What does night-time safety education for schools cost?

£175 +VAT for a single session, £300 +VAT for a double session in one visit, up to £1,000 +VAT for a whole Safe Nights Day. Travel, materials and the staff and parent notes included. Kent is the base rate; London, Essex, Hertfordshire, East Sussex and Surrey add £50 to £100 of travel. Cluster bookings the same day or week are discounted.

Why pay when police visit schools for free?

Police visits are valuable and complementary. UNight brings the operational inside view of venues, door teams and safety schemes, delivered by someone who has run them. In Kent, police supported the sessions rather than replacing them.

On its own, rarely, which is why there is a talk for each year from Year 11 to Year 13, each building on the last. Staff get a briefing note and parents get a plain-English note, so the conversation carries on after the visit.

Does it cover the 2026 RSHE statutory guidance?

Yes, mapped module by module including consent, harassment, personal safety in public places and preparation for adult life. Schools receive the RSHE compliance note for curriculum evidence.

Matthew Jones-Roberts of UNight U.K. Ltd: ten years in youth work and the twelve since running bars, clubs and events.

Which areas are covered?

Kent, London, Essex, Hertfordshire, East Sussex and Surrey for 2026-27, delivered in clusters. Kent is the base rate, other areas add £50 to £100 of travel per visit. Other areas open when three or more schools want dates.

Schools Programme | Night-Time Safety Education for Sixth Forms

The programme

One talk for every year. Three settings.

Our starting point is a positive one. This is not about scaring young people off nights out. It is about helping them have a great time safely and look out for each other. Schools, FE colleges, universities and students' unions can use our contact with students to deliver exactly that.

Three talks, one for each year group from Year 11 to Year 13. Each is about fifty minutes and each builds on the last, so a student who hears all three gets the whole picture across three years. Every talk is mapped to the RSHE statutory guidance that became mandatory in September 2026.

Year 11

Having fun as safely as you can

The places they actually go before they can get into a venue and what each one is missing
Alcohol, spiking and consent, plainly and without the lecture
Getting home, looking after a mate and knowing who to call

Year 12

Going out as safely as you can

What a night out in town really is and how to plan one
Staying in charge of alcohol and spotting spiking under the new law
Who is looking after them: door staff, Ask for Angela and the schemes on the door

Year 13

Adult freedoms, adult responsibilities

What a licence gives them as a customer and what it asks of them
Harassment, assault and consent at eighteen and what a bystander can do
Leaving home: a new town, freshers and nights out abroad

Also available: workshop half-days, whole-cohort Safe Nights Days, staff CPD and parent evenings. Ask when you enquire.

16 to 18 cohorts

One session, built for college life

College students are already closer to the night-time economy than most sixth formers, so the Year 12 and Year 13 talks combine into one fast-moving session for induction or tutorial time.

How a night out actually works, alcohol without the lecture and spiking under the new law
Consent, harassment and assault and the bystander skills that work
Who is looking after them: Ask for Angela, door staff, accredited venues and the journey home

Runs whole-cohort or group by group across a day. Larger cohorts are efficient to deliver, which is reflected in the quote.

Freshers, sports teams and societies

Two ways in, booked by universities or students' unions

Freshers and welcome talks: the full programme for first years in the weeks their habits form, supporting the duties on harassment and sexual misconduct that providers now carry under the Office for Students
Sports teams and societies: sessions for committee members on safeguarding their members, covering socials, tour, spiking, consent and getting everyone home

Students' unions: we build these with you, not around you. Committee safeguarding training slots straight into your development programme.

The RSHE guidance, explained

The new guidance is mandatory. Here is what that means for you.

The problem

It applies to you, now

The RSHE statutory guidance published in July 2025 became mandatory for every school in England on 1 September 2026. Secondary schools must now teach personal safety including spiking, consent and healthy relationships, the harm done by misogyny and preparation for adult life, with all content open to parents.

