The Evening Post’s Clubsafe campaign is set to reach thousands of new people thanks to a local shopping centre, which has added its weight to the scheme.

Posters are to be displayed at The Galleries Shopping Centre, Bristol, which has around 300,000 visitors each week.

All female staff at the centre are to be issued with a Clubsafe phonecard, entitling them to five minutes of free talk time and information will also be made available on the centre’s website and in its 100 retail outlets.

Centre director Colin Lang said: “This is the busiest inner city shopping centre in the South West and we want to do our bit for Clubsafe.

“A large proportion of our customers are young females. We want to put the publicity material where they will see it.”

ClubSafe was launched in August following the murders, within three years of one another, of Louise Smith, 18, and Jenny King, 22, as they walked home alone from nightclubs in Yate and Kingswood.

The aim of the campaign is to make it safer and easier for young women to get home after a night out, thanks to a series of personal safety pledges by nightclubs and taxi firms.

The initiatives include paying for taxi journeys in advance, nightclubs providing a free phone for lone females to call a cab and door staff being trained to look out for vulnerable females.

As part of the campaign free Clubsafe phonecards are available to all Evening Post readers and the newspaper has also been selling half price personal safety alarms.

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