1 March 2022
Dear Members,
At the Manila Polo Club, we take our mission to provide a safe and secure second home to our Members and their families to heart. All these years, we stayed true to this promise by upholding our core values: privacy, respect, integrity, diversity, and excellence, thereby providing our Members a venue that is safe enough to be considered an extension of their homes.
Your Club is a family-oriented venue that stands as a safe gender-sensitive environment for our community members of all ages. We would like to remind everyone that we do not condone any acts that compromise the Club’s principles.
In this regard, we enjoin everyone read thru the guidelines below authored by the House committee:
Guided by the Club’s mission of being a second home and sanctuary for members and their families, the Club following approval by its Board, upon the recommendation of the House Committee, adopts the Safe Space Policy set out below.
The said policy shall form part of the Club’s House Rules, particularly, Art. II, Sec. 1, thus:
1.28 The Club is a Safe Space – MPC provides a safe and gender-sensitive environment that values the dignity and well-being of all persons in our community.
A. What is a Safe Space?
A safe space is one that reflects our Club’s best values and promotes well-being in each member of our community. It increases self-esteem and self-confidence in everyone within the Club. A safe space promotes positive relationships within a mutually respectful environment. All persons at the Club are responsible for keeping it a safe, caring, respectful and inclusive space.
B. What is well-being?
Well-being refers to a person’s sense of dignity and sense of value as a person. Beyond a person’s physical well-being and safety from harm, well-being requires a healthy and positive environment.
C. How does the Club create a Safe Space?
The Club takes any actions that undermine the Club’s Safe Space policy very seriously and adopts zero-tolerance toward any actions that violate the Safe Spaces Act (Republic Act No. 11313). We encourage reporting any such incidents to Club personnel who will consult with our designated Safe Spaces officer and as, necessary, the House Committee, and cooperate with appropriate governmental authority. The Club may preventively suspend a member, spouse, dependent or guest’s access to the Club during the course of an investigation of a breach of this policy. It is everyone’s responsibility to report unsafe practices, make sure that persons in the Club do not put others at risk of harm so that everyone experiences the Club as a safe space.
This policy is effective upon its dissemination to the members through the Polo Post, at our bulletin boards and on our website. Thank you.
Thank you very much for your cooperation and understanding.
Truly yours,
Noel B. Barrameda
General Manager