Sexual Violence Awareness Week 2025
Posted on 21 January 2025
Sexual Abuse and Sexual Violence Awareness Week is an annual UK national week to raise awareness of sexual abuse and violence and to provide an opportunity for discussion around these issues.
This year, Sexual Abuse and Sexual Violence Awareness Week takes place from Monday 3 February to Sunday 9 February 2025.
Light Up the Night
Light Up the Night walk
Monday 3 February 2025
5-7pm
Greg's Place
Join us to Light Up the Night at Greg’s Place on Monday 3 February 2025. Starting at 5pm at Greg’s Place, we’ll hold a (battery-powered) candlelit walk around campus.
The route ends in Biology Atrium by 6pm, where hot drinks will be served, and where there will be an opportunity to learn more about the support provided by the University and local services. This space will be open until 7pm.
The event is free to attend, but please book a place, as spaces are limited.
Reserve your place at Light Up the Night
Film screening
'Black Box Diaries' screening
Thursday 6 February 2025
6.30-9pm
York Student Cinema
York Student Cinema are hosting an exclusive screening of ‘Black Box Diaries’ on Thursday 6 February, introduced by Survive's CEO, Mags Godderidge.
'Black Box Diaries' follows director and journalist Shiori Ito’s courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender. Unfolding like a thriller and combining secret investigative recordings, vérité shooting and emotional first-person video, Shiori's quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country’s desperately outdated judicial and societal systems.
Reserve your free place at the 'Black Box Diaries' screening
Support for students
Our Sexual Violence Liaison Officers aim to educate, raise awareness and support staff and students to start challenging and influencing conversations about sexual violence within our University community and wider society.
They also provide specialist support to University of York students who have been impacted in any way by sexual violence. This can involve a one-off information session or ongoing support around the impact of their experience.