Go Green For Safeguarding Adults Week

This November, organisations across the country will light their buildings up green to support Safeguarding Adults Week.

Safeguarding Adults Week 2025 takes place 17 – 21 November. The week is coordinated by safeguarding charity The Ann Craft Trust, and it’s an opportunity for organisations across the country to come together to raise awareness of important safeguarding issues.

The Ann Craft Trust works closely with The University of Nottingham. Each year, The University show their support for Safeguarding Adults Week by lighting up their Trent building in green. In 2024, Cumbria Safeguarding Adults Board arranged for various buildings, including Carlisle’s Citadel Building, to be lit up green.

Now The Ann Craft Trust is calling on organisations across the country to show their commitment to safeguarding adults through Going Green for Safeguarding Adults Week.

How Do I Go Green For Safeguarding Adults Week?

If you cannot light up your premises, there are other ways you can go green for Safeguarding Adults Week:

  • Wear green clothes throughout the week
  • Paint your face green
  • Make green meals – salad, jelly, or smoothies

However you choose to go green, you can share your efforts directly with The Ann Craft Trust, or you can post to your social media platforms using the hashtag #SafeguardingAdultsWeek.

Why Green?

The Ann Craft Trust logo is green, and the charity makes prominent use of greens on all of their resources, training materials, and publications.

But if anyone asks you – why green? Just tell them that you’re giving people the green light to talk about safeguarding.

Many people seem reluctant to discuss many vital safeguarding issues. Going green could indicate that you’re willing to talk – and to listen.

Safeguarding Adults Week – A Focus on Prevention

The theme for Safeguarding Adults Week 2025 is Prevention.

Ann Craft Trust CEO Stuart Sale said:

“Usually, when people talk about “safeguarding”, they are talking about the policies and procedures we might put into place to respond to concerns of abuse, or to minimise the risk of a person being harmed or abused again. They are also talking about the lessons we might learn from past cases of abuse.

“It’s time to change the conversation.

“It’s important to learn the right lessons when things go wrong. But it is much better to prevent abuse from occurring in the first place than it is to respond to instances of harm, neglect, and isolation.

“Throughout the week, we’re encouraging people to take a closer look at their approach to prevention. We want individuals and organisations to ensure that prevention is embedded in their policies and procedures.

“As well as discussing some key safeguarding topics, we will also be sharing stories of instances where early intervention has helped to avoid the crisis point.

“We need the courage and the confidence to act on our instincts, and to speak up when something feels wrong. And we need to build resilient communities in which people know their rights and responsibilities and understand what to do the moment they have concerns.”

About The Ann Craft Trust’s Safeguarding Adults Week

Launched in 2018, Safeguarding Adults Week is a time for organisations to come together to raise awareness of important safeguarding issues.

2024’s Safeguarding Adults Week saw:

  • 1,600 individual accounts sharing and interacting with Safeguarding Adults Week content online (a rise of 18% over the previous year)
  • Free learning delivered to over 1,400 people
  • 23,000 views of our Safeguarding Adults Week educational content

You can watch a short video summarising some of the activity that took place across the UK here.

We believe that working in partnerships allows us to share our knowledge of safeguarding, learn from others and ultimately create safer cultures.

During Safeguarding Adults Week 2025, we’ll be collaborating with our partners to explore a different safeguarding theme each day. You can learn more about this year’s themes here.

The Ann Craft Trust’s annual Safeguarding Adults Conference will take place in Nottingham in the middle of Safeguarding Adults Week on Wednesday 19 November. You can view the full programme here.

If you have any questions about Safeguarding Adults Week, you can contact ann-craft-trust@nottingham.ac.uk.