people,a lot of disabled and non disabled people do not realise even profoundly deaf people can enjoy music via feeling the rhythm (plus some night clubs have dance floors which pump the rhtyhm threw so they can feel it without having to be near a speaker bass bin) and also enjoy the other aspects of clubbing such as the social side,enjoying the atmosphere,the AV side to it, drinking alcohol, or eating at restaurants etc.

they coud use boardmaker pictorials and PECS to help people with learning disability and autism process where they are going,perhaps make a basic boardmaker social story to hand to every person with LD and/or autism who needs it to help reduce anxietys with where they are going,this woud probably bring more disabled customers in-more money spent etc.,plus visual directions pinned up everywhere woud help heavily intoxicated people also find there way around so to me its a win win.

I have a lot to say and do on this subject, if you are an night /entertaiment venue and are interested in collabing please get in contact with me.

ive worked with 2 large arts related busineses on making themselves more acesible - one in scotland was completly up for it and the other ignored everything i said,so i spent a lot of wasted weeks of works for patronising tokenism.