The inclusion accreditation for nights out
For pubs, bars, clubs, restaurants, hotels, students' unions, sports clubs, and the events, festivals and Prides they host. Staff are trained by people who live it. Every accredited space is visited without warning. The badge is earned, and kept by keeping it true.
Trained.Tested.Earned.
Ten things a venue does beyond its Best Bar None base. All ten are on this site, with what we look for and how. Ten out of ten and the badge is yours.
Volunteer Ambassadors from the communities we serve visit as guests on random nights. Every accredited space is in the pool every year and nobody knows when.
If something slips, sixty days, our support and a re-visit are in every fee. A public map shows the date of the last pass. A standard should hold itself to one.
The Glitter Standard is the accreditation. Glittered is what you are once you have earned it.
No scoring, no weighting, no small print. Do all ten and you are Glittered. Every door that says everyone is welcome means it; this is how a venue shows it, and how a guest can know.
Twenty minutes, no cost. We tell you what applies to your kind of venue and what it costs.
Best Bar None accreditation, or its free policy templates if there is no scheme where you are. We never re-assess it.
One manager does a three-hour online course; the team does a 45-minute online module. Unlimited seats, included.
Sign the pledge, put the cards and posters up, write your courtesies list, publish a few lines online, put the QR cards out.
Ten ticks. Your Best Bar None assessor or your area manager confirms them in the assessment they already do.
The badge, the window sticker and your place on the map. Then we visit as guests. Pass, improve with our help, or reapply.
Ask for AngelaThe national scheme for a safe way out. Point nine of the Ten.
Glitterbomb EventsOur sister brand. Hundreds of LGBTQIA+ nights since 2012.
UNight UKThe national school safety scheme.Organisations whose values we share and whose work we think is glorious. We love them, we point people to them, and we want you to know their names. None of these has endorsed The Glitter Standard and none of them owes us a thing. This is our list, not theirs. Anything official is announced as an official partner above, and only once it has been agreed.
Best Bar None
NUS
Wheely Good Reviews
Six Till Six
Stonewall
Purple Flag
British Institute of Innkeeping
Hopsy
ParaPride
Pride Canterbury
Attitude is Everything
Hidden Disabilities Sunflower
National Autistic Society
Euan's Guide
Equal Measures
Be Inclusive Hospitality
League Managers Association
Poppleston Allen
UniteVerse
UN Women UK
Galop
Switchboard
Samaritans
Terrence Higgins Trust
Gaydio
Accessible Events Show
National Pubwatch
Institute of Licensing
Gems CanterburyThe Glitter Standard is an inclusion layer, not another scheme. Best Bar None is the base. Ask for Angela is point nine of the Ten. Nothing you already run has to change.
Our sister brand, Glitterbomb, has run hundreds of LGBTQIA+ events in more than 25 cities since 2012. Every lesson in the Ten was learned on those nights, including the ones that went wrong. The party proves the badge and the badge protects the party. Booking a Glitterbomb event never earns a badge; only passing does.
Whoever and wherever you are. These appear on every Glittered poster.
Twenty minutes, no cost, no commitment. Tell us who you are and where you are and we will tell you what the route looks like.
Email hello@theglitterstandard.co.uk, or use the form and we will reply within two working days. One inbox for accreditation, partnerships, press and the Glitterbomb tour.