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Make Some Noise — A National Women's Safety Campaign
Violence against women and girls remains at crisis levels in the UK. One in three women worldwide has experienced physical or sexual violence. In the UK, a call relating to domestic abuse reaches police every thirty seconds. Too many women adapt their entire lives — their routes, their clothing, their timing, their behaviour — simply to feel safer. That adaptation is not freedom. It is survival.
Kulturalism launched the Make Some Noise campaign in direct response to this reality. The campaign encourages women to use their voice — to interrupt harm, draw attention, and be heard. It provides practical safety guidance, raises awareness of legal rights, and builds a community of women who refuse to stay silent about the risks they face every day.
Make Some Noise has reached over 25,000 women organically — without advertising, without a marketing budget, and without institutional backing. It is entirely community driven. And it is growing.
The campaign sits alongside Kulturalism's original research — Why Women Change Everything to Stay Safe — which documents the everyday strategies women use to reduce risk and which informed Kulturalism's formal advocacy to government on the implementation of the Protection from Sex-based Harassment in Public Act 2023.
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Break the Violence
Break the Violence is Kulturalism's HE Voice campaign addressing one of the most persistent and destructive patterns in our communities — male violence. The campaign does not lecture or condemn. It asks the question most people refuse to ask — why does this happen — and answers it honestly, with evidence, without excusing what cannot be excused.
Drawing on peer-reviewed research from leading journals including PubMed, The Lancet, and Frontiers in Psychiatry, Break the Violence examines the biology, psychology, childhood experience, cultural conditioning, and substance use that together explain — without justifying — why some men become violent. It addresses the cycle that runs through generations, the damage that culture and social media inflict on young men's understanding of masculinity, and the evidence that change is genuinely possible with the right support.
Break the Violence exists because Kulturalism believes that ending violence against women requires us to understand what drives it — and to have that conversation directly with the men who need to hear it most. The campaign is growing. New content, resources, and research are being added regularly.
Calling on Government to Act on Women's Safety
In October 2025, Kulturalism's Director wrote formally to the Right Honourable Dame Diana Johnson DBE MP, Minister for Crime, Policing and Fire, on an issue of urgent national importance. The Protection from Sex-based Harassment in Public Act 2023 — legislation that specifically criminalises sex-based harassment in public spaces — had received Royal Assent in September 2023 but remained unimplemented more than two years later. Without the statutory guidance required to bring it into force, police and courts could not use it.
Kulturalism's letter set out five specific recommendations — immediate commencement of the Act, statutory guidance for police with practical examples of the offence, mandatory trauma-informed officer training, clear CPS prosecution guidance to prevent cases being downgraded, judicial training on the social context of harassment, and a national public information campaign so survivors know their rights. The letter was copied to the Police and Crime Commissioners Association, the College of Policing, and the CPS Policy Directorate.
Every day this Act remains unimplemented is a day women are denied the protection Parliament promised them.
Exposing a Systemic Data Gap
Children in Custody and County Lines
In November 2025, Kulturalism submitted a detailed Freedom of Information request to the Ministry of Justice seeking data on children held in Young Offender Institutions, Secure Training Centres, and Secure Children's Homes where county lines drug supply was a factor in their offending. We also sought data on the application of the Section 45 Modern Slavery Act 2015 defence — the statutory protection that should prevent exploited children from being convicted for crimes they were coerced into committing.
The Ministry of Justice's response confirmed what Kulturalism suspected — that county lines exploitation is not recorded as a parameter in youth custody data systems. The government cannot identify how many children in custody were exploited through county lines. It cannot count them, track them, or measure whether the Section 45 defence is being applied to protect them.
That is not a minor administrative gap. It is a systemic failure with life-changing consequences for some of the most vulnerable young people in the country. Kulturalism has published this finding and will continue to press for the data infrastructure that exploited children deserve.
The CPS Cannot Track Whether Exploited Children Are Protected
Following the MoJ response, Kulturalism submitted a refined Freedom of Information request to the Crown Prosecution Service in December 2025 seeking confirmation of whether Section 45 MSA consideration is recorded in CPS case management systems. The CPS confirmed in January 2026 that there is no field, flag, or prompt for Section 45 MSA consideration in its systems. Any consideration of the defence is recorded only within individual case files and can only be identified by manual review.
In practical terms this means the statutory protection designed to prevent the prosecution of exploited children is invisible to the system prosecuting them. There is no mechanism for the CPS to know how often it is being applied, how often it is being missed, or whether children who should be protected are instead being convicted.
Kulturalism has documented this finding as part of its ongoing county lines advocacy work and will be publishing a briefing setting out the full implications for youth justice policy.
