A Student Guide to Night Out Safety
Freshers’ week, student social nights, cheap drinks and last minute plans. Nights out are one of the best parts of being a student: catching up with friends, meeting new people, and making memories you will keep for years. But when it gets late, your phone dies or goes missing, you lose your friends, or you are not sure where you are, a night out can quickly turn worrying.
Here are a few student night out safety tips to help you stay safe while still enjoying yourself.
Share Your Plan Before You Go Out
Before you head out, let a housemate or trusted friend know what the night looks like:
- Where you are going (club, bar or pub)
- Who you are going with
- Roughly when you expect to be home
- How you plan to get home (taxi, walk or bus)
If the plan changes while you are out, try to update the person you told. That way, if you are not back near the expected time, they have a good idea of where you are and who you are with, which makes checking on you much easier.
Set Up a My Home Call Account Before You Head Out
Most student nights out do not go wrong because of something dramatic. It is the small stuff: your phone dies, you lose it, it gets stolen, or you get separated from your mates. That is exactly where My Home Call fits in.
Set it up in advance by adding your trusted contacts, such as housemates, friends or parents. Then, if your phone runs out of battery or disappears, you can still send a quick pre-set message and your location from any nearby phone, whether that is a mate’s phone, a venue phone, or someone’s phone in the takeaway queue. It is a safety net for the moments when your own phone cannot do its job, but you still need someone to know you are okay.
It takes under five minutes to set up the free version of the app, and you can see how it works in a few simple steps.
Charge Your Phone Before You Leave
Every student has spotted their battery sitting below 10% just as they are heading out the door. A few habits make that far less likely:
- Charge your phone while getting ready or at pre-drinks
- Bring a small portable charger for the night
- Turn on low power mode to preserve battery while you are out
- Close battery draining apps, and switch to airplane mode if you do not need signal for a while
Student Night Out Safety: The Quick Checklist
Before you leave, run through the basics:
- Tell someone your plan, and update them if it changes
- Charge your phone and pack a portable charger
- Set up My Home Call so you can reach home from any phone
- Agree a meeting point with your friends in case you get separated
- Keep some cash and a back up way to get home
About My Home Call
My Home Call is a UK built biometric safety platform. Any registered My Home Call account holder on a free or paid plan can reach their saved contacts from any borrowed device, without needing their own phone, without remembering numbers, and without exposing personal contact details.
Because it works from any device, anywhere, My Home Call is there whenever your own phone is not: dead, lost, forgotten or stolen, on a night out, on the way home, or anywhere in between.
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