GoodGym Merton x This Girl Can: Help Friends of Raynes Park Station with various jobs

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

We will be meeting with Liz (who will be wearing a pink hi-vis SWR jacket) outside outside Raynes Park station entrance on Approach Road (not the Starbucks side) just before 7pm. We will split into 2 group as those who are SWR trained will be needed to help on the platforms.

A head torch is recommended at this time of year. Also bring gardening gloves or similar if you have them. Otherwise equipment will be provided.

GoodGym will again be partnering with This Girl Can on their Let’s Lift the Curfew campaign which highlights the impact of the changing of the clocks on the safety of women exercising in the evening.

Afterwards, we’ll most likely head to the pub for a drink - feel free to join even if you are unable to make the task.