Thursday 21-10-2021 - 17:19

The Sugarhouse will close next Wednesday night in solidarity with the “Girls Night In” boycott over drink spiking in nightclubs.

The Sugarhouse has always made the welfare of its customers its highest priority and so we fully support the aims of their campaign to highlight this topic and their calls for action.

The Sugarhouse will therefore be closed Wednesday on October 27th and will reopen as usual on Friday October 29th.

Instead of opening, we will run a training session for bar staff and security staff reinforcing the safety elements we have in place, and how to deal with any suspected cases of spiking.

Like ‘Girls Night In’ we believe all students have the right to feel safe on a night out. We already have a range of measures in place to counter spiking and look after our customers’ welfare and we will continue to work hard to ensure this doesn’t happen at The Sugarhouse and that it remains among the safest places to enjoy a night out.

We know that students may be disappointed to miss out on Wednesday night. But we are sure they share our concern over the issue of male violence and illegal acts like drink spiking or spiking by injection.

We would remind everyone that The Sugarhouse has a zero tolerance policy on this. Anyone caught spiking, or by our random searches will be reported to the police, and to the University, as well as being banned for life from our venue.

We hope next week’s national boycott will get the message out and we look forward to welcoming everyone back for a safe night out afterwards.