What is Enough is Enough

Find out about what the project does and it's history at SOAS
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Enough is Enough is a campaign which tackles issues around sexual and gender based violence. We provide consent workshops for all incoming students, and run a welfare contact program which trains students to be active bystanders and aims to create a culture of consent on campus and beyond. 

The campaign is responsible for:  

Raising awareness of SGBV on campus & educating students about consent  

Making the reporting systems and support available at SOAS accessible to those who need them 

Understanding the structures that uphold a ‘rape culture’ and how this perpetuates SGBV on campus  

Giving students the tools to create a ‘consent culture’ on campus and in their lives off campus 

 

History of Enough is Enough 

In the academic year 2013/14, a Union General Meeting motion was passed in support of the National Union of Students campaign ‘I heart consent’ which the SOAS Student Union team then developed into the ‘Enough is Enough’ campaign. In 2015/16 the SOAS Board of Trustees agreed to funding across 5 years for the SU to deliver mandatory consent workshops for all SOAS students. A total of £65,000 over 5 years was agreed to fund this work. In 2021/22 the University agreed further funding for an additional three years. 

Meet the team

Enough is Enough is led by SU staff members and the Welfare Contact Team.

Farrah Black - Enough is Enough Project Coordinator

Diya Rattanpal - SU Senior Advisor

Hamayal Zaib – Co President for Equality and Liberation

Welfare Contacts are student staff members who are trained to deliver the consent workshops, work during late licenses to provide wellbeing support and act as an active bystander and facilitate Enough is Enough events and campaigns.
Welfare Contacts

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

 

2024/25 Impact Report

We have a report of the impact the consent workshops have had on students new to SOAS for the 2024/2025 year.

This is the first of this level of detail, and something we hope to continue for the forseeable to continuously evidence the importance of this work, as well as to support the future evolution of the project by recording which approaches wo

You can read the full impact report here: PDF-EIE-2024-IMPACT-REPORT
Campaigns

Enough is Enough runs occasional campaigns across the university, aiming to bring awareness and spark conversation around different SGBV related issues.

2024 EDI Collaboration

Across the end of February and beginning of March they worked with the university EDI team and Sabbatical Officer team on a Gender Based Violence Awareness Campaign, designed to coincide with the end of LGBTQ+ History Month and beginning of Women’s History Month.

It involved watch-a-long film screenings of the 2014 film ‘Pride’ about the true story of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) who raised money in support of Welsh Miners striking against Thatcher's government, and greatly impacted queer rights in the UK.

We also watched the 2017 film ‘Battle Of The Sexes’, which follows the true story of Billie Jean King and her historic 1973 match against Bobby Riggs and her fight for women’s tennis players to be paid and rewarded equally to men.

We also ran liberation themed arts and crafts sessions, as well as book club discussions on ‘Life a a Unicorn’ by Amrou Al-Kadhi, an autobiography of a Muslim drag queen. We also discussed ‘Girl, Woman, Other’ by Bernardine Evaristo, a fictional novel that follows 12 women in the UK across several decades and explores how race, sexuality, gender, and history intersect with their experiences differently.

 

2025 Sexual Violence Awareness Month

Throughout April 2025 we'll be supporting Sexual Violence Awareness month.

Since many students will be away over Easter break, a lot will be planned online in the hopes of bringing the rise of Sexual Violence in the UK to students focus.

But we will also have in-person action happening on campus, with a focus on holding open conversations and improving people's awareness of how they can keep themselves safe, and what support and reporting services are availible to them.

Sexual violence should never happen, yet instances are increasing and there is so much to be done. At the heart of the Enough is Enough project is to prevent sexual gender based violence through education, but we also want to ensire all students know what options are availible to them if ever experience sexual violence.

 

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