The award-winning Home Safe Collective is up and running again for this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Set up by a group of female and female-identifying comics, including comedians Angela Barnes, Sameena Zehra and Pauline Eyre to ensure that women (cis and trans), non-binary people and anyone who feels vulnerable can get a cab home safely during the Edinburgh Fringe.
Set up after the horrific murder of comedian Eurydice Dixon, last year the Collective raised over £5000 and won the Panel Prize at the Edinbugh Comedy Awards for their scheme.
The Home Save Collective has an account with fully insured taxi firm CityCabs – whose drivers are all police checked. The scheme runs until 30th August. In order to register with the scheme, please email homesafecollective@gmail.com. Once registered you will receive details of how to access the account that Home Safe Collective has set up with City Cabs in Edinburgh.
The Home Safe Collective urge all those whom the scheme is aimed at to register: “even if you are someone who can afford taxis. You never know when you might lose a purse or get stranded somewhere. It takes one email to register, even if you never need to use it. It’s a backup plan. Use it!”
You can donate the scheme here!
