What we recommend:

• Work with later opening businesses to provide Safe Havens for those seeking help
• Provide clear information in town centres on what to do in an emergency
• Offer bystander, personal safety and self-defence training
• Encourage all businesses, venues and events to be accessible and inclusive to all, providing safe environments, affordable evening activities and events targeted at young people, LGBTQ+, people of all ethnicities and those with disabilities
• USB charging points in town centres, including wireless charge compatible with all phones
• Relationship-building between young people, police and residents
• Raise awareness around a lack of activities for young people and that groups are not trying to cause trouble

What we recommend:

• Improve lighting in problematic dark areas
• Introduce a legal street art wall for young people to take ownership of
• Council to map out all free outdoor spaces outlining opening times, available facilities and whether there are sheltered spaces
• Existing youth groups and clubs should be better advertised
• Increase the availability and affordability of youth activities, for example by working with existing businesses and organisations to introduce a late-opening youth space
• Encourage activities in the evening that suit the whole community
• Consider introducing interventions like community piano and ping-pong tables
• Encourage weather-proof outdoor performance and gathering spaces to be designed into new developments
• Introduce toilets in carefully selected locations
• Consider providing more seating

What we recommend:

• Build on the current and historic music offer by encouraging more music nights of all types
• Work with theatres and other cultural institutions to host music and other types of cultural events including targeted music events for young people
• Consider more outdoor cultural events utilising the river and green spaces, like outdoor cinema

• Encourage existing food and retail to provide healthy and affordable options that can appeal to a more diverse customer base

• Consider introducing an activity-based evening (and day) business that appeals to young people, like Gravity in Wandsworth or an e-sports gaming bar

• Encourage night-time businesses to provide affordable options and targeted events for young people
• Engage cinemas and theatres to provide student discount and other concessions on designated days

• Utilise social media to better promote venues, places and events in the evenings
• Devise and promote a resident-specific calendar of events

What we recommend:

• Improve night-time experience at bus stops by encouraging all stops to have real-time service updates displayed, sufficient lighting and clear safety information
• Review of night bus and train services to understand whether it needs improving
• Campaign targeted at sexual harassment on all forms of public transport
• Introduce incentives for more young people to cycle like a youth hire scheme or cycle-to-school bike concessions
• Request night marshals on public transport to improve safety