Let's Lift The Curfew

Whether shaped by past experiences, stories they've heard, or not feeling comfortable or confident in a particular place after dark, many women are unable to be active outdoors or use public spaces in the same way that men do. 

In fact, nearly three-quarters (72%) of women in the UK change their outdoor activity routines during winter. This impacts women’s health and wellbeing and reinforces the stubborn gender activity gap which sees half a million fewer active women than men. 

Let's Lift the Curfew challenges this reality to ensure no woman has to change where, when or how she gets active because of safety concerns.  

Since launching in 2023, Let's Lift the Curfew has grown into a nationwide movement, bringing together women, community groups, sports clubs, organisations and allies to raise awareness of the issue and create change. 

Last year, more than 13,000 people took part in over 390 activities across the country.

This year, groups across the UK are once again holding Let’s Lift the Curfew activities. 

Join the conversation by putting on your own activity or joining one of our supporters' runs from Good Gym and England Athletics across the UK, starting from the week beginning 26 October.

More information on our 2026 plans is coming soon.

In the meantime, you can read more about our 2025 campaign below.

We're continuing to raise wider cultural awareness of women’s safety issues and fears when getting active. 

You can have a conversation with women and girls to understand their experience or put on your own local Let’s Lift the Curfew event to show support within your community. 

Some ideas of things you might like to consider: 

Activities

• Is there a regular activity that is already hosted in your area that could be turned into a Let's Lift The Curfew event this winter? This could be a cycle, walk or other activity.

Community engagement

• Who are the women in your wider networks who you could invite to join your activity?
• Which communities live in your area who Let's Lift The Curfew would resonate with?

Using Strava

• 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 activities 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.

Social media

• We've produced some social media assets for you to use, organised by the different programmes used to generate each asset (Canva, PowerPoint and Photoshop), with instructions for each.
• Assets for approved This Girl Can supporters, which include the TGC logo, can be found here, while there are logo-free assets to help anyone promote their activity below.

Guides

• 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.
• GoodGym have put together a training guide on male allyship to help improve women’s safety at night, which may be helpful to share with male runners joining your run.

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