GoodGym Richmond x #LetLiftTheCurfew: Halloween Theme: Helping maintain St. Christopher's Children's Home

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 have partnered with 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

St Christopher’s vision is for every child and young person to be safe, loved & happy, to achieve their potential and have a bright future. Their mission is to create brighter futures for children and young people. They do this by providing fostering, residential and support services where children and young people can feel safe and cared for.

More information about the exact task will be available closer to the time but please consider the streets are dark and it may be cold and raining. We go in any weather so please dress appropriately!

Starting at The Tap Tavern at 18:45, we will be leading a circa 3km run to St Christophers.

For those that need it, The Tap Tavern have kindly agreed to let us use their upstairs venue (DJKs) as a secure locked area for bag drops every Monday evening.

We will be leading the run back to The Tap Tavern after the mission.

For those that can't join us on the group run there, the meeting point is: St Christophers, 11 Rosslyn Road, Twickenham, TW1 2AR

https://www.google.com/maps/place/11+Rosslyn+Rd,+Twickenham+TW1+2AR/@51.4551569,-0.3158216,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x48760c4310d52795:0x38893af5be0db799!8m2!3d51.4551569!4d-0.3136329

Any support will be greatly appreciated by all involved! New starters always very, very welcome.

First timers are more than welcome and this is a great task to see what we are all about!

Halloween dress-up is very much encouraged, but not obligatory!