Chelmsford

Support This Girl Can and Let's Lift the Curfew

Sport England's This Girl Can campaign seeks to change how women think and feel about sport & physical activity and encourage women to be active in ways that work for them, regardless of age, background or ability.

Let’s Lift The Curfew launched in 2023 to showcase women’s stories and concerns around getting active outdoors in the darker months when the clocks go back, as well as calling on wider society to acknowledge their role in making getting active outdoors safer for women.

This year, This Girl Can is looking to go bolder and bigger, so they are supporting GoodGym to help transform the campaign into an annual movement that can raise awareness and take critical steps towards making outdoor exercise safer for women.

How to support the campaign

Read up: England Athletics have produced a guide to running in the dark for individual runners and leaders that we would recommend reading through to consider ways to keep safe in the dark.

Good Gym has also produced training for male allies to help contribute towards women’s safety at night that would be good to circulate with any male members.

Clothing considerations: Front and rear runners should ideally wear high-visibility, brightly coloured clothing. Where possible encourage members to use reflective clothing and have some members use headlamps or handheld lights for visibility.

Sharing the event: Use #LetsLiftTheCurfew in all social media related to your event. We'd love to see running leaders and members livestream and post videos and pictures from your LLTC run using the hashtag to build momentum across social media.

Tonight's session

For our spooky Halloween task we will be heading to the Church Hall to meet Dracula, sorry Stephen, for a session clearing up leaves. Fancy dress is encouraged! All abilities are welcome, we run at a leisurely pace so we can have a chat as we go. No one ever gets left behind.

It will be dark for this task so please bring a head torch if you have one. This will be an outdoor task so wear something you don't mind getting dirty.

We meet outside The Old Factory Gym. They have parking, changing facilities, toilets and lockers if you need them. You will need to bring a padlock for the locker.

Please arrive in time for us to leave promptly at 6.30

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