Event
EmilyTest GBV Charter England Launch Webinar
Date and Time
Book NowThursday, 21 May 2026 - Thursday, 21 May 2026
About this event
We’re pleased to share that EmilyTest is hosting a free webinar to officially launch the GBV Charter for Universities in England!
EmilyTest is a charity committed to improving Gender-Based Violence (GBV) prevention, intervention and support at universities and colleges throughout the UK and Ireland. EmilyTest was set up in memory of Emily Drouet, an 18-year-old student who was subjected to a sustained campaign of GBV from a fellow student and later took her own life.
In 2021, EmilyTest launched the world’s first GBV Charter for colleges and universities in Scotland. The EmilyTest Charter is made up of five principles and a set of Minimum Standards, co-created with students, graduates, further and higher education staff, and violence against women and girls professionals from across the UK. The Charter’s Minimum Standards draw upon the failures and learnings from Emily’s story, student and staff needs, as well as existing work including the Scottish Government’s Equally Safe in Higher Education Toolkit.
Following a successful pilot in 2025 with five universities across England to adapt the GBV Charter framework to the English university context, the initiative is now being expanded more widely.
The webinar will offer further information about the GBV Charter, its connection to the Office for Students’ E6 regulations, and how EmilyTest can support institutions to strengthen their prevention, intervention, and support responses to gender-based violence.