Why it is hard

The newest content is the furthest from the classroom

Few teachers have stood on a nightclub door, dealt with a spiking or run Ask for Angela on a Saturday night. Yet the guidance expects credible, current teaching on exactly those realities and inspectors expect evidence of how you deliver it. Downloading a worksheet does not get you there.

The solution

Mapped, pre-shared, delivered by the industry

Every talk is mapped to the guidance module by module. Before the visit you get the slides with full speaker notes, a staff briefing note, a note for parents and an RSHE compliance note for your curriculum evidence, exactly as the guidance expects of external providers. Then it is delivered by someone with twelve years running the night.

Want the source? Read the RSHE statutory guidance in full on GOV.UK. Then let us do the hard part.

Pricing, published in full

What it costs. No enquiry needed to find out.

Format (Kent rate)	What you get	Price (plus VAT)
Single session	One talk for one year group, with the staff and parent notes	£175 +VAT
Double session	Two talks in one visit, most booked and best value	£300 +VAT
Safe Nights Day	Whole-cohort day: talks, workshops, staff twilight	£750 to £1,000 +VAT
Cluster and MAT rates	Schools booking the same day or the same week as a neighbour, or trust-wide deals	Discounted, ask us

And here is exactly how travel changes it

We are Kent-based, so Kent prices are the base rate. Elsewhere we simply add real travel: 40p per mile driven or the train fare, which in practice works out as below. Use the quote form and we confirm your exact figure within two working days.

Where you are	What it adds per visit
Kent	Base rate, no addition
London, Essex, Hertfordshire, East Sussex, Surrey	+ £50 to £100 +VAT
Everywhere else	Quoted on actual travel. Free delivery may apply where a police, council or sponsor programme is live

All prices exclude VAT, charged at the standard rate. Clustering is the other lever: book the same day or the same week as a neighbouring school and the cluster rate applies, because the travel is shared. The first school to book in an area sets the week.

Matthew Jones-Roberts, founder of UNight — Matthew Jones-Roberts, UNight

Who delivers it

Ten years in youth work. Twelve running the night.

Matthew runs UNight from Canterbury. He spent ten years as a youth worker and the twelve since running bars, clubs and events. He has worked the door, the bar and the office of the kind of venues your students will one day walk into. He grew up in Kent and went to Bennett Memorial in Tunbridge Wells, so he has sat on the other side of the school hall too.

“I am not here to tell you not to go out.”How every talk opens. Every one ends with a reason to go.

Students listen because he works in the world they are about to walk into and nobody is trying to frighten them. Staff can relax because everything he will say is in their hands before he arrives. UNight is not funded by any alcohol producer, distributor or licensed venue and the sessions recommend none.

They ask: who do you work with?

Organisations we support and what each one does.

UNight

Who we are: a night-time economy consultancy working across licensing, public affairs and safety since 2014, founded by a career youth worker turned industry operator. We bring the talks, the delivery and the Kent proof, with safeguarding built in and RSHE mapping for every session.

Ask for Angela

What it is: the UK's best-known safer-socialising scheme. Anyone who feels unsafe can ask venue staff for "Angela" and trained teams quietly help. We proudly support the scheme and teach students how it works and what to expect when they use it.

Best Bar None

What it is: the Home Office-backed accreditation for well-run venues. We support the scheme and teach students what an accredited venue means and how to choose where to spend their money.

The Glitter Standard

What it is: the accreditation for venues where everyone can walk in and be themselves, including LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent customers, tested by unannounced checks. Students learn it as one of the marks of a well-run venue.

Students also meet Challenge 25 and PASS cards, National Pubwatch, Purple Flag, Street Pastors, SIA door supervisors and Martyn's Law. These are national schemes and standards. UNight supports them and explains them. It does not speak for them.

We support these organisations because safety education only works if the world students walk into matches what they were taught. What they learn on a Tuesday morning is what they find on a Saturday night.

