Anonymous, 12, 1992 This was just the first instance but it has stayed with me. On a school trip some older boys cornered me, pushed me & touched me. Since then there has been men thinking they can touch, grab & worse. Even now at 45 men still think they can grab &...
29, 2025 I had a handyman come round to do a couple of jobs in my new home. I stayed downstairs whilst on the laptop, and from the top of the stairs anytime he had a question or needed help, he would shout ‘babe’, ‘hun’ and it made me feel uncomfortable because I didn’t know this man...
14 I went to school here. Shortly after a boy in my year messaged me and asked me out, he attempted to rape me in a nearby park. I reported it to the school and no safeguarding measures were put in place, they didn’t even pull him into the office for a conversation as he was good at music...
20, 2025 I was waiting for the bus with my boyfriend. A man who appeared to be homeless, sat on the floor behind us outside a shop, asked me for change and I smiled and apologised, saying I wasn’t carrying any. He made a few lighthearted comments that I couldn’t really hear...
Megan, 40, 21/9/25
[Man] in white BMW, acting weird, asking for sexual favours.
Aged 18, Sept 2025
When I was in [a nightclub] I was getting touched inappropriately. When I asked them to stop it made it worse and when I informed the doormen – they didn’t seem to care at all!
2016, Aged 18:
I had finished at a birthday party and was waiting outside for a friend to pick me up. My friend’s family member came to give me a hug and began to pick me up and put his hand up my skirt. Thankfully my friend had just arrived in the car so the man stopped.
Aged 20: I was at the counter of a shop I used to go into regularly. I was catching up with the boss, telling him that my new job was selling items like gold, silver, clocks, etc inc vintage toys. He then said his friend had a company selling toys. He then asked if I’d used the toys on...
Aged 17, Jan 2019: I was at a friend’s birthday party and was sat chatting with my best friend at a table. The birthday girl’s dad was stood next to the table and decided to lean over to me and put his tongue in my mouth. I was trying to get him off me and it was only until me and...
Sarah, aged 37, Friday 15th August 2025 I was walking home alone from a friend’s house when a car pulled up beside me on East Park Drive. The driver honked the horn, but when I didn’t respond, they quickly sped off. This isn’t the first time something like this has happened to me —...
Aged 17, 2025 Me (17) and a friend (15) were sat near [a bar] in Blackpool, when a much older man (about 50) came up and sat opposite us. He insisted that he should have a drink out of our cups, despite having a drink himself. He proceeded to make many comments about us being beautiful...
Harriet, aged 17, 2025 I was on the number 42 bus going towards Blackpool town centre when a drunk man got onto the bus and noticed me after he sat down. He got so close to me that he spilt his beer down my legs and I could feel his eyes darting towards my face and down my clothes. He...
October 2024 – May 2025 I was unfortunate enough to be working at the Bar during the Young Farmers event. Not only has this venue shown continuous lack of care for the staff and complete ignorance to the issues that they create, but they were heavily unprepared for this weekend...
Lucy Aged 18, 2020 Met with a guy for some drinks in town (Fleetwood), he seemed really nice and we’d met up a few time before so he wasn’t a stranger. I’m working early the next day and it’s starting to get dark, so I tell him I’d best get home. I wasn’t at all drunk, I’d had maybe 2 or...
Suzie M. Aged 27, 1979 I was standing outside the store with a loft ladder purchase waiting for my husband to drive around to pick me up. Up to half a dozen Scottish men (the prom was really busy and it was very hot – I believe it was known as Scots week) came up to me and began...