Pagan Safeguarding Symposium |
Saturday 12th September 2026 10:00 - 18:00 |
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| Festival Hall St Dunstan's House Magdalene Street GLASTONBURY Somerset BA6 9EL |
| Promoting safety, respect, and wellbeing within Pagan communities and traditions We invite participant registration to attend a free one day event: Pagan Safeguarding Symposium - in collaboration with the UK Pagan Federation, Pagan and Heathen Symposium, and Police Pagan Association. This event will take place at Festival Hall, St Dunstan's House in Glastonbury on 12th September 2026, between 10am-6pm. The day will include keynote presentations from Sarah Kerr, President of the UK Pagan Federation on the topics of Safeguarding, Leadership and Inclusion within Pagan Communities, and Charlotte Pardy from the Police Pagan Association, on the Safer Spaces Community Partnership Pledge initiative developed in collaboration with many key Pagan organisations and groups around the United Kingdom. There will also be opportunities for other speakers to present, and a discussion panel for Pagan leaders, and support agency professionals and experts on these topics, in addition to breakout networking and community support and collaboration opportunities,. Light refreshments will be available at breaks throughout the day. We invite registration to attend a free one day Pagan Safeguarding Symposium - in collaboration with the UK Pagan Federation, Pagan and Heathen Symposium, and the Police Pagan Association, with keynote talks. Short talks by Pagan speakers from VAWG charities, probations, rehabilitation and prison services, Q&A discussion panel for professionals and experts, breakout discovery sessions to develop best practice, networking, community and collaboration. Light refreshments will be available throughout the day. Members of the Pagan community, Health, Social Care, Justice and VAWG Sector are welcome to attend, our speaker slots are now filled after extending the day to end at 6pm in order to accomodate additional contributions. Disclaimer: Speakers and panellists at the Pagan Safeguarding Symposium contribute in a personal and professional capacity. Their views and opinions are their own and should not be taken as representing the position of any other supporting partner organisation. This event has been funded by ESRC Impact Funding through SWDTP, for the public research dissemination launch of the SAVED PLACES framework - Spiritual Abuse, Violence, Exclusion, Domination - Pagan Leadership, Active Community Engagement, Support an intersectional model of influences, supports and intervention on Intimate Partner Violence and Spiritual Abuse among Pagans, developed over the course of PhD research by Bliss Qadesh, post graduate researcher at the Centre for Gender and Violence Research, Social Harm Crime and Violence Research Group, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. This venue is accessible to wheelchairs. Public Parking in the Abbey Car Park. Transport Links via Castle Cary Train Station and Taxi or First Bus 376, Berry's or National Express Coach Travel. |
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