SOAS SU's Welfare Contacts are students who are trained in Bystander Intervention. They are present during late night events in the SOAS SU Bar in order to provide additional support to students.
You can find them during events wearing Enough is Enough t-shirt and a high-vis lanyard.
They are seperate from security, their role is to provide non-judgemental wellbeing support to students and to intervene during incidents of problematic behaviour. They are not there to have you removed from the event, if you are asked to leave they can offer support (if needed) e.g. if you had too much to drink, security could ask you to leave the event but a Welfare Contact may offer to wait with you until you had sobered up more, so you can get home safer.
If they intervene during an incident (e.g. sexual harassment/violence, severe intoxication, a argue/fight) they may ask the students if they would be willing to create an incident report, so that their is a record of the incident having taken place later on if it becomes relevent to an investigation or disciplinary process. Students details are only included with their consent, and these reports are kept confidential between relevent staff members