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MOVE FOR THE GIRLS RECAP: October 2024

This past August, Fast and Female announced our inaugural Move For The Girls event! Move For The Girls was  a 9-day event focused on building community to support girls in sport and physical activity, in honour of International Day of the Girl. The event had 3 core components and goals:

  1. Encouraging folks to get moving during the 9 days in support of girls in sport and physical activity and help us reach our goal of 33,000 movement minutes
  2. Hosting pop-up events to get folks moving and fundraise for Fast and Female
  3. Fundraise $20,000 in support of girls in sports and physical activity.

We are BEYOND thrilled with the success of our event and excited to share some highlights with our community!

HOW YOU MOVED

We had over 100 submissions for our Movement Minutes! Our movers move across Canada and abroad. The top 3 ways you moved were:

  • Walking
  • Running
  • Strength training/weight lifting

Our movers also loved to play sports, attend fitness classes, hike, cycle, and dance!

 

40% OF OUR MOVERS SHARED THAT THEY MOVED WITH THEIR COMMUNITY!

27% of submissions were movement minutes on their own, and 18% was a blend of group movement and individual movement.

Our top movers (groups) were:

  • MLSE Launchpad
  • Market Mall Physio & Chiro
  • Riptide Volleyball
  • Hillberg & Berk

Our top individual movers were:

  • Chantal
  • Jennifer F.
  • Lori C.
  • Adrienne G.
  • Morgyn E.

Our goal was 33,000 movements and we CRUSHED IT and conquered 123, 302 MINUTES!

 

 

fundraisers and pop-ups

We are incredibly grateful for the support of all our donors and partners that contributed financially to our event. We set a goal of $20,000 dollars to raise in support of girls in sport and, just like our movement goal, we crushed it! Thanks to our corporate donors, individual donors, pop-ups and fundraising pages, we raised $24,123.25!

Our top fundraising pages were:

  • Allie Ayre, Gym & Juice
  • The Mind Game
  • Jennifer Piasecki

Our top donors (groups) were:

  • Interac
  • Market Mall Physio & Chiro
  • Lions Club of Calgary
  • Pirhana Games
  • Elite Training Systems

Pop-ups were hosted across the country by our friends at:

  • Gym & Juice Etobicoke (ON)
  • SpinCo Toronto and Montreal (ON & QC)
  • Anytime Fitness Yorkton (SK)
  • Savy Mountain Riders (AB)
  • Summer Soul and Yoga Wellness Studio (ON)
  • Sweat Society TO (ON)
  • Move with Maral (ON)
  • lululemon Fairview Mall (ON)

Additionally, our Fast and Female Built to Run programs joined in on the fun in BC and ON!

 

 

 

 

A HUGE thank you to everyone who made our Move For The Girls event such a success. Thank you to our VIK partners – Hillberg & Berk, Rocky Mountain Soap Co, Field Design Office, and Dark Horse Studio. Thank you to our Movement Champions for spreading the word and being champions of our events. And thank you to all of you!!!

We’ll see you next year!!

 

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