Green Dot Bystander Home

Blackpool is the first place in the country to launch the Green Dot safety campaign urging people not to look the other way when they see bad behavior and we want you to join us on this exciting opportunity to make a real change within our town. Together we can make Blackpool a place where everyone feels safe and supported by encouraging everyone to be active bystanders and stand up against violence.

What Is Green Dot?

The Green Dot programme is a community driven violence prevention strategy that depends on the power of bystanders to prevent and reduce violence in our town and shift social and cultural norms. It equips people with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to identify, intervene and report power-based personal violence.

The programme uses the analogy of a green dot to illustrate small actions and positive behaviours. A green dot is any choice, behaviour, attitude, or statement that expresses intolerance of bullying, sexual assault, sexual harassment, dating/partner violence and stalking on-line or in person. These green dots add up, creating a culture of intolerance to violence.

In light of increasing media coverage and disclosures, it is clear, that now more than ever, that as a community we are in need of support and guidance to safely and effectively intervene to prevent incidents like this from happening.

Introduction to the Green Dot Campaign

Get Involved?

Find out more/Training -we have a number of free training events for both the community and businesses from introductory sessions to skill based workshops that you can attend to equip you with the skills and confidence to make a difference and be an active bystander
Spread the word - share our campaign in your workplace, on social media and with your friends and family to help us reach more people.

Get in Touch

Do you have questions? want to book training or just want to get involved? Contact us

Jump on board and let’s cover Blackpool in Green Dots - every action counts, and every dot matters, even small acts can have a big impact!

“I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that; then I realised I was somebody”

Lily Tomlin

#whatsyourgreendot

PSHE

Personal, social, health and economic education is a school curriculum subject in England that focuses on strengthening the knowledge, skills, and connections to keep children and young people healthy and safe and prepare them for life and work.

Schools should refer to the DfE statutory guidance to inform their delivery.

In addition, below are resources designed to support you in your work within schools around implementation of relationships education, relationships and sex education and health education. It includes the latest links to RSHE resources and trusted national organisations.

1. Consulting with parents and pupils, and developing policy
2. What to teach and how to teach it
3. Sustaining success

Key areas of RSHE

The introduction of statutory RSHE in September 2020 focuses on mandatory education in the following areas:

Mental wellbeing

Internet safety and harms

Physical health and fitness

Healthy eating

Drugs, alcohol and tobacco

Health and prevention

Basic first aid

Changing adolescent body

STI Symptom Checker

Unusual discharge
Pain, burning or increase in weeing
Rashes, lumps or blisters
Stinging, itching or tingling
Pain and/or bleeding during sex
Bleeding after sex

Pain in the testicles (balls)
Pain or tenderness in the lower tummy
Irregular bleeding
Strong, unpleasant smell from the vagina after sex
Painful swelling of penis, testicles or foreskin
Brown eggs on pubic or other body hair
No Symptoms

Get tested if you have any of these symptoms, a sexual partner has symptoms or you’re worried after having sex without a condom. Many STIs have no symptoms at all, like HIV. The only way to know for sure is to get tested.