FFS, or Friendly Festivals in Scotland, is a campaign to get all Scottish music festivals to display zero tolerance anti-sexual violence policies on their websites, as a commitment to the safety of people attending. Policies like this are a first step to addressing the fact that 1 in 5 women will experience sexual assault or harassment at a music festival. Nearly half of female festival goers (43%) under 40 say they have faced unwanted sexual behaviour at a music festival.
FFS have compiled a dataset – created by three Scottish grassroots feminist organisations. These three groups are POWA Scotland, Fanny Riot , and Popgirlz – which shows which music festivals in Scotland display an anti-sexual harassment & violence policy on their website.
You can view the data set here.
Features and benefits of friendlyfests.com include:
- Raising awareness for the need for standardised safeguarding and prevention at Scottish music festivals
- Create a dataset in an accessible format for the public to view
- Highlight the link between level of sexual assaults happening at music festivals, and lack of formal prevention
For more information, please visit friendlyfests.com/about
