For students' unions
SU venues are where most students have their first nights out. The Standard accredits the venue, trains the team, recruits your members as Ambassadors, and gives your university dated, independent evidence for the duties it already has.
16 to 24 year olds identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual: 10.4% in 2023 and 8.0% in 2024, against around 1% of over 65s.
of LGBT students have hidden their identity at university for fear of discrimination.
of trans people were discriminated against in a cafe, bar or nightclub in the last year.
students report sexual harassment since entering higher education. Most incidents happened off campus.
students declares a disability; autistic student declarations more than doubled in five years.
students at UK providers. In most mid-sized cities the university is the night-time economy's biggest customer.
Sources on the evidence page.
Every bar and event space on one site under one SU fee. Published criteria, one level, the badge on the door and a place on the public map.
The 45-minute online module for every bar and events worker including student staff, unlimited seats, and the three-hour online Inclusion Lead course for your venue manager.
Ambassadors are recruited from LGBTQIA+, disabled students' and neurodivergent societies, trained, always in pairs, with their expenses paid. Your students test the town, not just the union.
Office for Students condition E6 requires providers to prevent and address harassment and sexual misconduct. An accredited SU venue with trained staff, incident logging and a displayed reporting route is auditable evidence for the return.
"I feel like I belong here", by group, for your venue and for the town. The first honest baseline of the welcome gap on your campus.
Glitterbomb, the touring LGBTQIA+ club night, plays accredited spaces. The badge moment, the confetti and the content pack are yours. Booking a night never earns a badge; only passing does.
We sign with the people who will still be there in September.
Your LGBT+ and disabled students' officers see the scope and the facilities position before anything else.
January to May, so the incoming team inherits a done deal.
The Ten evidenced, badge up for welcome week.
Random testing nights across the town, with your members in the pool.
However many venues are on campus, one fee for the whole union, everyone trained, unlimited seats.
The Glitterbomb offer. Book the Glitterbomb Club Night, £2,050 plus VAT with host, queens, DJ, confetti and full promotion, and the whole union's Glitter Standard accreditation for the year is £249 plus VAT instead of £495. The union keeps 100% of the door and the bar. The badge is still earned the same way: the six, the Ten, the evidence check and an unannounced visit.
Police and Crime Commissioner and Violence Reduction Unit budgets have funded exactly this kind of training elsewhere, and we will help you ask.
We never use the NUS name to promote The Glitter Standard and we never ask a union to change its own policies. The full price list is on the venues page; the facilities wording is on The StandardReadiness check.
Whoever and wherever you are. These appear on every Glittered poster.
Twenty minutes with the people who will sign it. Tell us which union and we will send the scope, the facilities position and the price before we talk.
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.
