{"id":8632,"date":"2021-04-01T10:29:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T10:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stuff2move.co.uk\/?p=8632"},"modified":"2021-04-01T10:29:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T10:29:14","slug":"exeter-students-set-up-walking-group-to-promote-womens-safety-in-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuff2move.co.uk\/?p=8632","title":{"rendered":"Exeter students set up walking group to promote women\u2019s safety in the city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the recent tragic news of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/uk\/2021\/03\/11\/six-women-have-been-reported-as-killed-by-men-since-sarah-everards-disappearance-says-mp-198673\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah Everard\u2019s murder<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/uk\/exeter\/2021\/03\/19\/exeter-uni-liaising-with-police-following-arrests-after-two-sexual-assaults-on-campus-51339\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two sexual assaults which have taken place on campus<\/a>\u00a0this month, there have been many protests and pushes to improve women\u2019s safety around the country and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/uk\/exeter\/2021\/03\/23\/on-campus-theres-been-so-many-assaults-we-spoke-to-exeter-students-sit-down-n-shut-up-51408\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on campus.<\/a>\u00a0Two Exeter uni students have gone the extra mile to create an online community which promoting women\u2019s safety around the city as \u201cwe are stronger and safer together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/uaeexeter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Urban Angels Exeter<\/a>\u00a0was founded about a month ago by Exeter grad Talisker Alcobia Cornford, 21. With over 1,500 members already, it was the first community to launch, and since then similar groups have been set up in Birmingham, Cardiff, Portsmouth and Brighton. Talisker said: \u201cThe aim of Urban Angels is to provide a space for women to share alerts of anything potentially dangerous they experience in Exeter, a space for women to share their experiences and seek solidarity and support, and a place to share ideas, tips and set up initiatives that make the city safer for us.\u201d The community is building a strong support network for women, to support other women.<\/p>\n<p>In light of Sarah Everard\u2019s murder and the statistic that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.openaccessgovernment.org\/97-of-women-in-the-uk\/105940\/?fbclid=IwAR3DZjxamGZ0i6KMBFO3OcpmUIPxGy-CQZX2228yANkboyLDkNVdbYqYAV8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">97% of young women have experienced a form of sexual harassment<\/a>\u00a0from men, women around the country have been reminded of how unsafe it can be to walk alone. Talisker told the Exeter Tab: \u201cMy idea for the group came from the desire to make UK cities safer for women. I feel immensely passionate about women\u2019s safety, it is ridiculous that women have to fear for their safety when walking alone and that many of the actions we have to take become the norm for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the recent tragic news of\u00a0Sarah Everard\u2019s murder\u00a0and the\u00a0two sexual assaults which have taken place on campus\u00a0this month, there have been many protests and pushes to improve women\u2019s safety around the country and\u00a0on campus.\u00a0Two Exeter uni students have gone the extra mile to create an online community which promoting women\u2019s safety around the city as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuff2move.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuff2move.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuff2move.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuff2move.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuff2move.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuff2move.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8633,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuff2move.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8632\/revisions\/8633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuff2move.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuff2move.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuff2move.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}