Built for clubs. By people who know clubs.
Safe Spaces launched in July 2026 in partnership with ClubsNSW and Campsie RSL Group, after a pilot with NSW clubs. Revesby Workers' Club has already folded it into staff onboarding, and more than 30 NSW clubs signed up at launch.
Our story
Learning for Good is an ACNC registered charity with DGR-1 status. We build learning that reaches the people who are usually left out of professional development budgets: casual staff, frontline workers, and volunteers.
We kept hearing the same thing from club managers. Their teams were seeing signs of domestic and family violence, and nobody had ever told them what to do with what they were seeing. The training that existed was written for social workers or for corporate offices, and it was priced out of reach for a single venue.
So we designed Safe Spaces around the club environment itself. Short modules that fit between shifts. Language that works at a bar, not in a case file. A manager pathway that goes further, because leadership carries different weight.
Then we piloted it inside real venues before making it available nationally, and made the introductory modules free so that budget never decides whether a staff member is prepared.
Three principles that shape the program.
Confidence over compliance
A tick box does not help someone at 11pm on a Friday. Presence does. Safe Spaces is built to leave staff feeling steady rather than certified and unsure.
We teach the small, human things that carry the most weight: noticing, staying calm, choosing words that do not escalate, and knowing when to step back and hand over.
A regular patron stops coming in with her partner and starts asking to be walked to her car. A trained staff member knows that is worth noticing, and knows what to do next.
Tools, not talk
Club floors are loud, busy, and unpredictable. Training designed for an office does not survive contact with a Saturday night trading peak.
Every module ends with something usable: a phrase, a pathway, a decision rule. Staff leave with actions, not theory.
A duty manager takes a disclosure at the bar. Instead of freezing, they move the conversation somewhere quieter and make a warm referral before the shift ends.
Turning trust into action
Clubs already hold something rare in Australian communities: familiarity. People come back weekly, often for years, and staff know their names.
Safe Spaces is built for the human on the floor, not for the audit trail. That trust becomes useful only when it is paired with knowing what to do.
A staff member who has poured someone's schooner for six years is often the safest person in that person's week to speak to first.
Arely Carrion
Subject matter expert
Arely leads curriculum design for Safe Spaces. Her work sits at the intersection of trauma-informed practice and adult learning, with a focus on people who respond to disclosures without a clinical background.
She has designed and facilitated DFV response training across community, education, and hospitality settings, and reviewed every module in this program for accuracy and safety.
Why clubs?
More than 13 million Australians are club members. Clubs are woven into the ordinary week of their communities in a way very few institutions still are: birthdays, wakes, Sunday lunches, Friday shifts.
That familiarity is trust currency. It is also why a club can be the first place someone lets something slip. Training turns that position into a safe response rather than an awkward one.
Partners and endorsements.
ClubsNSW
Safe Spaces is endorsed by ClubsNSW and offered to member clubs as part of their commitment to safer venues.
Campsie RSL Group
Development partner for the program, contributing venue insight through design and pilot.
ACNC registered
Learning for Good is registered with the ACNC and holds DGR-1 status. Check the charity register.
See what your team would learn.
Walk through the full curriculum, or talk to us about rolling it out across your venues.