Safe Lodges
The safe lodges (green dot) scheme is an Oxford University Security Service (OUSS) initiative. Students in distress can go to the nearest lodge - not necessarily their own - and receive help and support.
How does this work?
From the street
Any student in distress can go into any lodge displaying a green dot
At the Lodge
Friendly welcome
Use of a telephone
Place of sanctuary
Support from the porters/lodge staff
Outcomes
The lodge can then call the student's home college, who will then take responsibility.
In serious cases the OUSS or police can be called.
Colleges signed up as Safe Lodges
All Souls
Balliol
Brasenose
Christchurch
Exeter
Green Templeton
Hertford
Jesus
Keble
Lady Margaret Hall
Linacre
Lincoln
Magdalen
Mansfield
Merton
New College
Oriel
Pembroke
Queen's
Regent's Park
Somerville
St Annes
St Catts
St Cross
St Edmund Hall
St Hilda's
St Hugh's
St Peters
St Johns
Trinity
University College
Wadham
Wolfson
Worcester