This Girl Can launched Let’s Lift The Curfew in October 2023, to showcase women’s stories and concerns around getting active outdoors in the darker months. Alongside this, it called on wider society to acknowledge their role in making getting active outdoors safer for women. This year, the campaign is back with a flagship event in Manchester, kickstarting hundreds of local runs across the country.
WHAT EVENTS ARE HAPPENING?
We’ll be hosting our flagship run in partnership with GM Moving in Manchester, on the evening of Monday 28 October. The run will coincide with the clocks going back and the return of fewer daylight hours, drawing attention to the need for women’s safety when exercising in the winter months.
This year, we are also working with supporters to host additional runs across the UK, to drive awareness on a national scale. Good Gym and England Athletics’ Run Together programme will be supporting the campaign and hosting a number of events during the week beginning 28 October, that anyone can attend.
HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT LET’S LIFT THE CURFEW?
This Girl Can would like to invite you to put on your own local Let’s Lift The Curfew run, to keep raising awareness of the campaign with your community.
- We’re asking you to log a walk, run or cycle on Strava – at a time you feel safe doing so – and label it ‘Let’s Lift The Curfew’.
- You can share your Strava activity to your social media with the hashtag #LetsLiftTheCurfew and tag This Girl Can, explaining that these runs are to draw attention to the safety concerns preventing women getting active during darker months. If you’re sharing it to your Instagram Story, you can search for the ‘Let’s Lift The Curfew’ sticker in-app and add that too.
- 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 during your event.
Find out more from the campaign here
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