The Community Trigger
Anti-social behaviour can destroy lives. When it is persistent, serious, and met with institutional inaction, it strips people of their sense of safety and belonging in their own home. Kulturalism submitted a Community Trigger on behalf of a community whose concerns had spanned years and been repeatedly dismissed or inadequately addressed by the relevant authorities.
The case spanned more than nine months from trigger to resolution. Kulturalism's involvement ensured the case was formally escalated, documented, and progressed through the correct statutory channels. The submission drew on FOI data showing a significant gap between the volume of reported incidents and the number formally recorded by the responsible agencies — evidence of a systemic recording failure with direct consequences for the community affected.
Kulturalism has filed a Parliamentary submission examining the Community Trigger process, the adequacy of institutional responses to anti-social behaviour, and the impact on communities where trust in authorities is already fragile.
We will publish the submission in full on this site.
Challenging Unlawful Surveillance
Kulturalism filed a formal complaint on behalf of affected residents against a registered social housing provider operating a supported living development. The complaint identified two independent legal failures at the site.
A CCTV camera mounted at gutter height on the exterior of the building commands a wide field of view directly opposite private residential properties, capturing front entrance doors, the public footpath, a communal green area, and the daily movements of neighbours, care professionals, and members of the public including children — with no CCTV signage, no documented lawful basis, and no Data Protection Impact Assessment. A site visit confirmed the absence of any signage — an ongoing criminal breach of the ICO Surveillance Camera Code of Practice.
The complaint also addresses the open palisade fencing along the boundary between the site and neighbouring residential properties — a boundary treatment that provides no meaningful privacy screening despite constant vehicular and pedestrian traffic from multiple care providers operating throughout the day and night. Window coverings belonging to residents have been removed, leaving vulnerable adults with learning and physical disabilities getting dressed visible from the public footpath.
The complaint is grounded in UK GDPR, the Human Rights Act 1998, the Care Act 2014, the ICO Surveillance Camera Code of Practice, and the National Planning Policy Framework. If the provider fails to respond adequately, Kulturalism will refer the matter to the Information Commissioner's Office, the Regulator of Social Housing, the relevant local authority adult safeguarding team, and planning enforcement.
Current and Forthcoming Advocacy
Kulturalism's advocacy work is continuous. Upcoming, we are writing to the relevant local authority calling for improved street lighting on a public footpath regularly used by members of the public to access local shops. The route is currently unlit, creating unnecessary and avoidable risk — particularly for women, older people, and vulnerable individuals travelling after dark. Safer streets sometimes simply mean better lit ones.
We are also writing to the Police and Crime Commissioner calling for greater accountability, transparency, and community trust in policing — drawing on evidence that in high crime areas, institutional failures erode the community confidence that drives reporting and ultimately reduces crime. The two are inseparable. An apology costs nothing. The absence of one costs communities everything.
In addition, Kulturalism is preparing a formal recommendation to the Minister for Crime, Policing and Fire, the College of Policing, the National Police Chiefs' Council, and the telecommunications providers responsible for 999 call handling, on a critical gap in current Silent Solution guidance. The existing advice to press 55 during a 999 call — while well intentioned — may in the most dangerous domestic abuse scenarios cause greater harm than staying silently on the line. When a victim cannot move their hands, cannot look at their phone, and cannot make any sound without risking detection, pressing a button may be impossible or dangerous. Kulturalism is calling for updated guidance that reflects the reality of the most extreme situations victims face — and that gives operators clearer protocols for responding to silent calls without requiring any physical action from the victim.
Finally, Kulturalism is preparing a submission to the Home Secretary and the Home Affairs Select Committee on the proposed abolition of Police and Crime Commissioners. Our position is principled and evidence-based. The PCC model, while imperfect, provides an independent layer of democratic accountability between communities and their police force. PCCs fund local groups, support community safety initiatives, and provide a mechanism for public scrutiny that sits outside the council structure. Abolishing PCCs and transferring their functions to local councils would not be a simplification — it would be a dangerous consolidation of power within institutions that are already under-resourced, and driven by their own budget priorities. Councils are not independent of local political interests. They are not equipped to hold police forces to account in the way a dedicated, independent commissioner can.
The rule of law requires that no single institution holds unchecked power. Kulturalism's own Community Trigger case demonstrates this directly — when one institution fails, having another with independent authority to escalate matters is what delivers accountability for communities. Remove that independence and you remove the mechanism for communities to be heard when the system fails them. No institution should be above scrutiny. That principle must be protected — not dismantled in the name of efficiency.