GoodGym Bexley x #LetsLiftTheCurfew: Helping out at Parkview Care Home

Welcome to GoodGym Bexley!

We're a friendly and sociable group who combine exercise with helping out in the local community. We meet every Wednesday evening to get active and do a physical task to help the community organisations and charities in our area.

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 and 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 after 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. So this session at Parkview Care Home - our first evening session after the clocks change - is badged #LetsLiftTheCurfew.

How to support the campaign

Read up: GoodGym has produced training for male allies to help contribute towards women’s safety at night. We're encouraging all our male GoodGymers to complete this training.

Clothing considerations: Ideally wear high-visibility, brightly-coloured, reflective clothing, with headtorches or handheld lights for visibility.

Sharing the event: We'd love to see you livestream and post videos and pictures from the run to this session using #LetsLiftTheCurfew in social media.

The task this week

This is our monthly visit to Parkview Care Home to help with practical tasks around the premises, or spend time with the residents.

This time we'll be doing craft activities with the residents. Think pom poms, or sticky tape and glitter! No artistic skills or experience required, just a willingness to get involved.

At this time of year it's great to have an indoor task, so come along and have some fun.

📍When and where

The task is at 7pm at Parkview Care Home, 105 Woolwich Road, Bexleyheath DA7 4LP. Please leave a comment below if you are making your own way there.

If you'd like to join the group run to get there, meet outside Crook Log Sports Centre, Brampton Road, Bexleyheath DA7 4HH at 6.40pm for a short warm-up. Then it's 2 km to the care home.

On our group runs we stick together and no-one is left behind, so it's ideal if you are new to running. We'll run back together afterwards or you can make your own way home from the task if you prefer.