One company with four arms, built on twenty years in the rooms that run the night: school assemblies, venue floors, licensing committees and Parliament.
Each arm stands on its own. Together they cover the whole journey, from a young person learning to look after their friends to the policy that decides when the venue closes.
UNight Schools
Safety education for Years 11, 12 and 13, colleges and universities: alcohol, spiking, consent, Ask for Angela and getting home safely. One talk for each year, delivered by someone who has run the night and mapped to RSHE.
Our websites arm. A proper website, a Google Business profile, a work email address and help with reviews, set up in about a week and looked after every month. The Open Sign built this site.
Public affairs and communications
Political advice, public affairs, PR and marketing. We work out who needs to hear what, get you in the room with MPs, councils and regulators and make the message land.
Night-time safety and licensing
Campaigning for safer nights out, backed by the evidence that changes decisions: night-time economy assessments, licensing evidence and expert witness work for hearings and appeals.
A national brand wanted later trading in London’s busiest late-night district, inside a cumulative impact area with objections on the table. We were part of the team that built the evidence case: night-time economy context, precedent mapping, dispersal analysis and the safety and welfare argument the licensing objectives actually turn on.
The method repeats. Find the revenue trapped behind an early close, then win the hours with evidence rather than assertion.
Representing the night-time economy with MPs and ministers, from the APPG circuit to the committee room. Four years as an elected councillor means we know how a decision gets made and who makes it.
Talk to us about adviceOne for each year, growing with the student: having fun as safely as you can, going out as safely as you can, then adult freedoms and adult responsibilities. Notes for staff and parents and RSHE mapping come with every booking.
See the programmesTutors, coaches, wedding suppliers and this site. Each one built to be found on Google, quick on a phone and easy to look after.
See the workNight-time safety, licensing and the policy behind both. Plain English from people who still work the nights.
Most people know the phrase. Far fewer staff know what to do next. What a working Ask for Angela scheme looks like and a test you can run on your next shift.
Night safetyTwo tiers, four procedures and a deadline that is closer than it looks. A plain-English guide to the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 for venues.
LicensingThe November 2025 framework shifted the ground under every late-hours application. What it says, what it means for operators and where it does not help.
Policy forums, Westminster receptions, student venues at midnight and high streets on a Friday. Showing up is most of the job.
Photographs show Matthew at industry events, awards ceremonies, receptions and delivery. Other people pictured are fellow attendees, guests and colleagues. Their appearance does not imply any endorsement of UNight U.K. Ltd or its services.
UNight is led by Matthew Jones-Roberts, its director. He started as a youth worker in Medway and Kent, served four years as an elected councillor at Canterbury City Council and has spent more than a decade on the front line of the night-time economy, from venue floors and festival sites to Westminster.
That mix is the point. The same person can run a session with Year 12s in the morning, sit with a licensing team in the afternoon and make the case to an MP in the evening and be believed in all three rooms.
Member of the Institute of Licensing. Connect with Matthew on LinkedIn
Advocates, deliverers, standards and causes. The organisations we recommend to clients and are proud to stand alongside.
Six Till Six(opens in a new tab)
Poppleston Allen(opens in a new tab)
Ask for Angela(opens in a new tab)
Best Bar None(opens in a new tab)
Hopsy(opens in a new tab)
UN Women UK(opens in a new tab)
Kent Invicta Chamber(opens in a new tab)
Institute of Licensing(opens in a new tab)
BII(opens in a new tab)
National Pub Watch(opens in a new tab)
ATCM(opens in a new tab)
Cask Marque(opens in a new tab)
CAMRA(opens in a new tab)
The LMA(opens in a new tab)Endorsement on this page runs one way. These are organisations whose values we respect and believe align with our own and whose work we rate and recommend. Their appearance here does not imply that they endorse UNight U.K. Ltd in return. Each scheme and organisation named remains independent and owned by its respective organisation.
Anything else, ring or email and we will tell you straight.
Four things. UNight Schools teaches night-time safety to schools, sixth forms, colleges and universities. The Open Sign builds and looks after websites and Google profiles for small businesses. We give public affairs, political, PR and marketing advice to organisations that need to be heard. And we campaign for a safer night-time economy, with the assessments and licensing evidence to back it up.
Yes. The Open Sign is a trading name of UNight U.K. Ltd and our websites arm. It has its own site at theopensign.co.uk and it built this one.
From £175 plus VAT for a single session and £300 plus VAT for a double session in one visit. A whole Safe Nights Day runs from £750 to £1,000 plus VAT. The UNight Schools site has the full detail and a quote form.
Yes. We prepare evidence packs and give expert evidence in support of licensing applications, hearings and appeals, grounded in the licensing objectives and the National Licensing Policy Framework. Where a matter needs solicitors and counsel we work alongside them as the sector experts rather than in their place.
Schools, colleges and universities. Small and local businesses. Hospitality operators, national brands and franchisees. Councils, BIDs, police teams and licensing solicitors. Campaigns, charities and community interest companies. If someone else is the better answer for you, we will say so and make the introduction.
Thirty minutes with Matthew Jones-Roberts, our director, on a Thursday between 10am and 2pm. No charge and no pitch. Bring the problem and we will work out together whether there is something worth doing. If there is not, we will tell you that too.
A school programme, a website, a message that needs to land or a licence that needs winning. The first conversation is free and usually clarifies more than you expect.
Based in the South East and London, working across the UK and worldwide. Or find us on LinkedIn.
Thirty minutes with Matthew on a Thursday between 10am and 2pm. No charge and no pitch. We confirm by email, usually the same day.