Salisbury Soroptimists said it hopes to host more personal safety training sessions after the success of its first workshop.

The inaugural session on Saturday, December 23, run by trainer Georgina Prior of Live Safely, was designed to instruct women on how to keep themselves safe when walking at night with simple but effective techniques that could be tried during the workshop. Eight women from the Friary took part at the Friary Centre.

The event was the final part of the Salisbury Soroptimists’ 16 days of activism, part of the United Nations’ “Orange the World” campaign to eliminate violence against women and girls. For the Salisbury Soroptimists, the period of activism was also part of a wider project named “Making our City Safer”.

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Salisbury Soroptimists will also be repeating their street light audit for the third year running and will be holding Wiltshire Council to account for actioning their findings. In previous years the organisation identified dark areas of the city which needed urgent attention. A report was commissioned from Atkins, but although this was due last September, no outcome has so far been seen.

Street light audit project leader Liz Batten said: “If you are concerned about particular areas of the city which are not well lit, let us know.”

Any community group or individual interested in attending a personal safety training session has been asked to contact the Salisbury Soroptimists via email.