GoodGym Chelmsford x #LetsLiftTheCurfew: Trick or Treat at the Church Hall
Helping a community organisation maintain their grounds
Location
The Old FactoryDurrant Court, Brook Street
Chelmsford
CM1 1UE
Date and time
18:30 - 20:00Support 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
Who's going
Discussion
Chelmsford
New to GoodGym?
This is a GoodGym group run, where we run to help a local community organisation and then run back.
New GoodGymers are welcome to GoodGym group runs - no one gets left behind. You're unlikely to be alone, hundreds of new people sign up every week.
Location
The Old FactoryDurrant Court, Brook Street
Chelmsford
CM1 1UE
Date and time
18:30 - 20:00Walkable
You will be able to join a group walking to the task if you'd prefer not to run.
The Old Factory
Durrant Court, Brook Street
Chelmsford
CM1 1UE
Led by Angela O'Brien
GoodGym Chelmsford Run Leader
Dark task
What to look out for
Age Restriction
GoodGym welcomes anyone aged 18 or over. If you are under 18 then you will be unable to participate in any GoodGym activity
Make sure you've read our general guidelines for safety when running and at a task.
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