GoodGym Southwark x #LetsLiftTheCurfew: Upkeep @ Salvation Army Camberwell - 🎃 + Social at The Joiners Arms 🎃

After the task we'll be heading straight to The Joiners Arms in Camberwell for some drinks. We won't be coming back to Old Spike after the task so come ready for the run this week or meet us at the task.

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: GoodGym 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.

The task this week

It's Wednesday night and we're doing it right...it's also our group run night!

In this group run, we will be running from Old Spike Peckham to Salvation Army Camberwell Corps (on Lomond Grove) to assist our contacts, who asked for our assistance to help in the upkeep of the location. This will likely mean disinfecting kids toys, cleaning, and sometimes a bit of gardening.

New to GoodGym Southwark?

Not to worry, it can be daunting coming to your first group run, but we are so welcoming whether you're just starting out as a runner or have been running for years. We welcome all!

Here's the important information - the "Where, When and What":

📍 We meet at Old Spike Peckham between 18:30-18:45. You can also meet us at the task: Salvation Army Camberwell Corps, 105 Lomond Grove, London SE5 7HG at 19:15.

⌚ 18:30-18:45 (leaving at 18:45 latest). If meeting at the task, be there for 19:15. After the task we will be heading to The Joiners Arms in Camberwell for some drinks.

✅ There will be access to Old Spike Peckham, so you can use their toilets before we head out (we won't be coming back to Old Spike after the task so there won't be bag drop this week).

🏃🏃‍♀️ After a quick warm-up, we run together as a group. If there are loads of us, there will be a back marker to ensure no one is left behind. On this run, we will be running 2.9k at a medium pace to get to the task in 20 minutes. We will spend 40-45 minutes doing the tasks mentioned above (or as much as we can).

Advisable: Bring a headtorch for the run 🔦.