{"id":967,"date":"2018-10-03T11:20:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T10:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/?p=967"},"modified":"2018-10-03T11:20:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T10:20:55","slug":"street-angels-guest-speaker-paul-blakey-mbe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/2018\/10\/03\/street-angels-guest-speaker-paul-blakey-mbe\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Angels &#8211; Guest speaker Paul Blakey MBE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday and Saturday nights see a transformation in many towns and cities across the UK as the pubs and clubs fill with people out for a good night out &#8211; but for some it will end in drunkenness, fights and possible sexual assault. Paul Blakey MBE witnessed what was happening in his hometown of Halifax in 2005 and decided to do something about it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_968\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-968\" style=\"width: 237px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/harrogate\/files\/2018\/10\/fullsizeoutput_42a0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-968\" src=\"\/harrogate\/files\/2018\/10\/fullsizeoutput_42a0-237x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/files\/2018\/10\/fullsizeoutput_42a0-237x300.jpeg 237w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/files\/2018\/10\/fullsizeoutput_42a0-768x973.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/files\/2018\/10\/fullsizeoutput_42a0-808x1024.jpeg 808w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/files\/2018\/10\/fullsizeoutput_42a0.jpeg 1616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Hilary tries on a life saving foil cape and hood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Paul was the guest speaker at our September meeting. He is the pioneer founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cninetwork.org\/streetangels.html\">Street Angels<\/a> and now the National Coordinator. Paul started the project in Halifax and following its amazing success has supported other towns to follow suit.\u00a0Paul works closely with the Police, Churches and other voluntary organisations identifying and supporting vulnerable people of all ages who run into difficulties on out local streets.\u00a0His success has also led to requests from music festivals such as the Leeds Festival to provide an ongoing support service throughout the festival and even night clubs such as Tiger Tiger have asked him to provide support.<\/p>\n<p>This mammoth undertaking requires thousands of committed volunteers working across all areas of the country. Volunteers are trained in Conflict Awareness, Drug &amp; Alcohol Awareness, First Aid, Dynamics of Town Centre Living, Anti -Terrorism, Refugees, Asylum seekers and the homeless.\u00a0 Once trained they are provided with distinctive street angel yellow jackets and a kit comprising of flip-flops, bottle of water, emergency thermal blankets, lollipops and spikies to stop people spiking drinks, all becoming useful in differing situations. We heard how flip-flops prevent foot injuries when the high heels are cast off and how lollipops quieten a rowdy situation. There is evidence that such action reduces violent crime and provides sanctuary for the vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Harrogate &amp; District Soroptimists Club and how to become a member visit sihandd@hotmail.co.uk.\u00a0Meetings are held at The White Hart hotel on the first and third Wednesday at 7:30pm<\/p>\n<p>#StreetAngels<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday and Saturday nights see a transformation in many towns and cities across the UK&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169,165],"tags":[170],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-meeting","category-speaker-meeting","tag-street-angels"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Street Angels - Guest speaker Paul Blakey MBE - SI Harrogate and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/2018\/10\/03\/street-angels-guest-speaker-paul-blakey-mbe\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Street Angels - Guest speaker Paul Blakey MBE - SI Harrogate and District\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Friday and Saturday nights see a transformation in many towns and cities across the UK...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/2018\/10\/03\/street-angels-guest-speaker-paul-blakey-mbe\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SI Harrogate and District\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-10-03T10:20:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/files\/2018\/10\/fullsizeoutput_42a0.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1616\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"2048\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"harrogate\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"harrogate\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/2018\/10\/03\/street-angels-guest-speaker-paul-blakey-mbe\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/2018\/10\/03\/street-angels-guest-speaker-paul-blakey-mbe\/\",\"name\":\"Street Angels - Guest speaker Paul Blakey MBE - SI Harrogate and District\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/2018\/10\/03\/street-angels-guest-speaker-paul-blakey-mbe\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/2018\/10\/03\/street-angels-guest-speaker-paul-blakey-mbe\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/files\/2018\/10\/fullsizeoutput_42a0.jpeg\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-10-03T10:20:55+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/#\/schema\/person\/71b923ddc5140b6cc149af47efb0061c\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/2018\/10\/03\/street-angels-guest-speaker-paul-blakey-mbe\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/2018\/10\/03\/street-angels-guest-speaker-paul-blakey-mbe\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/2018\/10\/03\/street-angels-guest-speaker-paul-blakey-mbe\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/files\/2018\/10\/fullsizeoutput_42a0.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/files\/2018\/10\/fullsizeoutput_42a0.jpeg\",\"width\":1616,\"height\":2048,\"caption\":\"President Hilary tries on a life saving foil cape and hood\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/2018\/10\/03\/street-angels-guest-speaker-paul-blakey-mbe\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Street Angels &#8211; 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