Havering Nightlife Awards
The Havering Nightlife Awards are in partnership with Best Bar None.
The awards recognise those town centre businesses that demonstrate outstanding achievement in providing a welcoming safe and enjoyable night time environment for customers through good management and practice and an active commitment to discouraging anti-social behaviour.
The last awards were in 2018.
The 2018 winners
Night Life Awards Public Vote Winners
Winner of Best Restaurant Award
Tandoori Lounge
Winner of Best Takeaway Award
McDonald’s
Winner of Best Customer Care Award
The Fatling
Winner of Best Live Act Venue
The Fatling
Winner of Best Entertainment venue
Brookside Theatre
Winner of Best Family Venue
Namco Funscape
Winner of Night Time Venue
Atik
Winner of Best After Work Venue
The Retailery
Winner of the Heart of the Community Award
The Goose
Safe and Sound Special Awards
Safe and Sound Award for outstanding contribution to the night time economy
Colin Wells, McDonald’s Romford
Safe and Sound Award for outstanding support to the night time economy
Romford Town Centre Team A
Safe and Sound Award for outstanding support to the night time economy
Romford Town Centre Team B
How the 2018 awards worked
Best Bar None Award
This was for licensed premises (pubs, clubs and bars) only.
Venues that entered these categories needed to complete an application form and were visited by a panel of judges.
The panel was made up of representatives from the Police, Local Authority, Fire Brigade and Transport for London.
Public vote
The 9 remaining awards were open for public nomination.
The categories for 2018 were:
- Best Night Time Venue
- Best After Work Venue
- Best Restaurant
- Best Family Venue
- Best Takeaway Service
- Best Customer Service
- Best Entertainment Venue
- Best Live Act Venue
- Best Community Venue
Background to the Havering Nightlife Awards
Romford is well known for its busy night-time economy with a large mix and choice of pubs, clubs and bars.
This attracts a vast amount of visitors, including an estimate of around 11,000 18 to 25-year-olds visiting the town centre on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.
Attracting such a large concentration of people each weekend has not been without some challenges.
The Havering Community Safety Partnership (HCSP) in partnership with local businesses has taken proactive steps to reduce both crime and the fear of crime, directly addressing residents’ concerns.
A range of innovative measures have been introduced, including:
- a Taxi Marshall scheme that manages the swift and safe dispersal of visitors from the town centre at night
- the Street Pastors scheme
- the formation of a Safe & Sound partnership (Romford, Hornchurch pubwatch).
- Banned from One Banned from All
- Eds Place (A Safe Haven)
- Caught Out Kept Out Scheme (Fake ID)
- the Drugs Dog Initiative
The joined up approach to managing the night time economy has resulted in recognition not just nationally but internationally, most recently receiving the 2017 National Pubwatch Award.