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Community Safety & Business Resilience

The Northbank is committed to the safety of everyone who lives, works or visits our area. We work with the GLA, Metropolitan Police, Westminster City Council and other partners to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour as well as to minimise the risk from more serious incidents.

Our retail and commercial premises are supported by our regular community forum as well as our professional Street Patrol, free radio network and dedicated information sharing site provided through the Safer Business Network.

The BID is actively engaged with our vibrant evening and night time economy. We work with our bars, theatres, restaurants and hotels to ensure that everyone enjoying our many licensed venues has a great night, safely.

Business continuity is a priority for everyone. The Northbank is committed to building a resilient neighbourhood that is prepared for, and able to respond to, circumstances having a negative effect on daily life.

The Northbank delivers a fantastic programme of free events and seminars, across these themes.

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Our Street Patrol team work 7 days a week, from  6.30 am – 11.30 pm providing a responsive service to help tackle low-level crime and anti-social behaviour.

Contact the Northbank on 020 3697 9270 during office hours or ask us about our free Northbank radio network for commercial premises.

 

Business Continuity & Resilience

Through community engagement the Northbank is continually reviewing our collective level of preparedness and this forms the basis of the Northbank’s strategic planning to mitigate risk of serious incident. Along with free counter terrorism awareness seminars, cyber security workshops and promoting the importance of business continuity planning, the Northbank is committed to developing our community-wide response to bolster our capacity to respond and recover.

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Self-Registration Link for Emergency Notification Platform

The Northbank BID Emergency Notification System is an incident alerting messaging system that allows us to share important information via email, SMS and mobile app with local businesses and staff. You can now register for the platform to receive real-time notifications such as

  • Major security incidents affecting the area, civil emergencies and disruption such as protests or road closures
  • Forthcoming events and training opportunities (counter-terrorism awareness, crime prevention, business resilience)
  • Useful resources/documents on business continuity, incident management and terrorism preparedness.

How to sign up

This service is free, to register your contact details and receive these messages please complete this online form Northbank Bid 

After registering you will receive a verification email so please check your email, as it may be sent to a junk folder. After registering you can also download the free app on Apple App Store ‘Northbank Crises Alert’ or Google Play Store

 

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Night Safety

Training sessions on personal safety and vulnerability 

There will be a series of 12 sessions in total . They are focused on personal safety and are open to anyone, not just women and are open for anyone to attend. We can market these sessions and we have offered to host 3 days of in person training. To book these session see here.

 

11th April – The SAVOY 18 April: HEAVEN NIGHT CLUB 25 April  10am – 12pm  and 2pm-4pm  (either Vulnerability or Anti-Sexual Harassment)

Women’s night safety walks have been set up to bring together women who live, work, visit and study in Westminster to establish a checklist of factors that may impact the safety of women at night.  The council will use the recommendations and feedback to create approaches that will improve women’s safety and the safety of other vulnerable groups.  They are currently working with specialist groups to ensure our walks engage with a diverse range of people. We are committed to gaining representation from LGBT+ communities, people of colour, disabled individuals, and families. If you are interested in joining for night safety walks, please fill out Westminster City Council’s form. If you would like to know more about how you can support the initiative, please email WCC

Safe Havens

(for venues, property owners, churches etc)

Our venues can sign up to be safe havens, offering a place for a vulnerable person to rest or reset until they continue their onward journey safely. We could create a network of safe places across London HQ. Register and see the criteria here.

 

Business Accreditation

(For night time economy Venues)

An accreditation for night time economy venues to have an accreditation in practising women’s safety and also a framework to help them improve.  Register Interest

 

Volunteer as a Night Star

(For workers and corporates interested in volunteering)

We can encourage venues to train as Night Stars volunteers. Night Stars aim to make the West End’s nightlife safer for everyone. Volunteers work with evening and night time economy venues to promote women’s safety and prevent vulnerability in the night out.

 

Community Safety & Business Resilience

Steering Group

The Community Safety & Business Resilience Steering Group is made up of local businesses representatives, police, council and charities. The group meets quarterly to discuss our ongoing work into night time security and homelessness, among many other initiatives.

And we have three sub-groups:

  • Night Economy
  • Business Continuity
  • Retail Forum

If you’d like to join a group, please contact us.

Information

The Northbank
22a St James’s Square
London
SW1Y 4JH


info@thenorthbank.london
02036979270

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