Proof and assurance

Proven in Kent. Built to pass your DSL's checks.

Piloted across six Kent schools with the support of the schools, Kent Police and safety partners:

The King's School Canterbury
The Langton Grammar School for Boys Canterbury
Simon Langton Girls' Grammar School Canterbury
The Abbey School Faversham
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School Faversham
Highworth Grammar School Ashford

The line that sums it up: we care about your wellbeing before you become our guests.

Enhanced DBS and public liability insurance details shared with your DSL before the visit, with delivery under your safeguarding and visitor policies
The slides, a staff briefing note, a note for parents and an RSHE compliance note, all shared in advance as the guidance expects
Disclosures passed immediately to your DSL, with signposting to support in every session
A member of your staff in the room throughout. Consent taught as the law, never with blame on the person it happened to
UNight is not funded by any alcohol producer, distributor or licensed venue and the sessions recommend none

Seen in action

Real rooms, real nights, real delivery.

Matthew delivering the spiking module on stage — Delivering the spiking session: what it is, how to spot it, what to do

The alcohol session being delivered on a theatre stage — The alcohol session: honest, practical, no lectures

Teaching Ask for Angela on stage — Teaching Ask for Angela, the scheme students will actually meet

Freshers Town Takeover street event with Kent Police and Canterbury BID — Freshers' Town Takeover with Kent Police, Canterbury BID and Kent Fire and Rescue

The Freshers Town Takeover event team — The Freshers' Town Takeover team: safety with the energy of a good night out

Matthew working a night-time event — 12 years of front line experience, on the ground after dark

Matthew receiving the Purple Flag accreditation for Canterbury — Collecting Canterbury's Purple Flag accreditation, the national standard for safer nights out

On stage at a national Ask for Angela event — Proud to support Ask for Angela, at the scheme's national event

Visiting Cambridge University Officers Training Corps — Consulting on student engagement with the Cambridge University Officers' Training Corps

They ask, we answer

FAQs

What does it cost, all in?

The table above is the whole answer: £175 +VAT for a single session, £300 +VAT for a double session in one visit, up to £1,000 +VAT for a Safe Nights Day. No hidden extras. Travel outside Kent and cluster discounts are the only variables.

Why pay when the police visit for free?

Take the police visit if it's offered. It's valuable and we say so. What we add is the inside view of how venues, door teams and safety schemes actually operate, delivered by someone who has run them. In Kent, police supported our sessions rather than replacing them.

Is one talk enough to change anything?

On its own, rarely. That is why there is a talk for each year from Year 11 to Year 13, each building on the last. Your staff get a briefing note and parents get a plain-English note, so the conversation carries on after we leave.

Is it appropriate for the nightlife industry to teach consent?

Consent is taught as the law and as safety, not as sex education. It is framed on the person asking, never on the person it happened to and never by gender, so nobody in the room is cast as a perpetrator or a victim. Every word is shared with your school in advance. The industry view matters because licensed venues are where we see what actually happens.

What do we need to provide and when should we book?

A room with a projector and sound, fifty clear minutes, the year group and a member of staff present throughout. Half a term ahead is comfortable. Cluster weeks are set by the first school to book in an area, so early bookings get the date and the lower price.

Can parents see what will be said?

Yes. Every booking comes with a note for parents setting out what each year group will hear and why, in plain English. You can show them the slides too. We place no restriction on sharing them.

Booking

Enquire, confirm, deliver. It's that short.

Tell us your institution, area and rough timing. We reply within two working days with cluster dates and your exact price. Before the visit you receive the slides with full speaker notes, the staff briefing note, the note for parents, the RSHE compliance note and the invoice. Enhanced DBS and insurance details go to your DSL.

Prefer to talk first? Email matthew@unightuk.co.uk or call 07738 990483.

This programme is one arm of UNight U.K. Ltd. For licensing, public affairs, night-time economy assessments and venue work, visit the main site.

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The night-time economy, teaching its own safety education.