Reclaim the Night is our annual campaign against sexual harassment and gender-based violence.
Each year, we take the streets to march for an end of sexual violence and ensure safety and autonomy for all women and marginalised genders in Manchester. Join us this year on Thursday, 21 November and march with us to Reclaim the Night!
Reclaim the Night 2024 key aims
🚍 Make student bus routes (142 & 111) 24 hours so that everyone can get home safely.
🌃 Ensure employers of students in the city guarantee safe transport home after late-night shifts.
🏳️⚧️ Make the women’s nighttime safety charter inclusive of trans people.
March route
The campaign culminates in a march, starting at the UoM Student’s Union, we’ll march down Oxford Road, through St Peter’s Square and finish at The Great Northern with a rally of influential speakers.
- March gathers from 6:30pm at the back of University of Manchester Students’ Union
- March leaves approx 7pm, turning left onto Oxford Road
- March makes its way along Oxford Road towards the City Centre
- At the top of Oxford Road march continues over the crossroads
- Passing McDonald’s, Wetherspoons and Turtle Bay
- March continues along Oxford Street and through St Peter’s Square
- Passing Manchester Central Library and The Midland Hotel
- March proceeds down Peter Street to The Great Northern, this year’s rally point
- Accessible route veers off just before Impossible bar, along Watson Street
- Stewards will be stationed to direct to the accessible route and viewing platform
- Rest of the march continues to past Impossible bar, turning left onto the bottom end of the Great Northern Square
- March congregates within the amphitheatre of Great Northern Square, approximately 8pm
- Approx 8pm-8:30pm rally speeches take place
- Approx 8:30pm-9pm rally ends and crowd disperses
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We hope to see you there!